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Learning From a Great Yoga Teacher About Chakras
I have had the good luck to be friends with and taught by someone who is an extrodrinary yoga teacher. Thomas Amelio [Shivananda] taught me about Advaita yoga in the 1980′s. A long time monk who is now a layperson. Currently a teacher in the New York City area you can check out his site [...]
Crossing the Abyss that Separates Us From Ourselves
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery. ~ Thomas Merton
Life as Guru Leading to Transformation
There are moments when life has a will of its own. Those are not the moments I love when they happen. They are, however, the moments that have marked my ongoing evolution. I’m grateful for the years of ashram life that invited me to see everything, and everyone, as a potential teacher. Not always easy [...]
Lessons from a Tornado
Content in the post contributed by “Awakening” a frequent commentator on the blog. I added the flowers. We all need beauty when life is hard. None of us are immune from disasters and difficulties. There seem to be times in life when the difficulties are on the “humungous” side. The natural disasters that have [...]
Praying
I came back from teaching a workshop in Ireland to hear, and see, the devastation one single tornado brought to Joplin, Missouri. I thought of Japan and the devastation there. I felt in my body the impulse to block all this suffering out. What is there to do? Give money, yes. I felt the helplessness [...]
My Blackberry’s Not Working!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJFwVOW0Nww] Great fun to watch! Thanks for sending it on, Jane.
Embodied Memories: The Work of Trauma in Art
My cousin – and artist – Kristin Malin sent me the information about the Russian dissident Boris Sveshnikov who is featured in an exhibit at the Zimmerli Art Museum [Rutgers University.] Take a look at the painting above. I’m struck by Boris Sveshnikov’s image of a leaf less tree emerging from the cold ice. At the top is the [...]
Quote to Ponder
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” ~~Mother Teresa
Gita Mehta: A River Sutra
The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably. ~Gita Mehta A River Sutra A gorgeous read I’m soaking up now. What do you suggest for my next book?