Volunteer for Life
I wrote a post with this same title after the last time I volunteered for Bhava Spandana, while the experience was still fresh in body, mind, emotions, and energies. This…
June 15 and 22 – hosted by Nick
I'll be out of town for the next two weeks, volunteering at the indescribably intense Bhava Spandana program at the Isha Institute in Tennessee. Many thanks to Nick Dedenbach for…
June 8 – Chanting
A small group again this week, and so we focused on a particular interest of the group: Kriya Yoga. Kriya can be taken as referring to internal action, complementary to…
June 1
A small group this week. We had a discussion and then a recorded guided meditation by Sadhguru. An interesting bit of feedback on this guided meditation came later: the meditation…
What’s Holding You Back?
Teacher asks me "What's holding you back?". Immediately I feel that familiar shock of surprise and recognition. It's like he just pointed at the elephant in the room and asked…
May 25 – Breathing Practices
The past week has been eventful in my life experience. Many signs and indications that change is coming, change in identity and how we present ourselves to the world. These…
May 18 – Identity
Topics this week include: What are we to do with our lives?Swami Sankarananda's recent discussions on svadharma have been useful. In this video there is a discussion of the Bhagavad…
May 11 – Basics of Breath
This week we had a small group and so we tried some new formats. There was a period of discussion and introspection on our selves and our egoic experiences. We…
May 4 – Let it Go
This week's meditation comes from a number of stories of difficulties handling changes happening in our life situations. Have you recently struggled with some issue in your life, perhaps something…
April 27 – Sitting and Breathing
This week I'm inspired by the past several weeks' traveling. I had difficulty maintaining my normal daily meditation practices. Some of the pranyama practices were difficult to do in Sedona,…