Category: Personal Growth

Engaging the Subtle Body — Lumbar-Sacral Joint

Recently, I blogged about engaging the subtle body (Pranamaya, Manomaya, and Vijnanamaya Koshas) using our breath and awareness as yoga actions intended to awaken our innate healing potential. Practically speaking, sensing and expanding the space between the sacrum and tailbone…

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Engaging the Subtle Body: Sacral-Tailbone Joint

In yoga philosophy, human beings have three bodies — the gross or physical body, the astral or subtle body, and the causal or spiritual body. Here is a breakdown: Yoga asanas (postures) and meditation enable us to balance the five…

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Ways to Build Resilience Amidst Uncertainty

by guest blogger Chloe Pearson In a world where unpredictability is the norm, many people feel stretched thin by rapid change, shifting expectations, and nonstop information flow. Strengthening mental resilience—your ability to adapt, learn, and respond to challenges without losing…

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A Yoga Teaching: We Are Brahman

1.1 They have attained the goal who realizeBrahman as the supreme reality,The source of truth, wisdom, and boundless joy.They see the Lord in the cave of the heartAnd are granted all the blessings of life.From Brahman came space; from space,…

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A Yoga Teaching: Everything is Elemental

As the Upanishads teach us, everything is elemental and thus deemed sacred or holy. That which is sacred to life is defined as being a person or thing worthy of awe and respect or intended wholly for serving God. If…

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A Yoga Teaching: The Mystery of Death & Rebirth

1 When body and mind grow weak, the Self gathers in all thepowers of life and descends with them into the heart. As pranaleaves the eye, it ceases to see. 2 “S/He is becoming one,” say the wise; “s/he does…

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A Yoga Teaching: Perennial Joy or Passing Pleasure

I just returned home from facilitating a workshop in which participants Crafted their Soul’s Portrait. Their guiding focus for completing this task was to answer the question, “Who am I?” In initial attempts to answer this question, the tendency is…

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A Yoga Teaching: Action and Meditation

Life presents us with daily choices from which we consciously or unconsciously decide our future. In the early years of my own spiritual awakening, one of those choices presented itself as such — study (experience spirit) in the “outer world”…

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A Yoga Teaching: Unity

The word ‘Upanishad’ is supposed to connote a secret instruction or a hidden doctrine, secret and hidden in the sense that it purports to reveal the invisible background or reality behind the visible forms of temporal existence. It is evident…

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We Are All Creators

Those who do good become good; those who do harm become bad. Good deeds make one pure; bad deeds make one impure.  You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your…

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A Yoga Teaching: Outer Nature = Inner Nature

The nature of life is such that what we view outside of ourselves is happening in our inner world. That is to say, if we see truth, beauty, and goodness around us, we are experiencing it within. Our perception is…

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10 Must-Try Yoga Poses for Instant Stress Relief

by guest blogger Sara M Stress in 2025 feels like it’s everywhere, right? Between never-ending emails, social media drama, and the weird pressure to always be “on,” it’s no wonder our minds and bodies feel like they’re in overdrive. But…

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