Rishika
Fall fire: Yoga Ignition online yoga course is now live
Greetings yogis! Fall is when we put fresh fire into our practice. Classes are back on in El Sargento for those of you who are local...
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Rishika
Mar 19, 20211 min read
Everything is connected
I just love this little film (scroll down) featuring my "soul sister," artist Shelley Hocknell Zentner of South Lake Tahoe. Although we...
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Mar 18, 20212 min read
Breaking: There is nothing wrong with you after all
I once led a group meditation in which I invited the participants to contemplate the notion that because they were expressions of the...
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Mar 9, 20216 min read
Seeing what Is
The very first lesson in A Course in Miracles states: Nothing I see means anything. And your first thought is probably, "How can that be?...
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Mar 8, 20212 min read
The ‘Dark Side’ of meditation
This is from another Quora response which has gotten more than 500 upvotes thus far. The original question was “What is the dark side of...
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Mar 4, 20212 min read
What happens when a person reaches enlightenment? Pros vs. cons?
What are the pros and cons of enlightenment? For one thing, you won’t have to ask that question.
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Sep 17, 20202 min read
Opening the heart in troubled times
Does it all feel like bleakness and grasping and doom? I hear you, and I know how challenging it is to stay connected to our hearts when...
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Aug 29, 20201 min read
Featured meditation on Insight Timer
Featured on Insight Timer: Breaking Through Limiting Thoughtforms guided meditation.
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Jul 28, 20205 min read
A meditation on death and grieving
I had another encounter with death yesterday. Its presence was already palpable, what with hundreds of thousands dead and dying from the...
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Jul 12, 20201 min read
Gravity (a poem)
One happy outcome of yogic practice is that as we clear away our inner clutter, it makes space for Logos to shine through.
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Jun 2, 20204 min read
Which side are you on, anyway?
We cannot defeat the demons of others any more than we can "defeat" our own. However, we can acknowledge that we contain them.
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May 19, 20206 min read
Fighting our reflections
Not only do we fight ourselves by criticizing our literal reflections, we despise those parts of ourselves that other people model to us.
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Apr 27, 20204 min read
Pranayama? But I already know how to breathe...
Pranayama is not just one of the eight limbs of Raja Yoga, it is the platform upon which we build three others: dharana, dhyana & samadhi.
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Rishika
Oct 4, 20191 min read
Longing (a poem)
Once upon a time I envisioned myself as a poet, but poetry is a notoriously poverty inducing profession so I pursued journalism instead...
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Sep 10, 20193 min read
Is the world going through an Awakening?
A spiritual Awakening is still a fairly rare thing ... and if that term is not familiar to you, I encourage you to visit Jim Tolles'...
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Aug 26, 20193 min read
A dark and stormy night (of the soul)
My apologies for the extended hiatus between blog posts. I have been hunkered down in Mexico riding out the proverbial "dark night of the...
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