Any meditation is good meditation. Any methodology, any time of day, any length of time, any location you choose – you will benefit from even a short meditation. However, the type of benefit you get depends on the type of meditation you do. If you meditate on peace, you will experience peace. I...

Yoga says the goal is for you to know your own Self, your own Divine Essence. You are already Divine. You don’t gain something that you are missing. You simply discover that you didn’t realize the depth and dimensionality and reality of your own Beingness. Meditation gives you…

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Namaste from Varanasi, the holiest city in India, the city of Shiva. I am here for Shivaratri, a holy night for yogis as well as Hindus. It is the night of Shiva, when you can get enlightened in one night. How? Meditate on your own Shiva-ness through the night. This is THE night to meditate on y...

Namaste from Varanasi, the holiest city in India, the city of Shiva. I am here for Shivaratri, a holy night for yogis as well as Hindus. It is the night of Shiva, when you can get enlightened in one night. How? Meditate on your own Shiva-ness through the night. This is THE night to meditate on y...

There’s two reasons your mind will beat up on you. One is because you’re not doing your best. The other is, that you did your best, and you’ve accomplished something. And now you’re moving on, and so your mind beats up on you to make sure you continue doing your best. Your mind isn’t really try...

I always wanted to know. As I gathered information, more and more information about more and more things, I became more and more disappointed – because all that information wasn’t giving me what I really wanted to know. It was like I had collected a suitcase full of seashells, but what I wanted t...

I always wanted to know. As I gathered information, more and more information about more and more things, I became more and more disappointed – because all that information wasn’t giving me what I really wanted to know. It was like I had collected a suitcase full of seashells, but what I wanted t...

There’s that moment when it’s all done, when you’ve got it all together. That’s really what you are looking for, in all the things you do. You’re looking for that moment when all the efforting stops, when all the self doubt falls away. When you have a...

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Meditation is a natural and easy state, something everyone experiences. Just as every human being experiences sleep, they also experience meditation. Yet yogic meditation takes you deeper – by using stillness as an entry point deeper within. Deepening into your own Self, you experience fullness, ...

Meditation is a natural and easy state, something everyone experiences. Just as every human being experiences sleep, they also experience meditation. Yet yogic meditation takes you deeper – by using stillness as an entry point deeper within. Deepening into your own Self, you experience fullness, ...

Yoga says you can live every moment of your life in an attunement to the highest purpose of human life, in attunement to Divine Consciousness. And that you get your answers, you get your impulse to answer, you get your directives from that deeper, more expanded, more...

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God is very close to you. You may think God is far away, but God is very close to you – always. You’re simply looking in outward, in the wrong direction. Your field of awareness is like your visual field, narrowed to the objects in front of you, with a little peripheral vision to give you some br...

God is very close to you. You may think God is far away, but God is very close to you – always. You’re simply looking in outward, in the wrong direction. Your field of awareness is like your visual field, narrowed to the objects in front of you, with a little peripheral vision to give you some br...

What makes you feel good? You have a list of things that make you feel good. You’re really quite consistent at doing them. Is yoga on the list? Is meditation on the list? Is chanting on the list? Do you they make you feel good? Consider how you feel now, we’ve done four chants, and after each one...

You need a body to be here. Your body is important. You want it to last a long time, so you can experience this amazing world, so you can learn your lessons and give back. Sometimes people think that getting enlightened is about transcending your body. Nope. It’s about being present within your b...

Yes, the knowing of your essence, the knowing of the truth of your own existence, this makes you wise. Wisdom blossoms forth from within. The knowing of your essence, the truth of your own existence, makes you wise and steady in that wisdom. When your heart waffles with the wind it’s not strong, ...

Everyone says “Happy New Year.” Hopefully you are considering what improvements you would like to make in your life — New Years resolutions are all about how you can be happier.

You do things that you hope will make you feel good. This is true all year long, actually. Now is the time you can s...

Everyone says “Happy New Year.” Hopefully you are considering what improvements you would like to make in your life — New Years resolutions are all about how you can be happier.

You do things that you hope will make you feel good. This is true all year long, actually. Now is the time you can s...

Your face, your body, your spine particularly, is a road map of all the places you’ve been, and all the thoughts you’ve thought, and all of the things you hold dear, and all of the things that you reject and are afraid of. That creates certain tensions and imbalances in your spine, not just in yo...

Your mind loves to draw dotted lines. They separate you from others. They separate you from God. They separate you from you. I usually talk about the One Divine Reality by using the name of Shiva, or sometimes I use the name God – but your mind begins to install dotted lines, as though Shiva is d...

Your mind loves to draw dotted lines. They separate you from others. They separate you from God. They separate you from you. I usually talk about the One Divine Reality by using the name of Shiva, or sometimes I use the name God – but your mind begins to install dotted lines, as though Shiva is d...

Just like the air currents will move the water vapors through the air and you get the everchanging shape of the clouds, this happens in your mind. Oh yes, constant, everchanging patterns. Some repetition, perhaps a lot of repetition. But that's because you identify with certain patterns, certain ...

It’s such an auspicious time, the night before Christmas. It’s easy to feel God’s presence, almost like a blanket wrapped around you with the corner tucked in. Before yoga, I treasured the sacred space of this holy night. It was a rare and precious time. A time that I felt close to God. But yoga ...

I love Christmas carols but, as a yogi, I hear different lines than when I was growing up. “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright…” — yes, we want all to be calm and all to be bright. This song and others are pointing to the inner light of a babe whose birth is remembered now. How...