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The Secret To Life
This post originally appeared on PlantingWisdom.org
On Being a Grandmother!
So I started out thinking I want to write a funny piece about being a grandmother. As I pondered on what it has been like ever since the news that “you’re going to be a granny mummy” came from my daughter, the older of my two children, it became more evident how very...
You Can’t Touch This: An Interview with Trauma Healing Rebel Sue Jones
We’re going to reach a critical mass as these yoga practitioners who are also social workers, therapists, and people who work with healing populations or at-risk populations, will personally experience how yoga creates shifts in the way they see themselves and how they interact with the world.
Beyond what My Mind Can Hold
Glancing through the book “Truth vs Falsehood” by David Hawkins, I read this headline, “Cultism”…so here it is. “Cults ensnare the unwary by their specialness and false promises. Members have ‘insider’ status and a special ‘lingo’. The group leader is charismatic,...
Nothing to Make you Stay
My sister’s words bounce off the walls of the now empty room where a family used to reside like a hollowed out cavern absent of love and life. Dead. Each time a family member walks up, seeking to reconnect I turn the light on, open the space, and ready it up with hope...
Held on so Tightly
My sister’s words bounce off the walls of the now empty room where a family used to reside like a hollowed out cavern absent of love and life. Dead. Each time a family member walks up, seeking to reconnect I turn the light on, open the space, and ready it up with hope...
Great Rivers flowing to the Sea
While watching Oprah yesterday I was able to see how another girl is working to make sense of her abuse by her father. Although she also has to come to terms with her actions of killing him, she spent 18 years in prison. In prison she had no therapy, no help to sort...
Darkness is the Only Love She Knows
“The more of our self we own, the less need for enemies to embody our disowned darkness. Everything is welcomed by the soul.” Pat B. Allen. People are carrying the dark parts of us? Who we call our enemies are really folks carrying our darkness, our disowned darkness....
Eve of Construction
In 1965, a protest song written by P. F. Sloan called "Eve of Destruction" sung by Barry McGuire hit the airwaves. It was a very profound and direct song for its time. I remember listening to it and wondering how we would ever get out of the mess we were in called...
108 Sun Salutations in Battery Park, The Origin of Dharma Talks and Why Yoga is Not About Being Perfect, this past Friday on Where is My Guru
"More than about strength or flexibility, yoga is a practice of cultivating our ability to connect." -Tias Little, founder of Prajna Yoga We are delighted to let you know about our wonderful show today, Friday September 9th at 11 am EST / 8 am PST / 9 am MST...
Round Trip Travel
What do we learn when we travel? I've heard it said that we travel to to strange places only to learn it is we who are the stranger. Don't we tend to see ourselves more sharply against unfamiliar backdrops? I think so. There are several truths about travel which come...
Where Is My Guru? Welcome Tias Little to the Show Live Fri, Sept 9, 2011
We are delighted to let you know about our upcoming show this Friday September 9th at 11 am EST / 8 am PST / 9 am MST where our guest, Tias Little, Dharma speaker, advanced Ashtanga yoga practitioner, holistic wellness advocate as well as author and founder of Prajna Yoga, will join us to discuss his studies of Vipassana meditation and Zen, and his work around trauma and healing.
September Mourn: 2001- 2011
I wrote this poem right after September 11, 2001. It felt like my heart was ripped apart and 10 years later, the pain still feels so raw and exposed. I don’t understand that kind of hate. But today, I am reposting the last poem I wrote. Will I write another? I don’t...
Are the kulas of today the cults of tomorrow?
Disclaimer: This article is NOT directed at John Friend, Anusara Yoga, or any one group in particular. It is my honest and heartfelt reflection on trends I see in the yoga community in general. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-UoEFSesc&feature=player_embedded...
Carrying The Past
Two monks, an old and a young one, were walking together while practicing their daily meditation. On their walk, the two monks came to a stream, swollen by the spring rains. Both monks noticed a beautiful young woman standing on the bank of the river crying. The young...
The Mountain of Self
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” - Confucius Life often presents us with obstacles that we must overcome in order to progress further. It doesn’t matter if you lose your job, spouse, house, stricken with illness, or have an annoying...
