Yogi Bhajan gave a lecture in 1988 on the Psychology of Fear, one of his opening quotes is, “We don’t even have an iota of understanding what God is all about. We have no consequences to even face, no story to even tell. And God does it all, but we feel we do it all. […]
Birth Alchemy
Yogic Numerology helps us discover and understand the power of the numbers that mark our entry to this life. Our personal numerology reveals the power present and available to us when we are ready to receive the blessings raining on us. Yogic Numerology is based on and understood through the Ten Bodies. By calculating five […]
Journal Confessions: The Paradox of Sadhana
I was teaching my Wednesday night Kundalini Yoga class and found myself recounting a story of my first sadhana practice and a significant event that happened towards the end of it. All this in response to several students beginning their own daily practice at home. So I was inspired to go back and read what […]
BACK TO EARTH!
“It is one of the most prevalent problems for the modern man; the whole of humanity is suffering from uprootedness. When you become aware of it, you will always feel [a] wavering in the legs, uncertainty, because the legs are really the roots of man. Through his legs man is rooted in the earth.” […]
Forty days & Forty nights ~ An Embodied Retrospective Part 3
The big beauty of a forty day meditation is that at some point you meet yourself. Full on, naked, self-confrontation. Delivered to your current reality without any bells and whistles. When it happens it can be awful, full of strong emotions, anger and deep sadness, awareness of one’s conditioned tendencies, damaging behaviour against oneself or […]
Forty Days & Forty Nights ~ An Embodied Retrospective Part 2
SO, if you read Part I you will know of a 2.5hr daily meditation practice that lasted forty days and that the next couple of blogs will share with you the latest Self-Embodiment roller-coaster ride. Straight up…ANY practice done daily helps us meet ourselves. Pouring ourselves through a filter day after day, reveals to us […]
Forty Days & Forty Nights ~ An Embodied Retrospective Part 1
I’m cozied at a small table at my favourite cafe with the best 6oz flat white ever and no one else around. It’s been a baptism of fire 40 days (explanation later) and I have some Significant Changes to integrate in my next birth year, starting April 8th 2016. Here’s the process, Step 1: I commenced […]
The Somatic Way
Derived from the ancient Greek soma; Thomas Hanna, re-defined it as the body experienced from within. He coined the term “somatics” in 1976 as “…the field of study dealing with somatic phenomena, i.e., the human being as experienced by himself (or herself) from the inside.” These days it’s a generative term, now applied to a […]
Your Body Is Your Lived Experience
I’m always curious about what goes on behind the scenes, I like to go back to the beginning, searching out the laws of nature, the biological sub-structure and further the cosmic fluid resonance from which life springs. It is probably because I am so curious about the continuum between the known and the unknown that […]
Adventures in Gravity
Martha Graham once asked, “Haven’t you ever been in a room where someone you loved, who no longer loved you, walked in, and your heart fell to the floor?” While the act of falling can be an embodiment of psychic, as well as physical realities it doesn’t always have to involve a collapse or defeat. In […]