Year: 2010

Your Emotional Type

Your Emotional Type

Dealing with emotions effectively isn’t about suffering them away for feeling them less. It’s about establishing a balance, shoring up those areas where we’re most vulnerable, and making the most of our natural strengths. The key lies in understanding your natural style of relating.

Listening Within

Listening Within

Through the day, we regularly pass from personality to personality.  We can go from Caretaker to Judge to Striver in a flash. Because of the speed and fluidity of this process, we don’t usually attend to the ways in which this inner community conducts its business.

Take a Deep Breath

Take a Deep Breath

What’s the big deal about breathing?  We do it all the time, right? Yes and no. Pranayama, or the yogic art of breath control, focuses on breathing consciously.It means treating the breath like another yoga pose. According to B.K.S. Iyangar, on e of the great…

The Benefits of Yoga

The Benefits of Yoga

Yoga is an age-old practice with roots dating back 5,ooo years.  There are many forms of yoga and all share an attempt to create a state of blissful enlightenment, called ananda. On the way there specific forms of breathing and exercise encourage physical purification. While…

What Does It Mean To Be Self-Led?

What Does It Mean To Be Self-Led?

At the core of everyone is a Self which is the seat of consciousness. This is our source of empowerment. From birth, this Self has all the necessary qualities of compassion, perspective, curiosity, acceptance and confidence to lead through life.

Surrender

Surrender

Ishvara pranidhana, or surrender, presupposes that we are part of something larger – call it God, spiritual energy, or life. It is believed this force is greater than us and wants us to thrive. If you think of this “energy” as nature, it’s easy to…

Mindfulness 101

Mindfulness 101

Mindfulness brings vivid awareness to your behavior, your being and your past. It give you a chance to rework the beliefs, feelings and images that help determine who you are and provides a grounded yet spacious container for deeper self-understanding.

Self-Study

Self-Study

Self-study, or svadhyana, is about knowing our true identity. It requires us to look at what’s happening inside. The world and others reflect back to us what we are seeing, not what is actually there. In other words, people and events don’t disappoint us, our…

I’m Growing to Thrive

I’m Growing to Thrive

Certain individuals and groups are engaged in the struggle to rediscover our world. They are struggling against terror, politics, despair, loss, limitations, disease, cruelty, and loneliness. To some the struggle is to find God, to others it is to deny God. Eyes open or closed, those who are searching can still see the light.

Self-Discipline

Self-Discipline

The discipline of Tapas molds us into someone of great depth and profoundness. Can we stand the heat of being dismantled and changed forever? Can we prepare ourselves daily through our practice, our staying power, and our choices? Our choices will decide.