What happens when you begin to look inward? Oh, when you begin to look inward, usually what happens is first you bump into your mind. And your mind is full of external things. What’s that stuff that your mind repeats to you over and over again? That’s all stuff from the outside. So you have to go...

I spent decades trying to master the world. beginning with childhood efforts, like stacking blocks and playing in the sandbox. For many decades, I thought life was about handling the world, about excelling in the world. Yoga says that life is about mastering yourself — not mastering the world, bu...

While many would wish for Shavasana to be the most important yoga pose, reclining on the floor with lots of cushions, that’s not it. The seated pose is most important, as it makes your meditation deeper and easier. It is because the current of energy that flows through your spine is so important ...

You want to be healthy, hale and hearty so you can enjoy your body, using it to the max without damaging or depleting it. Healthy living. Yoga and meditation are part of that equation. Yogic breathing and yoga poses will help. Yet meditation makes the biggest difference in your physical condition...

You want to be healthy, hale and hearty so you can enjoy your body, using it to the max without damaging or depleting it. Healthy living. Yoga and meditation are part of that equation. Yogic breathing and yoga poses will help. Yet meditation makes the biggest difference in your physical condition...

There are many meditation methodologies, each suitable for a different kind of person. Hopefully, with you being here, this is the one that works for you. This is a tantric system, where you recognize the deeper dimensions within, all the way to your own Divine Essence. This system is called Kash...

There are many meditation methodologies, each suitable for a different kind of person. Hopefully, with you being here, this is the one that works for you. This is a tantric system, where you recognize the deeper dimensions within, all the way to your own Divine Essence. This system is called Kash...

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...

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, ...