…concentrate upon this part and it will relax. If you do this mentally, without moving any muscle, you will notice that the part concerned obeys your command. This is complete…
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Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Common Boundaries—Yoga and Addiction
…within. The Hatha Yoga in the IY class is not just asana. It’s done in the spirit of sthira sukha (steady and comfortable). We are not striving, or competing or…
Spiritual Alchemy
…I’ve never seen any lotus flower coming out of a body when you dissect it! Even though they say there are six lotuses along the spine, only blood comes out…
The Highest Love, The Highest Realization
…know what I want, if you would like me to have it, I know it will come. If you don’t think I should have it then you won’t let it…
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Pop Artist Yogi
…do?” He replied, “I’m a monk from India. I come from a tradition of monks. My teacher was a Swami and we come from lineage and tradition from India that…
Sacred Resistance: Circle of Protection
…Five different spiritual communities are observed, exploring how, spirituality—individual and communal, formal and informal—helped shape these grassroots coalitions. We focus here on the successful campaign that blocked Dominion Energy’s proposed…
How To Have a Successful Meditation Practice
…consistent meditation practice. After interviewing several Ashram and community members about their practice, I found some common threads. There seem to be five necessary ingredients in the process of developing…
Wynne Paris: Love + Light—A Remembrance
…even asked Michael Lang, one of the original Woodstock co-founders, to come on board to help vision Lovelight. And Wynne reached out to my Yoga community (Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville/Integral Yoga) to…
The Vibrating Subtle Body
…religious sects, when a person evolves in spiritual pursuits and comes to a higher consciousness, that soft spot is said to open again and the communication with the higher level…
Just Be As You Are
…you think all that? Because you have already complicated your life so much that you don’t want to accept simplicity. So, to satisfy complicated people we give out complicated medicine:…
Forgiveness: Freeing the Heart from the Past
…breathe, and moves us one step closer to experiencing the natural flow of compassion that arises when blockages are removed. Yoga teaches us to love everyone simply because we share…
Yoga Mind
…habits and come to understand that we are all connected. Yogic sages, people who were dedicated to helping others attain a higher level of living, created a combination of breathing…
Let’s Make Every Day Earth Day
…companies have begun to introduce electric cars. In Europe, already big car companies there are making electric cars. It’s not new. Several decades earlier, they even made sample cars to…
Facing Death and Loss
…anything. You utilize things in order to serve well. We come empty‑handed and go empty‑handed. In the meantime, if things come, enjoy them. Things are simply loaned for our use,…
The Practice of Enlightenment: An Interview with Chip Hartranft
…comes in through your consciousness, it’s taking a very different path than the one that comes in through my consciousness—so, two people never see the same thing. But the world’s…
How I Came to Paramahansa Yogananda
…written to tell them I’d like to come out there and be one of the residential students. It was two days before Christmas when I arrived, unannounced on their doorstep….
Steps on the Spiritual Path
…keep the company of other spiritual seekers. The others can help you if you make a mistake. That’s called satsanga or good company. Satsanga itself, can go a long way…
Kirtan and the Inner Muse
…Nobel Prize acceptance speech, said that compassion is the most important thing for a writer. That makes complete sense to me. Compassion is reaching out beyond ourselves. I have written…
The Yoga of Patanjali and Money
…so your purchases can reflect your values. If you boycott a company’s products, drop the company a note or e-mail explaining your action (you can probably e-mail them from their…