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One of my yogic clearing and grounding meditation practices
I find the Duncan Trussel Family Hour Forum to be really interesting. I was on there the other day, and was reading a thread about western magic, and their rituals. There was a practice called 'The Gnostic Pentagram Ritual'. It struck me that it was very similar to a...
Q & A, Healing Sciatica
Someone asked how they could use yoga to help with some sciatica that they started experiencing during their pregnancy.Having never met them, this is what I felt like i could safely offer.most generally, sciatica is caused by the irritation, compression, and/or...
Wisdom’s Blossoms: Tales of the Saints of India by Doug Glenner and Sarat Komaragiri
Listening to one of Tara Brach’s podcasts, I heard her saysomething to the effect of, “for teachers, good stories are like gold”. She went on to say how she and her colleauges read and study trying to dig up the best stories for their classes. There is even a bit of...
Broaden Your Foot
spread your toes as wide as you can. now take your attention from you toes, back a little, into the ball of your foot. spread the ball of your foot as wide as you can, from the center of the ball of the foot, out to the big toes edge, and the little toe edge. now...
Lemon Pickles
Last week was a crafty week, i decided to make both lemon pickle and saurkraut. Saurkraut I've made before and find totally delicious, but I haven't made lemon pickle before. Arsha Vidya makes a slammin version, but it never occured to me that I could make it myself....
New Year, New Aquisitions
A few new books made their way into The Library recently, under some fairly auspicious circumstances. The first two books, The Play of God: Visions of the Life of Krishna and There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing and His T'ai Chi Chuan, I found one fine...
Thirumandiram, post one
I discovered a new text recently. Love it. From the Tamil, Southern India, The Thirumandiram has a slightly different vibe from the northern, Kashmiri literature that I am a little more used to. These teachings of Siddhar Thirumoolar are said to be the seed that...
The Radience Sutras: First Post
When I was at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree last month, i met a man named Lorin Roche. He was a scholar and meditation teacher, and had spent several years working on a beautiful, poetic, practical, and accessible version of The Vijnana Bhairava tantra. The vbt is a...
Timothy Leary’s Tao Te Ching
Dearest Yogis and Yoginis, I am reading a fantastic book. They recently republished Timothy Leary's version of the Tao Te Ching, "Psychedelic Prayers". (Psychedelic Prayers: And Other Meditations (Leary, Timothy) ) I had an old version once, but I gave it to Paulie...
Tantra Reading : The Radiance Sutras
When I was at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree last month, i met a man named Lorin Roche. He was a scholar and meditation teacher, and had spent several years working on a beautiful, poetic, practical, and accessible version of The Vijnana Bhairava tantra. The vbt is a...
Timothy Leary’s Tao Te Ching
I am reading a fantastic book.They recently republished Timothy Leary's version of the Tao Te Ching, "Psychedelic Prayers". (Psychedelic Prayers: And Other Meditations (Leary, Timothy)) I had an old version once, but I gave it to Paulie Zink. I was without one for a...
Iyengar Yoga Joke
Q. How many Iyengar yogis does it take to replace a light bulb?A. Only one !BUT, they will need:a sticky mata backless chairtwo blocksfive blanketsa bolstersix ropestwo beltssix assorted benchesa bandagea slant boardtwo quarter roundsthree weightsone wooden horsea...
