This blog was inspired by one particular moment this week: One of my regular visitors to The Floating Room was in the float tank. Under the knowledge that he never stirs for the whole hour, in the reception room next …
One of the most fundamental teachings of the Bhagavad Gita is to follow your heart, to follow what it is that your soul has signed up to in this life. In the Gita, this is described as fulfilling one’s dharma: …
“… and I said to my body, softly “I want to be your friend.” It took a long breath and replied, “I have been waiting my whole life for this.” – Nayyirah Wood What if I told you that your …
Arguably, the first written text on hatha yoga is accredited to the Indian sage Goraksha. Goraksha was an accomplished yogi and, according to legend, a great miracle worker. Goraksha’s mother was (according to said legend) a peasant woman who, unable …
I stand with a foot in 2 philosophies. It is through Buddhism that I received a deep and powerful initiation and yet it is in the language of non dual Kashmir Shivism that I feel most connected to this experience. …
Are you one of those people who hate saying no? I’m just asking because there seems to be a lot of us around? Recently I wrote an email about an upcoming retreat, knowing how difficult I find it to say …
I’m going to share with you my personal relationship with fear in the hope that you may find it useful. At the very beginning of the journey (literally my first ever meditation retreat,) I was lucky (or perhaps unlucky) enough …
Most us tend to spend a lot of time in the “out there” and not so much time “in here.” It’s a product of the outer world that we exist in; Always, energy is moving away from us, grasping, clinging; …
In non- dual tantric philosophy, it is the belief that you are an expression of the universe itself. And, that the universe is expressing itself as you because it wants to be you. Think of it like this; if you were …
