Speeding into Extreme Growth
We are speeding along and ending another year of extreme growth and change. What have we learned? What will we bring to 2022? Have we stayed on track with our goals and intentions? There is a learning curve of how to tend to oneself and others during this time of dismemberment and simultaneous rememberment. Mostly…
Healing the Spirit
The missing link…we need to Heal the Spirit According to the National Institutes of Health Research, 40 percent of Americans (about 120 million) are regularly using complementary alternative medicine today. They are looking for other options. Searching for healing methods that better support their lifestyles and belief systems to heal not just the body but…
Freeing Restrictive Behavioural Patterns
Freeing Restrictive Behavioural Patterns Our true selves exist whether we acknowledge them or not, often buried under learned behavior.Identity is an elusive concept. We feel we must define ourselves using a relatively small selection of roles and conscious character traits, even if none accurately represents our notion of “self.” The confusion surrounding our true natures…
The Sacred Dance of Shiva and Shakti
Quantum scientists have found that the consciousness of a person watching an experiment affects what happens in the experiment. So they have discovered that consciousness affects the energy moving. But the Tantrics and the Taoists discovered this a long time ago. Tantrics have always been aware of energy and consciousness. The Tantrics call it Shiva…
We Create our own Reality
We Create our own Reality….let that reality be bliss The Creator gathered all of Creation and said, ‘I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is realization that they create their own reality.’ The eagle said, ‘Give it to me. I will take it to the moon.’ The…
Honour Your Life Force
What does it mean to ‘Honour Your Life Force? What is our Life Force? “We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.” — ALAN CHADWICK The human being is not just a physical structure made of molecules. We…
What is Spiritual Enlightenment?
An intense emotional experience such as fear, joy, or sadness can shatter the ego into pieces, but at the same time bring us closer to enlightenment. In this blog, we’ll explore the Tantric perspective on the 9 basic human emotions, the rasas, and how by experiencing them in a particular way we can transform them into spiritual tools.
What is Shakti Energy?
What is Shakti Energy – The nature of sexual and creative energy Shakti means power, energy, or force. Mythologically, Shakti is always described as feminine, often personified as the goddess, Devi, the divine feminine consort of the divine masculine god Shiva. But at the deepest level, Shakti transcends gender. Metaphysically, in Indian tradition, Shakti is…
Yoga and Shamanism
Yoga and Shamanism are intimately linked, in fact, we could say the first Yogis were in fact Shamans. In this podcast, I have such a great chat with Emily Hall from Maya Kala Podcast, who was one of my Yoga Teacher Graduates. She is such an amazing creative soul, who I greatly admire, for her…
The Search for our Spirit
The Search for our Spirit is a question that causes many of my Yoga Teacher Training students much difficulty as we dive into the true practice of Yoga…the Union or Yoking of the Mind Body and Spirit.
Shakti Yoga for Healing the Whole Body
How the Sacred Practice of Shakti Yoga can Heal the Whole Body Yoga is not something new, and it is certainly not solely a physical practice of twisting ourselves into contorted positions. Ancient Yoga was considered to be a whole and complete system of spirituality, and at the same time, a most potent source for…
Karma or Humility
The notion of humility as a virtue brings numerous images to mind, some based on culture and some on expectations. For some people, the concept may not be so culturally valued, and for others, humility may have been a lesson learned by their key role models or institutions. This is the same with the concept…