One thing worth being grateful for is gratitude. To appreciate feels wonderful, as is the feeling of being appreciated. Being grateful helps us gain higher ground; instead of sinking into the quagmire of the many aspects of life that are bothersome, or, for example, instead of feeling entitled or oblivious to the everyday gifts that surrounds…
Gayatri Mantra is chanted to establish conscious connection to the Life Force. Sounding a mantra, in song or recital, is an invocation or activation, that activates a universal connection, beyond dogma and cultural orientation – which is why Gayatri is regularly used in yoga traditions that incorporate mantra. In deep meditation we connect with mantra…
We need to go beyond ordinary, rational, thinking mind when we look for healing. In meditation we learn “to go within”, to connect mind to heart and the whole being to Source, so that everything we “put out”comes from this source. We’re talking more awareness, less problem solving and fixing; more “wholeness”. The healing of war…
Cape Town International Yoga Day 2017 is celebrated with three separate festivals, on three dates, at different locations. The all day event in Muizenberg is the only one on actual yoga day. It starts early morning with a free sunrise beach session, includes workshops and class, community skills development, children’s yoga for after school, and…
In our world there is a place for commerce, entertainment, work, leisure, religion ad sport. For those aspects of life to express in harmony, there also has to be a place for conscious contemplation, in body and mind. Meditation is a phsycial, mental and spiritual practice. The whole practice takes place in the body; a…
The unconditional power of love is required to manifest the Light of Love as a gift of spirit. Such love provides the compassion and kindness to overcome all fear and desire. Only complete self-acceptance and total self love is unconditional, and is required to unconditionally embrace others and everything. We may begin this process by investigating one’s own…
The OM sound and mantras are profound tools of devotion and wisdom. These practices deserve a lifetime of study. This blogpost looks at mantra as encountered in my experience of yoga and music. Included are notes on the healing nature of mantra, my interest in this aspect of healing yoga and sound, and some of my related recordings,. A vibrational…
A vibrational reality Mantras are revered by some yogi’s as sacred sound vibrations that operate beyond ordinary perception. These sound syllables, when chanted as a word or group of words, may help the chanter experience reality differently than ordinary understanding allows. As such mantra are considered to have the capacity to effect profound personal transformation….
Herewith a long, wordy post. Although words may take us to a headspace it may help us understand “how and which” thoughts we choose as our realities. As body, mind and spirit creatures we do have brains, and thoughts will arise. Mindfulness and meditation does not suggest that we avoid or suppress thought or emotions, it just…
Human potential lies not in the intellect, physical prowess or deep spiritual connection alone, but in the whole being. Our potency is in the sum of the parts, body, mind and spirit, the whole human being. When the thinking mind – philosophical or scientific, and physical achievement, overcoming obstacles or achieving glorious feats – is…