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Fearlessness

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Greetings Students! This season we are contemplating the yoga of Fearlessness In 1941, President Roosevelt gave his famous “Four Freedoms” speech, proclaiming four basic freedoms that people … [Read more...] about Fearlessness

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School of Recognition

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Your Yoga Tantra Newsletter Greetings Yoga Sangham This month we were contemplating and practicing thanksgiving, delight and recognition. There is a whole philosophical school of Yoga Tantra … [Read more...] about School of Recognition

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The Heart

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Your Yoga Newsletter on the Heart Greetings Yogis and Yoginis! This month we have been exploring the topic of the Heart. The heart has many layers of significance in the sphere of Yoga … [Read more...] about The Heart

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The Void

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Greetings Dear Friends and Sangham Some notes on our topics and the central theme examined this month: THE VOID Void or emptiness is important to both Buddhist and Yoga philosophy. The … [Read more...] about The Void

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Intention

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Greetings Beloved Yoga practitioners! This month we contemplated the theme of Intention At the start of the New Year we mobilized our yoga practice to examine the very nature of intent and to … [Read more...] about Intention

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Moksha: Liberation, the fourth goal of life

“Of all the instruments of emancipation, Love is supreme.” So wrote the 9th century yogic sage, Shankaracharya who spread the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta: the doctrine of unity. Moksha is the

The Depression of Arjuna

We were listening to the Bhagavad Gita being chanted, and i put it on for a reason. The Bhagavad Gita is pretty much all you would ever really need to follow the path of Yoga. Its name means the “Song

 

The Glance of Shiva

The Glance of Shiva To the Trinity be praise!God is music, God is lifeThat nurtures every creature in its kind.Our God is the song of the angel throngAnd the splendor of secret ways,Hid from all

Life, Death and Immortality

Yama and Nachiketa On Tues. we were talking about death, resurrection, and immortality because it comes up a lot in spiritual texts, in yogic texts and of course in the Easter story. Also, because

Pranayama: Breathing Techniques for calming the mind

Breathing Awareness The core of meditation techniques the world over is breathing awareness. Awareness of the breath refines the mind and leads it into a state of meditation. You will find that

 

The skill of relinquishing

There’s an article in today’s Science Times about kidneys that we may find interesting from a yogic point of view. The kidneys filter impurities from the blood, impurities which are then eliminated. Yoga itself is a purgatory or purifying movement and practice. So we do yoga to purify, eliminate toxins physical, mental and even spiritual. […]

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Om as Guru

One who chants Om, which is the closest form of Brahman, approaches Brahman. This liberates one from the fear of the material world. – Rig Veda, circa 1500 BC Rare is the yogic text or scripture that does not extoll Om as a method of Self realization. You will find there that Om is sometimes […]

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Intention

You will find that intention on liberation is the means to it. When this intention is full no other means is necessary. But when intention is weak what is the use of a thousand means? Therefore the principal means to liberation is intention alone.” – Tripura Rahasya. (date unknown) There is an interesting story of […]

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