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Exploration of the no-self: A total waste of time?

May 24, 2013 by 5 Comments
No-Self? No identity? What is that?

by Kara-Leah Grant I started this article over two years ago... and never finished it. But thanks to suggestions from a YLB commenter, I found and read a book by Jed McKenna. That was enough to give me the missing piece of the puzzle... I finally got what No-Self is. What follows is that article, written two years ago, with a fresh conclusion. ******* There's been a great discussion going on in the comment section of Suggestions on what to do if you've had a Kundalini Awakening. … [Read more...]

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I’m actually quite a spiritual guy. Oh really?

May 22, 2013 by 9 Comments
Where's my sacred???

By Kara-Leah Grant Can we, like, ban the word spirituality already? And spiritual. Like, if someone says, I'm actually quite a spiritual guy, I just want to gag. What the hell does that mean anyway? What does spiritual and spirituality mean?   I turned to that font of all modern knowledge to find out. Wikipedia. The term spirituality lacks a definitive definition, although social scientists have defined spirituality as the search for "the sacred," where "the sacred" is … [Read more...]

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What’s it like teaching yoga in prisons?

May 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Yoga in Prisons Trust

by Adhyatma, Satyananda Yoga Teacher and author of Broken Warriors - Reaching out to prisoners with yoga [Editor's Note: The Yoga Lunchbox is proud to support the Yoga Education in Prisons Trust through offering free listings of  YEPT fundraising events. Plus $1 from every print copy of Forty Days of Yoga goes to YEPT. It's awesome work they're doing! You can make a tax-deductible donation here.] We thought it was time for an update on the activities of Yoga Education in Prisons … [Read more...]

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Sacred Feminine and Yoga: It’s all about balance. Part 2

May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
purification

by guest author Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat The Tantric view of creation is that there are two forces called Shiva and Shakti representing the male and female aspects of creation, which exist within each and every person. Shiva, also called Purusha, is the masculine force and is pure ‘consciousness'. Shakti or Prakriti is the feminine force that is pure ‘energy’. One cannot exist without the other and both are within each of us. This duality is also described in the word … [Read more...]

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I can’t do that. Actually, maybe I can. Hey, I can do it!

May 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Shoulderstand prep

by guest author Sara Foley, Smells Good, Feels Good I'm not really sure how to begin this post, except to say: These ideas that you have about what you can and can't do, the things that are too hard or to big to begin - often these ideas are formed in a time of perceived failure. We don't think to ourselves; Oh, right, maybe I am not ready to do that yet, or maybe if I try that a different way it will work, or maybe I need some help to do that, or even let's sleep on that and try … [Read more...]

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Your thoughts do not create your reality. Stupid.

May 6, 2013 by 13 Comments
What filters your perspective on reality?

By Kara-Leah Grant Let's get one thing straight. You do not create your own reality. Your thoughts do not create your reality either. All the positive thinking and manifesting and vision boarding and dreaming is not going to get you what you want. What you do create is your experience of your reality. Your thoughts about your reality create your experience of that reality. This distinction is critical, and far too often it's glossed over, ignored or pushed aside in favour of the … [Read more...]

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