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Unfortunately, hard financial times often makes us feel like we need to circle the wagons, draw in our resources, and look out for our own interests. The scarcity of financial means sometimes leads to scarcity of good will toward each other. But even with tough times financially, there are perhaps more resources than you can […]

Where’s the Off Button?! In Walt Disney’s Fantasia, there’s a Mickey Mouse cartoon called the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. In this cartoon, the Sorcerer is going out for the night, probably to play D&D with his pals, and decides to put his apprentice, Mickey, in charge of cleaning up the joint. Mikey’s not too happy about this […]

Have you ever wished you could jump into another world–another reality? Maybe you already have! There is an unspoken assumption that we all agree that there exists one consistent set of true historical events–and therefore can expect that all our individual memories ought to correspond to this singular, objective reality. That’s an unspoken assumption, and […]

I’ve been blessed to have many wonderful teachers in my life. One of my most influential teachers is Judith Lasater. She is a well-respected senior teacher living in the United States, a close student of yoga great B.K.S. Iyengar, and basically invented the concept of Restore Yoga. She was a founder for The California Yoga […]

Much of the pain that we are experiencing in the world right is the result of things dying, things like institutionalized racism, bigotry, sexism, and general lack for the environment. Like the immortal “crooning” words of Bob Dylan, “the times, they are a changin’.” It’s important to remember also that much of the pain of […]

The pain we’ve been feeling this year is both a combination of things dying and other things which are being born. With awareness, we can discern the difference and find a healthy pathway forward into a new life. This has been very challenging. It’s been Covid-19 with more than a million deaths around the globe. […]

Yoga Nidra is the yoga of sleep: its goal is samadhi, experiencing yourself as Oneness and achieves this through a method of entering the Nidra mind state, the hypnagogic, in-between state, of waking and dreaming, through systematized relaxation and layered Awareness. Yoga Nidra is the meditative process of learning to identify yourself as Awareness itself. […]