Being human
and life's little mysteries

With great Love, all is possible. –Padma If you had, at your fingertips, the ability to destroy someone else’s life, would you do it? ...

PATTERNING OUR NATURE: A WORKSHOP Most of us exist in day to day life with some level of chaos. In an urban environment, information...

atha yoga-anuśasanam Now this is yoga as I have observed it in the natural world. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali I.1 What is real, and what is...

sat-sangatve nissangatvam, nissangatve nirmohatvam, nirmohatve nishcala-tattvam, nishcala-tattve jivanmuktih, bhaja govindam, bhaja...

What happens on the mat should be reflected in our vision of the world and our actions in it. When we think of inversions, those classic...

Over the weekend I spent some time with a cousin who is 25 and in a transition process from being a student to being an employee…the...

Let’s face it. The transition from August to September can be dramatic for some of us – full of events that remind us of that the end of...

Focus Of The Month – June, 2017 Yama-niyama-āsana-prāṇāyāma-pratyāhāra-dhāraṇā-dhyāna-samādhayo‘ṣṭāvaṅgāni. Restraint, Observance, Seat,...

Jivamukti Focus of the Month, May 2017 by April Dechagas yad-yad ācarati śreṣṭhas / tad-tadevetaro janaḥ / sa yat pramāṇaḿ kurute /...

Focus Of The Month – April, 2017 nimittam aprayojakaṁ prakṛtīnāṁ varaṇa-bhedas tu tataḥ kṣetrikavat Causes do not put nature, Prakrti,...

Focus Of The Month – March, 2017 hānan eṣāṁ kleśavad uktam The greatest obstacle to the practice of yoga is one’s own prejudices based...

Gone, gone, real gone, beyond even the most gone. Ultimate wisdom remains when everything has dropped away. The Heart Sutra “The...

Jivamukti Focus of the Month, January 2017 by David Life You know the story of the student who says to the teacher, “I studied eight...

Sting, the world-renowned rock star who gives hundreds of concerts a year, once said to me, “I put on a better show when someone I know...

What Is a Person? (The World in Which the Kestrel Moves) sarva-bhūtastham ātmānam / sarva-bhūtāni ca-āatmani iksate yogayukta-ātmā /...

Shri Adi Shankaracharya from Guru Ashtakam Thousands of years ago, as a way to encourage his students to realize how precious their lives...

I take refuge in the all-attractive Lord who is the true identity of all being. Sharanam means refuge. This beautiful initiation mantra...

Listen to the teacher. So many times in a yoga class I have been called out.  I have stepped the wrong foot forward, had my foot where...

We Must Listen To Our Own Voice God is always present in the formless and He speaks to us in the soundless sound. Blessed indeed are...

Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru devo Maheshwara, Guru sakshat, param Brahma, tasmai shri guravay namah Our creation is that guru...