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
Helen Maupin October 28, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
Real depth doesn’t come from sheer force (grunt yoga), but from the delicate art of balancing effort and surrender. “Effortless effort”, as described by B.K.S. Iyengar,
Over the lifespan of human existence, many ‘thought models’ have emerged through which we attempt to understand who we are — psychological, biological, social, philosophical,
Letting go of attachment to the fruits of one’s actions, one is ever content and does not have needs. Though one appears to be doing
In the ancient Yoga tradition, a spiritual teacher is called a Sat Guru, or teacher of truth. The word “guru” has two parts: “gu,” that
Complication is distraction.Complexity is depth. Yoga philosophy and practices intend to unite mind, body, and spirit. Bringing together these three aspects of our being increases
A few weeks back, I wrote about yoga’s ethical guidelines, the Yamas, which fall under the first limb of Patanjali’s eight-limb practice. The second portion