How can I practice "dispassion" when there is such suffering?

    How can I practice “dispassion” when there is such suffering?

    On Equanimity, Dispassion and Empathy: Everyday we experience ups and downs, things that bring a smile to our face or a knot to our hearts. For some the trials and suffering others, homeless in the streets, a child crying, an argument between lovers and so on will elicit an emotional response. Even those apparently numb [...]

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    Yoga Sutras & Meditations: Teacher Training 5/12

    Yoga Sutras & Meditations: Teacher Training 5/12

    Unfolding of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali & Meditation sessions for inspired students and Yoga Teacher Trainees: As part of the Yoga Garden Teacher Training Program I am offering an unfolding of the teachings in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, drawing as well from the Bhagavad Gita to unfold the Yoga Sutras in a way [...]

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    New Weekday Classes, April 2012

    New Weekday Classes, April 2012

    I’m pleased to announce new weekday classes. See my Weekly Schedule for details! – Tue & Thu morning, 9:00-10:30am Yoga Kula, SF. Starts April 3rd. – Wednesday evening, 8:00 pm, YogaGarden, SF. Starts March 14th. – Friday evening, 6:15pm, Yoga Tree Hayes, SF. – Now rolling! – FREE Meditation: Sunday morning practice. share: Bookmark on [...]

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    On Happiness, Now, and Thou...

    On Happiness, Now, and Thou…

    Happiness is universally cherished and sought, and yet so elusive and often associated with experience, rather than our essential nature of Being. I wrote this originally around New Year’s day, touching on the motivation we often have at that time of year to reaffirm values important to us, to invoke happiness for the year to [...]

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    Top 5 Tips to Jumpstart your Home Practice

    We all want to, but it just doesn’t seem to get off the ground, or out of the bed. An essential pillar in yoga is congruence in heart and mind, thought and action. There is what Swami Dayananda Saraswati calls the ‘knower-doer split.’ I know I want a home yoga practice, I know it is [...]

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    Upcoming Courses Spring/Summer 2012

    Yoga Sutras & Meditations: Teacher Training 5/12
    Yoga Sutras & Meditations: Teacher Training 5/12

    Unfolding of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali & Meditation sessions for inspired students and Yoga T…

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    Practice

    How can I practice "dispassion" when there is such suffering?
    How can I practice “dispassion” when there is such suffering?

    On Equanimity, Dispassion and Empathy: Everyday we experience ups and downs, things that bring a smi…

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    Mindful Living

    On Happiness, Now, and Thou...
    On Happiness, Now, and Thou…

    Happiness is universally cherished and sought, and yet so elusive and often associated with experien…

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    Book & Film

    Emerson, the Dream of America and Vedanta - Book review, Interview
    Emerson, the Dream of America and Vedanta – Book review, Interview

    Emerson on Consciousness: “We are in it. It is not in us.” Truth is not subjective. Mode…

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