Being human
and life's little mysteries

Many of you know me to be a practitioner of yoga and veganism, which I have subscribed to at two distinct points of my life: as a late...

As 2021 approaches, we have yet another moment of looking through a portal – a point between A and B that feels, sometimes, like no man’s...

entropy. dissonance. chaos. These are words we normally associate with times of tension and lack of clarity, and they may even resonate...

In the quest for yoga, the union of the temporal self and loving awareness, there is continual negotiation. The mind pulls us towards...

The autumn time of year is a delight for witnessing change. Down here in Surrey, the chestnuts are opening up for the taking; fungi of...

A childhood memory: It’s 3am, pitch black and freezing outside. A few of us huddle together in my aunt’s barn, blankets around our...

Identification with the fluctuations of mind is stopped by practice and non-attachment. In our relative world, growth, transformation and...

During the course of August month took time to recover from spinal surgery, resting near a pond that is connected to a river which opens...

A memory of my five year old self exists, sitting in my mother’s giant eggshell yellow Pontiac station wagon on the way home one day from...

patraṁ  puṣpaṁ  phalaṁ   toyaṁ  yo  me  bhaktyā  prayacchati  tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam  aśnāmi  prayatātmanaḥ Whatever is offered to Me...

Warning: The below story contains a few lines that may not paint a pretty picture. but hey, is life always pretty? On Christmas eve, I...

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

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

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

Someone recently told me that I should visualize taking my head off of my body to see the world differently, implying that I over analyze...

This reference to a wild longhaired sage is thought to be the first ode to the yogi of Vedic times. This hermit is dirty and naked,...

Universal consciousness focused through Spirit can appear in our lives offering guidance and council. Guru is the Spirit Guide of the...

Namah Shivaya gurave nada-bindu-kalatmane niranjana-padam yati nityam yatra parayanah Salutations to the nadam, which is the inner guide...

We all communicate in a variety of ways throughout our day with differing levels of awareness; seldom do we think about our tone of...

When I delve deeper into understanding these selected events that have formed my inward and outward understanding of self and other, I...