compassion

What Kind Of Meditation Is Right For You?

Meditation provides a wide range of benefits to you.  It’s no surprise meditation can help with stress, and along those lines it also has positive effects on blood pressure and mental health.  For example, meditation

Ways To Take Care When You Are A Caretaker: Yoga For The Body, Breathwork For The Mind, Meditation For The Heart

In honor of all caregivers who take the time to enrich the life of another with their kindness, compassion, and deep love.       

 

Living Yoga: 6 Steps For Equanimity In Your Yoga Practice

Through life’s many challenges, inviting equanimity into the foreground of your home practice can have remarkable results.  With equanimity, true balance can be restored in all aspects of our lives.

3 Ways To Walk The Path Of Peace

Rise together in peace.

Make each moment an occasion

to live deeply, happily, in peace.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Peace is so much more than the absence of war, hatred, and violence.

Scorpio Full Moon: The Phoenix Within You

Full Moon - Scorpio 9° 38’ – April 29, 2018

A Full Moon is a time to harvest the fruit of our efforts for this cycle. It’s a time to be illuminated on what we’ve created in our lives, what we want to keep, and what we need to change.

Finding Fault With False Forgiveness

Forgiveness. Sometimes it seems to be the be-all and end-all of spiritual practice, the goal

of every religious seeker, the easy solution to almost every experience of abuse and trauma a person can experience. Indeed, true forgiveness is a profound state—and probably a pinnacle of spiritual evolution. However, demanding that those who are on different places on the path to healing and wholeness forgive—without even understanding what that entails—and using “forgiveness” as a way to blame victims is an act of violence itself.

Intro to Hindu Deities: Krishna Consciousness and Divine Love

Hari Krishna Hari Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hari Hari

Hari Ram Hari Ram

Ram Ram Hari Hari

 

Becoming A Mother: Embracing Change

At the end of this past summer I became a first-time mom to a beautiful baby boy who decided to make a statement by walking out into this amazing world feet first at the only hospital in Barcelona, Spain, trained at natural breech deliveries. After spending five days in the hospital addressing minor complications due to the challenging delivery, we were discharged.

Essential Oils For Consciousness: Geranium & Open Chakras

Breathing in a waft of heady geranium essential oil can be a scent only truly appreciated by the cultivated sniffer. Its fragrance challenges one to dig under the surface of the traditional floral notes and sit with the discomfort geranium assists one in facing. In my opinion, geranium is a scent for the both the mature nose and the mature heart and here’s why I think that is: