Jun 21, 2024 | Practical Philosophy, Whole Life Yoga
It was Sunday morning, late 1957, in Junction City, Kansas. I was walking home from visiting a friend in a part of town I had never gone. I was 16 years old. While walking by an old building, I was suddenly struck by powerful singing and piano playing coming from the building. I then recognized the building as a church. The music froze my body in place. I was stunned by the passion, power, beauty and rhythm of the music. Tears began streaming down my cheeks as the singing continued. I lost consciousness of ‘self’ in the music. Later, I understood that I had undergone the experience of ‘being moved by the Spirit’.
Jan 22, 2024 | Practical Philosophy, Whole Life Yoga
This is one of the things I love in India, the beauty of the people, the authenticity with which people do their work. For example, one time in my early years in Mysore I needed a button sewing on a shirt. I had no needle or thread but I knew there was a tailor around the corner. I took my shirt to him. He looked at me like I was some brutish fool and indicated that I should go up the street. He was a tailor of women’s clothing, and he was not about to desecrate his self-respect by robbing custom from a gents’ tailor.
Nov 21, 2023 | Whole Life Yoga, Yogic Movement
Whole Life Yoga Immersion: Review You can recognize a good yoga workshop by the fact that its effect gradually matures in you. That’s why I’ve waited until now to give my review of YOGA IMMERSION.If I had to choose one word that would sum it all up, it would be...
Sep 9, 2023 | Musings, Practical Philosophy, Whole Life Yoga, Yoga Sūtra
On Truth and Trauma – with reference to the Yoga Sūtra Atha yogānuśāsanam – and now ensues yoga. So begins the Yoga Sūtra. What does yoga ensue from? From the knowing that we do not know, from the acknowledging that we are partially (and significantly)...
Sep 6, 2023 | Most Popular, Whole Life Yoga
Yoga Immersion Q&A Q. What brought you into yoga? A. There are many ways that I could answer this and I could write or speak at length, but to get to the heart of it: pain and desire. I was in pain, I’m a wounded human. I love this world, I love life, I love the...
