Last Friday I arrived at class and saw that it was not there – my famed black bag was not in my trunk. I searched throughout my car and my bag was nowhere. The time had come to begin class so there was no music in class
Read more →Podcast: Samskara-Connection Meditation Time: 13 min 56 sec This meditation is all about connection. Being away of what keeps us connected as well as what keeps us from being connected. To this end, we also explore samskara theory. This is a very practical session for all seekers
Read more →You’re driving down the road, and you see one of those Lay’s Potato Chip delivery trucks. On the side of the truck it says, “…you can’t eat just one.” Do you reflect more deeply, or just move on to the next piece of external stimuli. Upon further
Read more →As a kid I was not goal-oriented, and I was even less so in my early twenties. I was – well – meandering. Around that time, I made my first India trip – on bicycle(!), along with my brother. We made the big haul from China over
Read more →With the 2012 Summer Olympic games underway this past weekend in London, it seems an appropriate time to reflect on why yoga should not become an Olympic event. Don’t get me wrong, I am not against the Olympics per se. Here the only point is that yoga
Read more →The following historical statement shines a bright light on one of the factors that shaped our spiritual heritage. Here is Lord Macaulay’s address to the British Parliament in 2 February, 1835: “I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one
Read more →This weekend while reviewing karma-samskara theory with a friend – (what else are weekends for!?!) – one key point arose. The teaching was that one must undergo the reaction for all bad and good actions independently. That means a good act does not cancel out a bad
Read more →Spring is upon us – it officially begins tomorrow, March 20. Though the weather has been quite springlike for some time now. One of the themes of spring is cleaning or purification. Often we do this with our doors and windows – the ol’ spring cleaning. Since
Read more →The banyan tree is commonly found in much of the Indian subcontinent. As such the yogis have given some great metaphorical teachings based on the unique structure of this most remarkable tree. First a few lines from Wikipedia: Older banyan trees are characterized by their aerial prop
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