Part 2: Inside the experience of meditation – loving-kindness sadhana to Day 20

This practice was inspired by many things. A conversation with friends after a heart-opening Bhakti practice about the nature of the spiritual path. An understanding that opening the body was all very well, but unless the heart also opened, essentially meaningless. A desire to experience more equinimity, more joy, more bliss, more love. And a [...]

What do you see when you look at the world? – The yogic perspective

A month ago I floated this question with my readers because I was curious. I know that what we see when we look at the world says more about us than it says about the world, and I wanted to know; What were my readers seeing? I knew what I was seeing, and as I [...]

Enough of the doom & gloom! We are in a time of great transformation, can we grab the opportunity it represents?

At any one time, many possible futures are available to us as individuals and as a whole. Times of great change represent both times of great challenge and times of great opportunity. This is one of those times and it makes me excited.

Day 15 to 21: Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya

Read the first posts in this series here: Committing to a Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya Day 1 to 7: Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya Day 8 to 14: Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya I’m over halfway through this sadhana, and the results have been incredible. Last week I [...]

Day 8 to 14: Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya

Missed the beginning of this series? Catch up here: Committing to a Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya Day 1 to 7: Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya There have been so many “ah-ha!” moments this week, brought about by a combination of this sadhana, but also an amazing book I am reading [...]

What do you mean ‘We are all One’?

In his book, The Elements of Yoga, Godfrey Devereux uses physics to explain how our perspective can limit our understanding of ‘reality’ He says: While we perceive a tree as solid, if we change our frame of reference and perceive a tree from the viewpoint of an electron, a neutrino or any of the elusive [...]

How practicing yoga can pierce the veil of Maya

Maya is a Hindu, or Vedic concept – the word refers to the illusion of physical and mental reality that we operate under. Piercing the veil refers to seeing or perceiving past this illusion to glimpse the transcendent truth. It means waking up, becoming enlightened, becoming conscious. So what does this have to do with [...]

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