Your first form arrived as one cell known as the heart. A spark of Life, initiated by giving and receiving the union of opposites, the catalyst of nurturing, your spirit took form and the source became seen. This one cell is the portal to absolute nurturing reality, mother source. Poetically it is the jewel in the lotus. She has unfolded like a flower in bloom as a subtle body, the movement of energy through your whole form…
Read MoreTangible Reality versus the Hoax of ‘Higher Love.’ How the medieval ‘chain of being’ is still messing up our lives, and how Yoga helps us step free of all artificial hierarchies and embrace the radiance that actually is our lives.
Read MoreOn a moonlit night in 1973, I was standing on a rooftop in Madras, thousands of miles from my home in the South Pacific. Having met with my teachers, Krishnamacharya and Desikachar, I was suddenly filled with a sense of wonder. It was sublime: a deep, spontaneous feeling of well-being, bliss, and love. I felt completely nurtured, my whole body fully integrated with everything in the natural world and with everyOne around me...
Read MoreYoga asana is simply the perfect participation in this giving and receiving (masculine and feminine, Ha-Tha), within and without, allowing the heart to be realized and the nurturing force of life to move in an unobstructed flow...
Read MoreRecently a storm of protest arose in our community against Kausthub Desikachar, who has taken legal action to copyright the word Vinyoga for his yoga business around the world. Kausthub is the son of T. K. V. Desikachar and grandson of the great Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. You may like to read Leslie Kaminoff’s post on Facebook “I teach Viniyoga… So Sue me.” Here is my response...
Read MoreMany women have told me that Marilyn’s experience is essentially their own. Born fresh and free, wild and sexual, they became inappropriately sexualized objectified, abused, manipulated, feared, threatened...
Read MoreGod and Sex are the two most powerful words in the English language. Placed together, the use of both is purified. By separating these words, each has toxified the other. Now we bring them together and define the meaning of each through a deep, yet profoundly simple convergence of understanding both...
Read MoreI recently saw a YouTube video in which the actor Jim Carrey gets really excited about having discovered Eckhart Tolle. It seems that in reading and listening to Tolle, Carrey also had a sudden “wake-up” moment, as Tolle had. He realized that he is consciousness itself, the one who is aware of every “thing,” even of his worries in all their profound insignificance...
Read MoreThe process of healing and realization is in relationship with actual others. It is in the mutual intimacy between two actual people who freely choose each other. Practice of intimate relationship, including sex, is the process of all psychological adjustment, self discovery and understanding.
Read MoreHave you ever noticed that when the mind tries to do this the sense of beauty goes? The mind can never capture beauty or any experience. It is too slow. The point is YOU are the beauty...
Read MoreHere is a teaching from the Dalai Lama: “Be careful not to mistake emptiness to be nothing ness.” He gives this to aspirants at the stage of their spiritual evolution when all partial identifications diminish and end. It is a dangerous stage in all people’s practice and just happens in life anyway...
Read MoreDear Yogini Marilyn, power and vulnerability of the wild feminine that man had no idea what to do with. It finally destroyed her bodily existence. I visited her grave to pay respects...
Read MoreMy observation is that in regular social life there is really only one thing going on. People want to get paired up, have access to sex and the comfort of sex and friendship. Once that is in place, all other relationships are of less or even worse, have no importance to them at all...
Read MoreMy teacher Mark Whitwell is fond of saying that "Yoga is neither physical nor spiritual gymnastics", and is very passionate about explaining the reasons why this is so. Focusing especially on the popular American brands of (Hatha) Yoga, Mark expounds the principles of practice and methodology of teaching that make Yoga what it really is: A devotional personalized practice and spiritual discipline of pleasure. (...)
Read MoreWhen we are truly intimate with another by name and form we no longer can tell the difference between that person and God, the absolute condition of reality. However, we have been sold however that surrender or conversion to an abstract God or Guru is the human way...
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