Archive for Instructor Contributions
Adding a Dimension to the Teacher-Student Prayer
This piece is fruit of inspiration by three wonderful teachers that light the path underneath my feet: Dharmanidhi Sarasvati, Rami Sivan, and Hart deFouw. May they continue to benefit all beings in all times and spaces.
One of the most precious prayers we enjoy on the yogic path is the teacher-student prayer. This is a very [...]
Ayurveda – The Original Slow Food Movement
The Slow Food Movement began in reaction to fast food culture, a phenomenon which has proven to be a harbinger of ill health and social disintegration. Habituation to limited and homogenous foods is ubiquitous in our country. The sheer amount of processing in foods makes it difficult to determine what is healthful and what is [...]
Yoga and Meditation – Why do we think they’re separate?
I found meditation practice just after college, a skinny bald kid on the run from “ordinary” life, at a Zen monastery in New Mexico. The bare-bones practice there was stern, painful, and strangely beautiful. I fell in love with the simplicity and order, and with an 86-year-old teacher who was the first to show me [...]
Yad Bhavati, Tad Bhavati
In yogic philosophy, there is a concept which posits that what you contemplate, you become. This idea is expressed [...]
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