Many Paths of Yoga

Somewhere in Between – Eric D. Myers

“Why and what is it that enables these people to experience and endure such hardships and still smile and waddle their heads in such a welcoming and joy-filled manner? And why with all the excess and comfort that we have in the West are we still so often unhappy, if not miserable, feeling that we are lacking something?”

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Going to Jail Today – Kelly Boys

I feel the impulse to write about my experience in San Bruno jail today. I teach a weekly iRest (Integrative Restoration Institute) class there, to a group of men who are incarcerated veterans convicted of violent offenses.

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The Power of One Moment – Anne Jablonski

No book, no manual, no clinical scientific study could ever convey with such clear conviction – that even just one single solitary breath wrapped in peace has the power to make possible the choice between waking up to embracing life’s purpose or to settle for anything less.

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Feathered Pipe Memories: How Limitless We Are – Lanita Varshell

How important it is to SEE oneself doing all the things one knows one is meant to do; we need to get our negative, fearful selves out of the way and embrace who we are today, and know, really know, that it is our birthright to be happy, healthy, abundant, loved, and loving.

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“Gone to Feathered Pipe Ranch…” (1983) – Dean Lerner

“Gone to Feathered Pipe Ranch. Back in a week.” was the message on the answering machine of George Purvis, an Iyengar yoga teacher based in Dallas, Texas. That was the first time I had heard of the Ranch.

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Love of the Highest Sort: Living with Huntington’s Disease – Jane & Steve

I didn’t quite realize that being on a spiritual path doesn’t protect you from an early demise. Of course since then, I have realized that suffering is just the other side of the coin to joy and that without it, we will not make spiritual progress.

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The First Lady of Yoga: Lilias Folan – Joy Kraft

“If you don’t use it, you lose it,” she says. “As the body ages and birthdays go by, the connective tissue gets firmer, harder. We need to approach it differently, with kindness and awareness.”

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The Roads We Travel – Aanika Chopra

How can God give to you with one hand and take it away with another before you have a chance to even feel that it is yours is beyond me! This must be what we call karma!

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Last Chance Passage to India – Fellow Sojourners

My guess is that for most people, what they think they will take away from a trip to India and what they do take away are often different things. That is one of its greatest gifts, I think, and India so effortlessly helped us find the surprises.

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Cable Cars to India: The Bay Area’s East-West Transmission – Philip Goldberg

San Francisco has always been America’s hinge to the East… It was largely through the digestive tract of the Bay Area that the great teachings that derive from ancient India have been absorbed, assimilated, and disseminated into the nation’s bloodstream.

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In the Land of Buddha – Jennifer Prugh

What I saw that night, and for three nights following changed me. I felt a tangible welling up of profound appreciation and gratitude for life and I could understand the collective desire to pray and to make offerings. I thought that there was no way to describe this. It is something you HAVE to SEE to understand.

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The Last Pilgrimage (Part 3) – VJ Supera

The German man, exhausted from another sleepless night, went down to the river to fill the canteens. He looked long and hard at Kailas. “God, show mercy,” he prayed. “Take his life or let him live.”

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The Last Pilgrimage (Part 2) – VJ Supera

“I don’t understand,” he whispered. “They are Buddhists and I’m a Buddhist. Where’s the compassion?” His eyes filled with tears and his body shook with emotion. His world was falling apart, his spiritual beliefs torn asunder. He lost all control and cried like a child. The German woman held him in her arms and rocked him gently.

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The Last Pilgrimage (Part 1) – VJ Supera

The story that follows is a tale, written by VJ Supera, based on her experience of making the pilgrimage around the base of Mount Kailas. It speaks clearly of the enormity of the undertaking and the unforgiving but emancipating nature of the land.

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Shri Satya Sai Baba: The Journey Home

As my teacher and my guide, I feel that while I’ll miss his form, he certainly will guide me for the rest of my life. We see by the incarnation of Christ and other avatars, that their dying does not diminish their message. We can still practice, keep our eye on the mark, do more service, become better people and be kind.

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“Turn me loose, set me free,…” – Vyda Bielkus

I am in all ways, shapes, and style a city girl. I don’t mind that I share this little space of our planet with millions of others who are carving out their lives in the concrete jungle. But every now and then, when I bump up to my own contraction of spirit, I love to blare Merle Haggard’s “Big City.”

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India’s Story – India Supera

If you believe in miracles then you might believe this story.

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