SPIRITUALITY
is your peace dependent on your brain?
cultivate more peace by first understanding your brain! Yoga is a science. The more you practice and the more you study, the more this will...
yoga and the twelve-step path – a book review
Sometimes people think of yoga as a room full of really flexible people putting themselves into seemingly impossible positions. However, it’s generally not yoga that...
stepping into the present moment
you can retreat every day The human mind perpetually precipitates thought-forms in reference to the past or future. Just as a cow chews its cud,...
the red rock rishis – the beginning is near & lotus eyes
music review Sitting atop the magical red rocks of Sedona, with two releases blasted beautifully into the ether, the Red Rock Rishis have carved a...
meditation outside the box
As a yogi, manoeuvring in modern society, I have had many clients confess to their intimidation of the word. Often meditation conjures up images of...
emergency room meditations
Yesterday was my first (and hopefully only) time as a patient in ER. It was a bad case of the flu. Six days of chills,...
mindful, conscious eating
being present at the table Not so long ago, I asked my students to think about how they would treat themselves differently if they really...
meditation for busy people
No time. No privacy. No quiet. As a meditation instructor, this is what I most frequently hear from parents who want or even desperately need...
expanding your yoga practice
Expanding Your Yoga Practice Expanding Growing Improving Chopra Yoga is the union of the body, mind and spirit – the union of your individuality with...
why i can’t do yoga, the third of 3 excuses
Let me begin here by saying that my respect for another’s politics, religion or belief system runs deep. I believe that we need a higher...
patience is a yogi’s virtue
Too often we tend to be results-oriented, neglecting the actual process of life and impatiently wanting everything to have been completed yesterday. We live in...
truthfulness
satya is now and everywhere When I was just a pup, I used to tell little fibs a lot: fibs to get more food, or...
white wedding dress meaning
a glance into the spiritual significance of popular wedding traditions These days, less and less people belong to a formal religion, and therefore less and...
into great silence / die grosse stille
“Only in complete silence, one starts to hear. Only when language resigns, one starts to see.” The Carthusian Order is reputed as one of the...
sweet demotion
oceans of eleven – chapter two “What is that, yoga?” – Dude, The Big Lebowski Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung ventured beyond the sexual teachings...
letting go of resistance
One of the hardest lessons we face in a physical body is learning how to be fully present with what is. Yet Eastern gurus –...