All yoga is…
All yoga is designed to raise the kundalini energy. What's that saying, "All rivers lead to the ocean?" Yoga gives you an activity, which stops the mind and allows your…
Meridian Set
To adjust the meridians in the body (channels of energy.) Got this from my teacher Harijiwan. It's a favorite kundalini yoga set of his and goes hand in hand with…
Properties of spices (in mung beans & rice)
This was prepared for a vegetarian cooking workshop taught in spring of 2006. Information on the spices and ingredients in "Mung beans & Rice" also known as "Kitcheree." <printable version>…
The Long Time Sun
Thought while meditating this morning: The sun shines on us all equally. It warms us equally. It casts our shadows equally. We should light upon all we meet like the…
Voluntary Hardship
I've started officially teaching Kundalini yoga at a place called Le Studio in Hollywood. The teachers I've studied with have all spoken of this feeling that comes through you when…
Can A Human Be Greater than God?
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? —Woody Allen,
The soul comes through the human to experience duality, the world of good and evil, opposites. If God is so great, how can there be so much suffering?
One of my yoga teachers was telling a story about someone in their family who, while meditating went to the place beyond time and space where souls decide to come into this life. She related that these souls are fighting for a chance at human life. Being human is so great that souls fight to come here to earth and angels are jealous of humans because of all they are able to experience. Yet, when we get here, each of us suffers. That makes no sense. Life is cloaked in suffering. Out in the world of duality, the world of opposites, we bounce between good and evil and we suffer. Why on earth would a soul want to come into that? Perhaps it is to become more powerful than God. (more…)
The Paradox of Worship
When you worship, when you bow, you’re bowing to your own soul potential within. This is why idols and graven images are so dangerous. The ego wants to classify and…
The Paradox Of The Common Soul
A Word About The Common Soul We live in a dual world. Everywhere you look outside there are opposites and polarity. Up and down, hot and cold, in and out,…