Article source: Huffington Post CLICK HERE Not everyone loves meditation, but most people generally see the benefit of quieting the mind. I was surprised when a yoga student in a workshop I was leading told me very passionately that she thought meditation was part of a brainwashing cult. As she launched into a tirade…
Read MoreThe darkness is the light itself—not a pathway that leads to the light, but the essence of the light itself. The beautiful postures of yoga are not an end, in and of themselves. The real teaching of the path of yoga is to use asana as a way to gain perspective on deeper life patterns….
Read MoreThe sound of a whimpering dog always breaks my heart. If there is anything I can do to alleviate the suffering of an animal, I will do it. So when I heard a little puppy’s desperate screams while teaching yoga I felt obliged to go and see what kind of animal abuse was being done….
Read MoreOn my recent trip to Mysore to continue my journey as a student of yoga I noticed that there were more people than ever in the Guided Intermediate class on Sunday. There are no words for the awesome feeling of seeing a room full of more than 50 people moving gracefully through the challenging postures…
Read MoreEach moment we have the possibility of being fresh and new, but very often we live of our lives from a habit pattern established in the past. Once these patterns are established the flow of human consciousness gets organized into certain repetitive patterns. The Sanskrit word for these repetitive patterns is a samskara. These are…
Read MoreThe skylike nature of mind is balanced by the oceanic depths of the unconscious. The practice of yoga is like a deep sea dive to the bottom of the ocean floor that brings the sunken, hidden wrecks of the past up to be revealed in the clear light of day. Teaching yoga means keeping the…
Read MoreWhen the company General Electric first developed light bulbs they believed that it was absolutely impossible to create a bulb that glowed uniformly. They had the science to back their limited belief and so it was “truth” for them. Every new engineer was given the task to create a uniformly glowing bulb with the knowledge…
Read MoreThe inner light of yoga is like a scared fire. It is the true heart and spirit of the practice. While potent and powerful the magic of the practice is also vulnerable and tenuous. The sacredness of the practice can die so easily if we do not tend to it every day. Amidst the cynic’s…
Read More“Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” There are flashes of insight that supersede the accumulated personality of who we believe we are. These transcendental moments give us access to the eternality of love and the limitless potential of human spirit. The practice of yoga…
Read MoreThe glowing heart of the sun rises and sets each day and belongs to no one. The Earth is cut up into segments of private property and national boundaries but no one owns the deed to the whole planet, except maybe all of us collectively unless we just have it on loan from future generations….
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