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It’s a Sound Practice
Tibetan Singing Bowls During the Covid Era, I find myself with a lot of time on my hands for random activities. Not that I get anything accomplished. All of 2020 has seemed fluid, as if we're floating in a sea of confusion. But I have a new book to promote--Take a...
Big Yoga: An Interview with Meera Patricia Kerr
Meera My interview with Meera Patricia Kerr is the first of a series of interviews with influential teachers who are committed to bringing the benefits of yoga to larger students. I personally studied with Meera Patricia Kerr in 2004, at the beautiful Satchidananda...
More on Meditation
In last week's blog post I wrote about a simple meditation technique that anyone can do. It is based on mantra meditation, or if you prefer, sacred word meditation. It's a way of tricking the mind to quiet down by speaking your chosen sacred word out loud...
Meditation Made Easy
In these times of Covid 19, we all have our special moments of what composer Ned Rorem called "The Icks". It may be a fleeting moment of panic when getting too close to others at the supermarket, the bus or subway, or on the street. Or perhaps you have an...
Can Meditation Help with COPD?
Anyone with breathing challenges such as COPD or asthma knows the frightening feeling of not being able to catch your breath when out and about. Maybe you needed to get to the grocery store and just the short walk from your car has made you breathless. Do...
Pillars of Yoga: Concentration
One of the tools we use to deepen our practice of yoga is simple concentration. Maybe I shouldn't say "simple!" If you've ever tried to meditate, focusing the mind on one thing without interruption is extremely difficult. That's why we begin with a practice that's not...
What is Meditation, Anyway?
If you think you never meditated, I beg to differ. Anytime you've concentrated on anything to the exclusion of everything else, you have meditated! My Guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda said meditate on "Anything the delights the mind". First, find a comfortable seat....
Peace Control
There's a lot of talk these days about gun control . It makes me a little sick. I want to be on the record about this. I am a pacifist. I would rather lay down my life than shoot someone--that may seem a little facile, because I don't have...