The Divine Ascension
Self-Reliance vs. Self-Reliance
Free Yourself from Emotional Reaction
What is it to “concentrate a new way”? It means focusing your mind in a new direction, and putting a lot of energy behind your re-focused mind. But there’s another important aspect, one that I learned through experience.
Ways To Cultivate Deep Feeling
Feeling is a response that’s awakened in us as we focus our awareness on something: a person, an event, a circumstance. It’s a way of gaining understanding, and it’s very different from the way the intellect understands. Feeling understands via relationship and, in its higher expressions, from the inside; it is centered in the heart.
Living in the Spine
When yogis speak of living in the spine, they’re referring to the “astral spine,” the primary channel for life-force in the body.
Are You Dissatisfied with Your Sadhana?
“What’s wrong with my meditations?” I asked myself. “Why isn’t there more focus, more joy? My attitude had been wrong: I had been meditating based on what I would get out of it.
Teaching the Art of Discovery – Part 3: Discovery via Challenges
Continued from Teaching the Art of Discovery Part 2 As we go deeper into this series, I now want to offer some broader thoughts about how to refresh your approach to teaching, make your classes more magnetic and rewarding for your students, and increase your own satisfaction and magnetism. In recent years, I’ve seen that some teachers let Ananda Yoga … Read More
Teaching the Art of Discovery – Part 2: Teaching More-Advanced Asanas
Continued from Teaching the Art of Discovery Part 1 . Continuing with the topic of how to keep your classes fresh and interesting—to nurture your students’ spirit of discovery rather than merely teaching a constant stream of new poses—I’ll now focus on strategies for teaching more-advanced asanas. (In the next part of this series, I’m going to suggest a change … Read More