To be honest, if you were born into a toxic family system, you will know. The signs are always there. Your unhappiness, uncertainty, fear, anxiety, and depression are solid indicators of your toxic surroundings. Toxic family systems have a strong sense of power struggle, win/lose,...
Most people are familiar with yoga in the sense of the physical movements. However, yoga is much broader than the mainstream classes that we might have become accustomed to. The word “yoga” comes from the Sanskrit language and translates to “unity”. Yoga itself comes from...
When you hear the word “meditation”, do you think of a sage sitting cross legged, eyes closed, breathing deeply, and perhaps, levitating (or trying to)? Meditation is often linked to religions and movements such as Buddhism, Hinduism, or the Brahmakumaris. Each might have a version...
Raja yoga, also knows as Ashtanga yoga, is known to have eight limbs which is also known as the “eight-fold path”. “Ashtanga” literally means ashta=eight and anga=limb. The eight limbs are identified and described below: Yamas – our personal ethical standards and how we carry...
There are known to be 196 Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. “Sutras” in Sanskrit translates to “thread” in English. I think of them as guidelines designed to help me live a peaceful life. As I read and processed the translations of Yoga Sutras in Sanskrit, the...
I don’t know about you, but I used to be an expert grudge-holder. Forgiveness? No way. Do you know how stressful it was? Very. I probably punished myself more, than the people who I was holding a grudge against. Along the way, I realized I...
We talk about a quiet mind.The mind cannot be silenced when we have trained it to keep seeking. When you face a situation, just face it.Don’t make meaning.Don’t assume.Don’t guess.Just take it as it is.This is what is. Optimism and pessimism are two sides of...
In a world that values capitalism over community, we are missing the most important links in our human existence. In a world of COVID19, we have tried to balance community and economy and have been reminded of some important lessons. Economy plays favorites,Community looks after...
Whilst sitting in isolation and lock downs across the world due to the COVID19 pandemic, we are all feeling the true depth of loneliness and isolation. No longer are these terms reserved for the elderly or the homeless. They apply to us all. For some...
Every so often I think about how life has changed, and yet, in some ways, stayed the same. I think about how I would not have predicted that we will be in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic in 2020, isolated and in lock downs....