Nadine Fawell shares why Yoga is her chosen faith

A statue of Ganesh in Bali

by guest author Nadine Fawell, a Melbourne-based yoga teacher, blogger, and author of the yogAttitude cards. She is most interested in yoga's power to heal body, mind, and spirit. I’ve just come back from leading a yoga retreat in Bali. I got on the airplane feeling anxious, for all sorts of reasons: I was about to shoot my first yoga DVD: strong*stretched*serene (which put me so far out of my comfort zone, I couldn’t even see the horizon), I didn’t know whether the hotel would take … [Read more...]

Why forgiveness of self is part of the yogic path toward samadhi (bliss)

Opening to both the Dark and the Light within

Years of yoga practice has peeled away layers and layers of behaviours and thought patterns. The veil of avidya (self-ignorance) is lifting, but not without pain and discomfort. It’s this pain and discomfort that sent me fleeing from class so many years ago. It’s this pain and discomfort that has made my practice sporadic and disjointed at times. Bikram in particular used to dig deep inside to this bottomless well of tears that would erupt during class and pour forth without pause … [Read more...]

How to find true love

Rama and Sita, true love?

Somewhere out there in the world is the perfect person for you. Someone who will love you unconditionally, and meet all your needs, and shower you with love. Right? Absolutely. And you already know this person. In fact, you are extraordinarily close to this person. For this person is you. You are the one responsible for loving yourself unconditionally, for meeting all your needs and for showering yourself with love. And when you do this, you will discover something … [Read more...]

Sacred Sex – The Oldest Path to Spirit

Sex as a path to the sacred

by guest author Pamm Larry of My Secret Spiritual Dance What happened? All of the Earth-based, earliest traditions that I've ever heard of involved not only holding the energies of the earth as Sacred, but also sex. How did we get from there to where we are today, when the two are so diametrically opposed in so many of today's religious traditions? To possibly consider that sex could be spiritual raises eyebrows. … [Read more...]