A look at our True Nature, or Prakritu; and, our Separated-From-Our-True Nature-Self, or Vikruti. In this episode I discuss: ~Our True Nature or True Self ~Everything begins on the subtle plane ~The Blueprint vs the Overlays (aka Samskaras) ~Yoga at its best is a dissolution ~Why I don’t like online quizzes ~Love as Listening ~Ayurveda […]
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Vitality Like A Goddess
The first days of January are associated with the Nativity of Inanna, Pagan Goddess of Sumer (later she appears as Ishtar in Babylon & Asherah in the Levant) Inanna is a goddess of love, beauty, fertility and war. Graced with a stream of lovers, including the ill-fated Dumuzi, she is cognate to Venus. The celebration […]
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The biggest epidemic we face right now is the sickness of our lack of loving ourselves. I hear about it all the time in my line of work. And as I read the millionth blog post about self-love, I take pause. I think a much better place to start is self-like.
Continue ReadingSilence Envelopes the Voices of Insecurity
Our culture supports individual effort and perfection. In fact, I recently read about an experiment done on two groups of people, one from the United States, and another group from Japan. Each group was shown an image that included an individual scuba diver sinking into an ocean full of fish and other marine life.
Continue ReadingHow to Fall in Love Yogi Style
If you have ever been in love, you know that there is an incredible amount of power, or shakti, behind falling into the wild rapture of delighting in someone else. There is so much power in the experience of love, in fact, that we have created a whole culture and consumer landscape around trying to get […]
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