Beyond Tribal: On Empathy, Wholeness, Yoga & Vedanta [books, J. Rifkin, video]

    Beyond Tribal: On Empathy, Wholeness, Yoga & Vedanta [books, J. Rifkin, video]

    Somewhere beyond right and wrong there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi For some years now I have been pondering ‘identity’ as I study and seek to practice Yoga and Vedanta. Identity meaning sense of self – in community, in society, in relation to spirit and divinity, in relation to our apparent [...]

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    Top 5 Tips to Jumpstart your Home Practice

    We all want to, but it just doesn’t seem to get off the ground, or out of the bed. An essential pillar in yoga is congruence in heart and mind, thought and action. There is what Swami Dayananda Saraswati calls the ‘knower-doer split.’ I know I want a home yoga practice, I know it is [...]

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    Practice: Just because... appetite

    Practice: Just because… appetite

    ” ‘For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner,’ wrote Pablo Casals in his memoir, Joys and Sorrows. ‘I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel [...]

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    book: strong recommend. Good Story, Yoga Sutras and Great Teachings - "How Yoga Works"

    book: strong recommend. Good Story, Yoga Sutras and Great Teachings – “How Yoga Works”

    I am reading a wonderful book a friend brought to me when I was in the hospital. The book, “How Yoga Works” has inspired me greatly in practice and kept students in mind as well. This book is perhaps the best I have ever read on Yoga, due to its genuine accuracy and truth of [...]

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    Healing & Teaching Again…

    Healing Schedule, plans for teaching again...
    Healing Schedule, plans for teaching again…

    [updated July 9th, 2010] As many of you know, I was diagnosed with a curable cancer in mid May and a…

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    Beyond Belief: Yoga & Vedanta are for Understanding
    Beyond Belief: Yoga & Vedanta are for Understanding

    It really struck me one year at Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s place when he said “Vedanta …

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    Beyond Tribal: On Empathy, Wholeness, Yoga & Vedanta [books, J. Rifkin, video]
    Beyond Tribal: On Empathy, Wholeness, Yoga & Vedanta [books, J. Rifkin, video]

    Somewhere beyond right and wrong there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi For some…

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    Book & Film

    'Queen of the Sun' a film about bees, crisis and hope
    ‘Queen of the Sun’ a film about bees, crisis and hope

    Taggart Siegel, an old yoga buddy, has a new film about the current bee collapse, beekeepers and the…

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