For 25 years, I’ve lived and worked at the intersection of the Sacred & the Strategic: weaving together the intellectual rigor of law and the lived wisdom of Śaiva Tantra.

This synthesis has always been my orientation and my siren-song. And its absence—the false split between the sacred & the strategic at the root of our socio-economic system—is the driving force of my work. 

I graduated from Princeton University in 1996, where I studied Early Modern European History: the time during which Europe transitioned from feudalism to capitalism—and the false split between the sacred & the strategic originated, germinated and took root. I then graduated from Boston University School of Law in 2001, where I was a member of the Law Review, and by happy (or not-so-happy) accident, I began practicing yoga asana & meditation, and my life as a lawyer and as a spiritual practitioner became inextricably intertwined. 

I practiced law in Big Law (in securities fraud litigation) and at two United States Courts of Appeals (researching and recommending to judges how to decide cases on appeal) before starting my own law practice in 2009 focused on the trademark, copyright & contract needs of thought leaders. 

Practicing law had always been an awkward and partial fit—but I was an achiever, and I had experienced fairly smooth, easy (and arguably exceptional) success. I never doubted my ability to learn what I needed to know, implement it, and achieve the result that I wanted. That’s the way I’d thought the world worked for me. My experience of owning my own business—and my pursuit to integrate all of my creative, spiritual and professional self into my body of work—was a complete unwinding of that illusion. (You can listen to my story here.)

I am a practitioner, initiate & lineage holder in a lineage of Śaiva Tantra (a source tradition of yoga). My relationship with it—like every intimate dance with the Sacred—has been a love affair. Tantra is an oral, experiential—and revelatory—tradition of spiritual practice. It is mysticism. And so is its method of training. I was not taught about tantra. I was taught through tantra. Led for more than 20 years by curiosity, devotion and awe (and if I’m completely honest, at times, arrogance)—and by a living guru and teachers, as it applied to my own life, one piece at a time.

I have received multiple initiations into this work—explicitly from living teachers and mystically from ascended masters. I’ve studied Sanskrit, voice, sound, sacred mythology and iconography, the sacred texts of the Devī Māhātmyam and the Bhagavad Gita on dharma, karma and the nature of the Self, and modern neurological research on mantra and spiritual practice generally. But overwhelmingly, I was taught by example, by experience—and at the subtle levels of non-audible speech—until I became intimate with these sacred, universal patterns of wisdom. (You can listen to my training & experience here.)

My law practice became a practicum—a messy, profound, maddening, and delightful immersion and incubator. Over 15 years, I integrated law, spiritual practice & sound business strategy to help my clients create the structural coherence that guided the flow of money & clients through their business and preserved their & their team’s capacity—and to transform how I structured my practice, how I showed up to work with clients, and how I understood, talked about & engaged with the law itself.

It was not an abstract, conceptual spirituality—detached from the everyday experience of life and business. Nor did it ignore sound strategy—and internalize every question as a personal spiritual failing. Rather, it related directly to the practicalities, recognized strategy as sacred—and resulted in a powerful clarity of truth that transformed the practicalities in surprising and relieving ways. 

I translated that experience into sacred & strategic business advising, beginning in 2013. This work alchemizes. It is a synthesis of spiritual practice, sacred mythology, intellectual property strategy, business model design, and more than 20 years of experience.