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Category Archives: Yoga

Surya Namaskar for Christmas

If you’re new to the wonders of Jyotish, the Sun provides a simple but powerful practice where all can begin. Right now—with the Winter Solstice upon us—is the perfect time to begin. On the darkest day of the year, Sun reaches the most southernly point in his annual journey (from a Northern Hemisphere perspective). But Read More…

Eclipses: As above, so below

Yogis understand Sun and Moon as energies that regulate prana, the life force as it shapes itself into the physical body of bones and blood as well as the subtle body of expanding auras of consciousness. Sun and Moon—pingala and ida, male and female, day and night, Shiva and Shakti—represent the fundamental duality of existence. Read More…

A Covid Christmas

Waiting belongs to the essence of Christmas. Advent calendars, letters to Santa, puddings tucked away in cupboards, gifts wrapped and hidden under Christmas trees—all our many rituals partake of a similar theme. Long ago when the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the Mother of God—and she surrendered with perfect trust Read More…

For Summer Solstice . . . Yoga or Bhoga?

A few days ago, I received an email from Easy Jet announcing they were back in the air. Good news, from so many points of view. Yet the declaration hit me wrong, triggering a wave of sadness that stayed with me for hours. “Where will you fly to first? the headline enticed, implying a line Read More…

The Yoga of Needs and Desires

It happened. An historical event—the magnitude of which none of us have known before—just happened. Covid-19 unleashed shockwaves into nearly every aspect of ordinary life. Suddenly, habitual activity came to a sharp halt. In a matter of days, the lockdown stripped away our routines, the action patterns that define identity. Society divided into two: the Read More…

Yoga Begins with Shiva Teaching Parvati

Shiva is the Lord of Yoga. The Shastras say that the first yoga lesson ever was given by Lord Shiva to his wife Parvati, a form of Shakti. And it is through her that the great cornucopia of teachings comes to us. Shiva taught Parvati 84 asanas . . . or was that 84 crore Read More…

The Eye of the Storm on Christmas 2019

The season of magic has commenced! And story has the power to transport. Which one is captivating you? I hope something, because when we lose the ability to journey into extraordinary realms, we lose the essence of our human potential. While Santa and his reindeer prepare for their midnight flight, a pregnant virgin riding a Read More…

Why Your Action Matters

All summer I’ve been thinking of writing a blog article, but it never happened. The topic was clear to me, the desire intense, but I couldn’t get started. I could blame it on the house guests I had all summer. But the real reason, I believe, is my own uncertainty about getting the words right!  Read More…

My Hymn to Surya

The blue light of morning holds a promise. The ancient rishis knew that. But don’t just believe it, investigate for yourself. It is happening for me right now in a most serendipitous way. My effort to protect my garden here in Sardinia from wild pigs has me up each morning well before dawn, inspecting the Read More…