Power Produces

Power Produces   "Life shrinks or expands, according to one's courage."-Anais Nin At twenty-six years old, Mohamed Bouazizi would not live to see what happened after he set himself on fire in the streets of Tunisia. This young man had been unable to find steady work and was eking out a meager living by selling … Read more

Home is Where the Heart is

HEADING BACK HOME      Now sitting in the Stockholm airport, contemplating the completion of five weeks of teaching in northern Europe, covering Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and Sweden. It's been an eye-opening trip, but travel weary, I am glad to be heading home.   Five workshops, four countries, and a blur of planes, trains, and … Read more

Chakras and Asana Practice

The Chakra System originated within the yoga traditions of India, most specifically the Tantric period, circa 500 - 1000 AD. Therefore, yoga is an ideally designed practice to not only train your mind and body, but to access your chakras. The word yoga means yoke or union, and one can see how the chakra system … Read more

Partner Heart Sequence

These are the yoga sequences Anodea uses in some of her workshops.  PARTNER POSE SEQUENCE DONE IN HEART CHAKRA  Stand opposite your partner in your own vertical current, eyes closed, feel your heartbeat, left hand over your own heart. Open eyes, connect with partner, right hand over your partner’s left hand. Compassion meditation: (can use … Read more

History of the Chakra System

Now that the chakras have become New Age parlance, there are many interpretations of their meaning and function being bandied about. While this popularity is making the chakras a household word, it is also spreading a lot of confusing, conflicting, and often erroneous information. It is important to realize the chakras come from an ancient … Read more

What is a Kin-dom?

  In the old model of civilization kingdoms were an area of land inhabited by people who were ruled by a king. Kingdoms were what people knew, how they identified themselves. Kingdoms had a top-down organizing principle that began with the king and trickled down hierarchically to the common people, who were of unequal status. … Read more

Sri Aurobindo: A Remarkable Teacher

Sri Aurobindo: 1872 - 1950 Sri Aurobindo was a political activist, Indian Yogi, and spiritual master, who first came to prominence in India's struggle for independence from the British, in an extremist nationalist movement in 1908. He was convinced that any political freedom must be imbued with spiritual elements and thus created a new vision of … Read more

Teilhard de Chardin and the Concept of the Noosphere

Artwork by Will Zero - http://www.reinventingreality.com/Vision.html Teilhard de Chardin: 1881 - 19555 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution. In this endeavor he became absolutely enthralled with … Read more