I’ve always joked around, saying that sometimes I’m so hardheaded that God has to hit me with a hammer so I can see and hear what she/he is trying to say. COVID and quarantine was most certainly a hammer for all of us. Darkness cannot exist without light. Darkness, fear and anger are the propulsive forces of the separated self. Darkness is there to show you, me, us the discomfort in separation Continue Reading
“Wake Up Calls”
A wake-up call is any energetic event prompting you from one state of consciousness to another. Have you ever been driving late at night and you are so drowsy your eyelids feel like they gained 5 lbs., and all the sudden you get a bolt of energy. Or you are in a rush in the morning on your way to school or work, and a deer, fox, squirrel or other animal darts in front of your car so you slam Continue Reading
How Emotions Work: Spring Cleaning with Yoga!
When we are in love or in a state of love, all is well. Harmony, abundance and joy exude from our pores. Our sensate memory of pain, suffering and loss recede into the background of our consciousness. They seem to magically fade away at least for a period of time. And, although they may still occupy an apartment in our resident temple, they are not blocking off the entrance doorway. The same Continue Reading
Good Intentions Unconsciously Causing Harm
A while back, I wrote a blog on compassion and finding God through yoga, and searched for a photo to represent the essence of the article. I choose a picture of the Dalai Lama. Apparently that image which was freely accessible on the web needed to be paid for. I was surprised when I received a letter notifying me that I owed the License Compliance Services of Dalai Lama money for using this image. Continue Reading
Practice Kindness
I remember the first time I heard about the cycle of birth and death, known as samsara in Indian philosophy. For those of you unfamiliar, it means that we as humans are destine to death and rebirth of life in the material world, bound by our samskaras (cellular manifested energy created through the false perception of ego, attachment, aversion, fear, ignorance) and vasanas. Liberation is bestowed Continue Reading
Chakras Communicate Important Messages: Yoga, The Path to Divine Self
Does your teacher trigger you? How about your mother, father, husband, wife, friend, neighbor or sibling? Emotional triggers are energetic communication. They are based on a sensation – feeling – emotion that is attached to our subtle body (spiritual consciousness). These are charged messages from your spiritual body fueling emotion to be unlocked, let out and set free. Charged responses have a Continue Reading
How Yoga Helps Us Forgive
Godly love is the ability to forgive over and over again. Really forgive, not taking it personally, detaching, truly understanding the other person’s perspective (being able to fully put yourself in their shoes with total empathy). It’s about total realization of their actions, moving through your anger, hurt, grief, sadness, loss, etc. and letting the attachment to those emotions, feelings and Continue Reading