Aurobindo said, "All Life is Yoga".
Life’s Not Yoga …or it is? is Jacqui Burnett's life story and a testament to dealing with life off the mat when faced with life’s chaos and multiple traumas.
The Journey of Life Can be Chaotic. How do we make sense of it?
She was born into a perfect family, but by age 16 Jacqui Burnett wants to kill her father.
Decades later Jacqui believes she's left her turbulent childhood past and the trauma of multiple near-death experiences behind her.
On the surface, she has everything she’s ever dreamed of – a solid education, success, and a wonderful husband.
What Jacqui doesn’t know is that she’s about to lose everything.
She was about to step into a board meeting but instead she slid from her office chair and cowered under her desk, sobbing. As managing director, she was meant to announce a year of outstanding results; instead, she was paralysed.’
In a desperate search for answers, Jacqui travels to America. Alone in the Rocky Mountains, her life starts unravelling and the truth of her chaotic childhood begins to emerge.
Amidst confused attempts to find meaning, Jacqui has to face death one more time, along with an avalanche of unexpected obstacles, before rising from the ashes to heal.
“What I found amazing about Life’s Not Yoga, is that many people write a memoir and tend to sugarcoat their role in the story, while painting other people with a bit of a tar brush. Jacqui Burnett does not do this and is open and honest about the times in her life when she does not come across looking so great.” – Janice Leibowitz – 101.9 ChaiFM
This memoir is for anyone who has battled with emotional abuse, financial loss, depression, heartbreak, divorce, burnout, PTSD, anxiety, or fibromyalgia, looking for understanding on how to heal themselves.
Life’s Not Yoga … Or Is It by Jacqui Burnett
Jacqui Burnett is an adventurer, both in journeys of the Spirit and in the world of financial strategy. Raised in South Africa, she is qualified in business studies, which has enabled her to help numerous businesses achieve their strategic and financial goals. However, Jacqui has always pursued a parallel interest in spirituality, which has guided her into her writing, podcasting, speaking, and workshop-facilitating careers.
Inspired by her discoveries during her journey, Jacqui created a platform called The Dare to Be Love Journey. Here, she shares the inspirational insights gifted to her from Universal Wisdom. Additionally, Jacqui shares her personal stories of trauma and healing from depression, PTSD, suicide ideation, anxiety, chronic fibromyalgia and migraines.
Jacqui has many passions. Her passion for awakening the Spiritual Revolutionary within others is the most prominent of these. Jacqui hosts workshops to guide others in meeting their Individual Spirit and teach them how to integrate their Spirit into their body, mind, and soul self-healing practices.
As an impassioned student of life, Jacqui continues to practise and promote a Spirit-led life of courage, kindness, compassion and love.
Jacqui has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UNISA and an MBA from the University of Witwatersrand, including a semester abroad at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Erasmus. In addition, Jacqui is a certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West and trained as a yoga teacher with Yoga Tree, acquiring both these certifications in San Francisco, California.
Life's Not Yoga …or is it?, is Jacqui's first published book.