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Whether it is to the Lover, or the Guru, or to the student, it is a song of intense devotion and gratitude. When someone aids you in meeting the Lord, there is such tremendous love. The most cherished relationships are those that help us to meet the deepest Truth. When there is such a love, we just want to dance, die at their feet, never leave their presence and praise them all the time.

I used to sing this song to the Guru. Now I sing it to my own beloved students. In their presence, in the company of their sincerity and dedication, as a witness to their brave efforts, I experience an Ocean of Grace, the Kingdom of God.

For you, whom would this be directed toward? Leave comments please

Anyway, have a look- I will also post a link to the video of my friend Mukhtiyar Ali singing it so you can see the emotion and devotion of the song. Hindi-Urdu speakers, please offer alternative translations.

Love to all….Harshada

Nit Khair Manga Sohniya Mein Teri

I pray for your welfare my love

nit khair manga sohniya mein teri dua na koi hor mangdi

tere pairanch akheer hove meri dua na koi hor mangdi

I pray for your welfare my love, I pray for nothing else!

Let me die at your feet, I pray for nothing else!

tere gham lag jawan menu, tera val vinga na hove

nit khair manga sohniya mein teri dua na koi hor mangdi

Let me carry the burden of your grief and may God keep you from harm

I pray for your welfare my love, I pray for nothing else!

tere pyar ditta jadoon da sahara ve, menu bhul gaya mahiya jag sara ve

khushi eho menu sajna batheri dua na koi aur mangdi

Since I found the support of your love, I’ve forgotten the whole world!

Now my happiness knows no bounds- I pray for nothing else!

tu milya te mil gayi khudai ve, hath jor akhan payi na judai ve

mar jawaan gi je akh mei to teri dua na koi hor mangdi

In you, I got the Kingdom of God. I beg with folded hands don’t leave me!

If you turn your eyes away from mine, I’ll die. I pray for nothing else!

Click here to watch Muktiyar Ali Singing the Qawwali

]]> http://www.livingmeditation.org/archives/555/feed 9 http://www.livingmeditation.org/archives/549 http://www.livingmeditation.org/archives/549#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:45:29 +0000 Harshada http://www.livingmeditation.org/?p=549 This is an extra video from our Fall Winter course The Way of the Crow. Enjoy and leave comments.

Anusara has been, up until now, a fantastic collision.

Imagine the popularity of yoga colliding with the money of the yoga industry colliding with a population of people hungry for Spirit colliding with a generation of people longing for a strong father, colliding with an industry of shitty quality yoga classes, colliding with a very in-depth, complete method of physical yoga taught by a whole crowd of charismatic teachers and a very well-oiled business model and training system, colliding with a celebrity-crazed culture, colliding with a time in history where anything with enough money, PR and marketing can be presented as something significant.

It was a perfect storm. So is the current flap.

Don’t get me wrong if I sound like I am shitting on Anusara. I am not. Both of my regular classes in NYC are in Anusara studios. I go to Anusara classes regularly and absolutely love to lead retreats with Anusara teachers like Ellen Saltonstall. Anusara teachers are rigorously trained and supervised and by-and-large safe and effective classes. This is saying a lot given the current yoga industry with its countless untrained inexperienced teachers and studios around the world.

Anusara is fine, it’s just an infant. A huge infant. A huge infant that perhaps doesn’t see itself as an infant. In some cases it’s an infant that we have put into the place of our cosmic mommy or daddy.

When we look at the thousands of years of yoga’s evolution, Anusara’s life span is teeny tiny. It is drawing on older things, but what John has tried to do is very new and very radical in so many ways. And he, along with the other leaders in Anusara have done an amazing job of it. But it’s an experiment- a work in progress. That doesn’t make it less than great- it just means that it is something still in the development phase.

With all the money at stake, and the livelihood of countless teachers and yoga studios, Anusara has not been allowed to be the experiment that it has been. Anusara, and it’s leaders almost instantly became icons. They couldn’t really be otherwise.  When people are shelling out thousands of dollars and buckets of blood sweat and tears for the sake of teacher trainings, “inspired status”, and certifications, they cannot bear to think that what they are investing in is anything less than sun-kissed, allmighty endorsed, here to stay.  I knew we were in trouble when Yoga Journal put John Friend on the timeline of Yoga History with Patanjali.

Years ago, I was doing an interview with Baba Ram Dass and asked him what he thought of the explosion of yoga’s popularity in the West. Here’s what he said:

Hatha yoga is one type of yoga… I think the teachers of yoga in the west are heaping bad karma on themselves. Their students come for something and they direct them into something else. If they see yoga as stretching, then that teacher is leading souls astray. They have made the yoga achievement-oriented. “Look, how well I can do it”. They’ve taken a beautiful method and westernized it. When you get something from another culture and then acculturate it to your own culture – you’re not learning.

The main westernization factor with the current crisis has to do with the western marketplace culture. What is done and what is taught and what becomes “the thing” has more to do with what people want than what people need.

I also knew we were in trouble when I heard reports about the Wanderlust festivals. Yes people love music. Yes people love yoga. Yes people love to get drunk and stoned. Yes people love to be in a beautiful place. And yes -people will pay for it. So -boom- let’s put it all together! And -boom- it’s the thing.  And because it is endorsed by and attended by and taught by prominent “yoga teachers”, and plenty of people come, and it makes a ton of money, it gets expanded and done again next year and within a year it is put on the stage with other significant yoga things.

We are in a culture where things, people, and practices attain prominence via clap-o-meter. If it’s popular, it’s there. And it has a website. And it looks good. And to be in it’s proximity it feels like something. For now. When something is popular, it has a glamor. It has it’s own buzz that is often beyond it’s substance. But glamor deludes. That’s what glamor is. This is all fine-and-good and harmless when it comes to Lady Gaga or something that we know is going to be fad. But with yoga, people are hungry. People are hungry not just to buff their buns, but to know God, to experience wholeness. Collision.

Being a part of anything big and fabulous and energetic creates a buzz, but if you talk to anyone who has been on a honest spiritual path for awhile- like more than 20 years- they will tell you that things come and go. Practices, scenes, teachers, come into and out of prominence. There are things that stay, but we have to hang in there to see what they are. The current situation forces us to pull away from the sizzle and really experience the steak. It’s a chance to grow up and sober up and experience the deep heart of inner work.

The actual process of spiritual evolution is not very marketable. It is not quick. It is not sexy. It is a blood-and-guts process of trial and error. Trial and error isn’t very packagable. But it is wonderful and it’s fruit is so beautiful. Sadhana is true, the path of healing and freedom is true. And it must be true, and it must be thorough. We were the ones who put the infant sensations of the day in their positions. Now we “in the kula” get to learn from this and walk forward. It’s all good. I’m not worried. I’m sure if we check back in in 30 years we will all be just fine.

If we are shaken by the current flap- it’s up to us to step back and rest in the broader, more ancient, tried and true tradition of yoga that Anusara is a very young, popular sprout within. It’s time to grow up and stop looking for a daddy or a mommy.

Anusara has made the word Grace a household name for the yoga world. Now it’s time for us to rest in that Grace and trust that Grace. Rumi wrote:

I was a mineral for thousands of years. I died and became a plant. I lived as a plant for thousands of years. I died and became an animal. I lived for thousands of years as an animal, died and became a man. When have I ever lost by dying?

Anusaris, yoga people, hang in there. We are in good good hands.

Some years later I was approached by Yogaglo to join their team and produce HD meditation videos for online streaming. By then I had forgotten my teacher’s suggestion, but I went for it none the less. Somehow they had figured out how to do it in a high quality foolproof way. I must say I should learn to trust the wisdom of my teachers! I have been so happy with the result of Yogaglo. I have a gazzilion or so videos on there now and they are all very powerful.

These days I do lots of teaching online. I have distance learning courses and now have this blog and I can’t imagine reaching everyone I work with without the internet. Today I am shooting some more videos with Pamela Romanowsky at least one of them will be here on the public blog site. Stay tuned.

If you’ve been to our programs, then I don’t need to describe much. You may be part of the big network of people who come to our events who “get it”. But I hear again and again that you have a hard time telling others about this work. There is often a lot of confusion. People hear about “meditation retreats” and they think of Vipassana, long silent sitting sessions, or something very serious. They hear “meditation teacher” and they think that what I do is teach people to be super peaceful sitting with their thumb and forefinger together.  So let me share a few sentences to describe what we’re doing.

Our classes, retreats, and training sessions focus on “inner yoga“. Just as physical yoga practice strengthens, aligns and heals the physical body, the inner yoga practices of meditation and self inquiry heal and transform the inner experience. Sometimes I call it The Yoga of Happiness.

Meditation is not just about “stilling the mind”. This is a myth. The mind does become quieter, but so much more happens. People who engage in our programs undergo deep and lasting transformation. They become more free, happy, and able to share their greatness with the world.

These incredible results are not because our programs are so good- the results are because the people who come are very ready. There is a spiritual intelligence that is in a potential form in every person. Like tree leaves wrapped tightly in a bud. Our enlightened, fearless, powerful loving essence is in us, but usually in a contracted form. In our trainings, we provide an atmosphere that helps the bud of people’s deep power to open and flourish. It is both very ordinary and practical, and deeply mystical. The sanskrit word for this process is sadhana.

There is a contagious quality to this process. Our soho sanctuary where I do private sessions is a place where this opening happens all the time, and the air is thick with the energy of transformation. Our group sessions are like this too- no matter where they happen. When you are in a room of people who are opening their deep power, there is a momentum, a very powerful energy field that “gets into you” and helps things to open for you.

No Bullshit

In some ways, this process can be really tough. (I’m hoping some of the people who are in the process can share a bit of their experience in the comments). The sadhana process is not about “feeling better”. It is not about “reducing stress”. When you offer yourself to this inner unfoldment, there is a deep purification, and often, everything changes. Negative habits, toxic relationships, entrenched depressions, dark family patterns, addictions, all of these tend to get burned away. And then the positive stuff comes-creative expression, living from your Truth, fearlessness…Embodying these qualities is not always easy either.  It takes a lot of love and support.

To support this process of opening, I teach practices, offer teachings, and cultivate community. The teachings come from the age-old tradition of sadhana laid out by the great masters of every tradition. The practices empower people to be active participants in their own process of healing and awakening. The community provides love, encouragement and fun. Don’t worry, it’s not a “joining” situation. There is no “in” or “out” with our community. Just good people who are walking their very individual path in the same general direction.

Everyone wants happiness. But sadly, very few people are deeply happy. Most people either search endlessly outside for happiness- or they have given up on happiness all together.  Until we sort out our inner landscape, we will be stuck in this hopeless cycle. If and when we choose to make this deep happiness our biggest priority, we can become the happiest people in the world -radically happy. Happy in the good moments, happy in the hard moments.

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The great 19th century saint Brahmananda sang:

Awake! My dear one, awake!
You have been sleeping for so long – at least now wake up!

When I first heard this poem, I assumed it was talking about the initial awakening to spiritual life. I always assumed it was extolling that moment when our hearts first taste a moment of light and grace. As time goes on and I revisit the words of the mystics asking me to wake up, I find deeper and deeper layers to their invitation.

Spiritual evolution can be thought of as a continuous process of waking up. Again and again and at deeper and deeper levels, our inner wisdom grows and we become more and more aware of, and sensitive to, the power that is within us and all around us. It’s as if the heart itself becomes more awakened and stronger as we evolve. On any given day in sadhana, we may feel very awake and sometimes we may feel as if we’re just sleepwalking through our days.

One of the greatest barometers of my heart’s wakefulness is my level of gratitude for the blessings that I have in my life. When I begin to go unconscious, often one of the first things to go is gratitude.

Gratitude is the state of being awake to and appreciative of the good things that are around us, moment to moment. The truth is that most of us are surrounded by blessings, great and small, all the time. This is true and yet, it’s so easy to forget; we have to practice gratitude – we have to cultivate this state of wakeful remembrance.

Gratitude is an inner stock-taking. We remember all of the good things we have in our lives, and give thanks for the calamities we’re able to avoid.

“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.”
- Denis Waitely

Of course, being grateful is not simply something that we ‘should’ do. Gratitude is a virtue that cannot be imposed from the outside or through a sense of obligation or guilt or shame. It can only be cultivated from inside of our own heart’s experience. When we’re suffering, we never want to hear someone say, “you should be grateful for this!” or “You know, it could be worse!” When we employ gratitude with our own heart’s consent, it becomes a gentle and powerful means that we can use to help us appreciate the world in which we live.

Try a Gratitude List
Try this: Take a piece of paper and make numbers one to 25. On each line write something for which you are grateful. You can start with really simple things like the power of speech, having a home etc. See how quickly you fill your list. Afterward, notice the way you feel inside.

There is something in the human mind that makes it all too easy to take things and people for granted. In truth, we are surrounded by people who help us in big and little ways, elements that support our lives, a planet that sustains us, and objects that make our lives easier. Even the roads that we travel on are cause for us to be thankful. Take, for instance, water: Think of all the ways that water touches and nourishes your life. Imagine a world without it. Imagine even a day without it. And yet, do we really appreciate water? Think of the countless people that work every day to support us. From the farmers who grow our food, to the people who run the power plants that supply our electricity. As people, we are each part of an intricate web of contributions and contributors.

In a given day, think of all the people you encounter and how many of those people are doing something that benefits you in some way. Imagine how you would feel if you consciously acknowledged them.

Exercise
Try this: Remember someone living in your life today that you love very much. It could be a spouse, a child, even a shopkeeper or a neighbor. Now, imagine losing that person. Suddenly, unexpectedly, they’re gone. Imagine how much you will miss them. Imagine the void left in their place once they’re gone. Imagine your prayers, “Lord, if only I can be with them once more…” Allow yourself to feel the longing, feel the sadness.

Now bring yourself back to the awareness that your beloved person is here – you haven’t lost them. One day you probably will, but for now, they are still here. Allow yourself to feel the feeling of appreciation and gratitude well up in your heart.

Practicing Gratitude
Once we have woken up and recognized something or someone to be grateful for – how do we make our new found awareness operational? How can we as seekers practice gratitude? The first step is simply recognizing – waking up to the awareness of gratitude. The next step is to act with thankfulness. In some cases this may mean actually thanking people. You may, for instance, want to contact the person you just used for the exercise and let them know just how much you appreciate their presence in your life.

It’s amazing how powerful it is to simply thank people from the heart. Your expression not only uplifts you, it is also often a much-appreciated blessing for them. How often do you think the security guard at your bank is thanked for his service of standing guard? Next time you go, try thanking him and see what effect it has.

Thanking can change the relationship we have with almost anything.

Try this: Take anything, a person, place, thing, idea, feeling, place – and thank it. Express gratitude to it in whatever way you choose. You can mentally think your expression or even say it out loud – even if you feel silly. See what the thanking does to your heart – see how it changes the way that you behave.

I tried this exercise with the keyboard I use to type these blog entries. When I did it, I realized I had never before even considered how much my keyboard serves me. I thought of all the letters and articles and notes it’s helped me write. As I felt the love and gratitude well up, I also began to notice how dirty I had let the keyboard become. Tea had spilt on the keys and quite a bit of dust had accumulated. With my newfound gratitude for the keyboard, I could not go on typing without stopping to lovingly clean my loyal helper.

Just imagine how our world would be if each of us were able to live from this place of gratitude.

Being Grateful for Spiritual Wealth
For those of us on the spiritual path, the scope of gratitude expands when we take into account the unseen blessings that we accrue through our practices.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt…
- Gospel of Matthew

Through practice, we can cultivate a store of inner power so that we can actually tap into and taste the unseen blessings that surround us – it’s not just an intellectual standpoint. No matter what is happening on the outside, we can be grateful because, on the inside, the divine splendor is shimmering. When we are centered and in touch with the divine power in our hearts, we always have something to be grateful for. At any given time, no matter what is happening, we can turn inside and thank the Divine for being there inside of us, if for nothing else.

If the only prayer you say in your life is “thank you,” that would suffice
- Meister Eckhart

People on the spiritual path also have at their disposal the power to turn hardship into something to be grateful for. Haven’t you had the experience of getting through some difficult time or tragedy, only to look back to see how much it helped you grow? In my life, the hardest times in many cases bore the greatest inner fruit. When we actively practice cultivating gratitude – even for the hard times, we are like alchemists who can turn a base metal into gold.

The Antidote to Desire
All of the great wisdom traditions tell us:

Desire is the root of bondage

As long as we desire, we cannot rest in the power in our hearts. If you think of our awareness as a stream – desires are like outward flowing leaks, streaming towards their objects. It’s like our happiness is literally leaking out through the holes of our desires. When we practice gratitude, we feel contented – the outward flow is checked and we can rest in the fullness of what we have.

In our modern lives, there is always something else to desire. There are objects to desire, money, a better job, more interesting friends, a nicer body, a better government, a nicer vacation, cleaner air. The list, of course, could go on and on. We crave the objects that we want and struggle against everything we don’t want. Herein, the sages say, is the source of human suffering. When we are able to practice gratitude and rein in the power of our desires, we take crucial steps towards our ultimate liberation.

Of course many of the things we desire are noble pursuits. Practicing gratitude doesn’t mean forgoing ambition or giving up on life. What the practice of gratitude is asking us to do is to wake up and become aware of the blessings we have in our lives. Are we rich or are we poor? The answer to that question lies in our ability to recognize what we have in our lives. Many wealthy people spend their days feeling incomplete and desirous of more and more – no matter what their bank balance is. Similarly, we all know of people with next to nothing who live happy contented lives.

When we forget to appreciate everything that we have, we actually perpetuate a deep untruth. The mystical tradition tells us that the goal of our sadhana is to live in constant awareness of our own inner power – of who we truly are. The sages – and our own deep experiences – teach us that we are supremely full, we are complete and powerful in every way; that we are, in fact, Divine Essence Itself.

When we live from a place of gratitude, then we affirm the inner wealth that we have. We know that we are complete and can approach almost any moment or person or event with appreciation and a willingness to serve.

As seekers, I believe that we are here with a mission: to love and to uplift ourselves and the world in which we live. We cannot give what we don’t have. Unless we can take stock of all the love and power we have in our lives and in our hearts, we cannot give our love and power to the universe. Cultivating gratitude gives us the ability to remember the blessings in our lives and live accordingly. When we live from this place of abundance and fullness, we not only experience the amazing Grace in our lives, we become the source of Grace in the lives of countless others.

Happy Thanksgiving

Waking up in LA this morning considering solitude. It is a sweet quality and a sometimes precious one. The word solitude simply means alone-ness. It has a positive connotation more so than its cousins, loneliness and isolation. The spiritual quality of solitude is neither isolated nor lonely. Solitude is an alone-ness that allows us to connect or reconnect to our Soul energy.

In our lives today, we are more surrounded than ever, and perhaps also more isolated. We have people all around us, but are we deeply connected to them? Are we really there with them? The big questions here is: are we deeply connected with ourselves?

It’s hard to be there with anyone if we are not really there with ourselves.

An amazing astrologer -write and we will give you her contact info- told me that I have some Neptunian quality that helps me in my work. Like water, my heart energy can disperse itself and saturate others, enter others, understand and love others. It works with groups, too. It is what helps me to lead people into states of meditation and do the healing transformational work that we do.  She also told me that because of this, I need to have regular doses of solitude. That, without alone time, I can lose a sense of what my own energy is. I think that’s why I like traveling alone so much. And why I love motorcycling. Even when you are with a group of riders, behind the bars on your bike is a supremely alone place.

So I woke up here in LA in my hotel room alone these words arose:

r a d i c a l    s o l i t u d e

Up until last week I thought I knew what the word “radical” meant. I thought it meant extreme, or tangential- a departure, like a ray. My republican dad would always characterize my political beliefs as radical. Students have heard me speak of radical non-dualism and the radical choice of entering the spiritual path.  I have always had an affinity for the word. The other day I looked it up and saw that the origin of the word doesn’t mean extreme. It comes from radicalis meaning “of or having roots.” It can mean “going to the origin, essential”.  Don’t you just love this?

Radical solitude is a deliberate movement away from whatever we are dispersed in and coming back into Essence. For me it means actually being by myself. Even if I am in the midst of loud bike engines and headphone music, being by myself does it for me. For others, it means having quiet, or shutting off the electronic media that surrounds us. Most modern people, this author included, are wired nearly 24 hours a day to our smart phones, computers, etc. For others, it means getting away from other people. Getting out into the woods, for instance, or going for a solitary walk in a canyon.

Meditation, of course, if done well, can offer solitude in the midst of everything. Even in a class or group event, if you sit and collect yourself, a deep reconnection with Essence can happen.  But even if we meditate every day -which very few of us do- we then leave our meditation seat and leap into “connection” with our hundreds of Facebook friends, and everyone who has our cell number in their contacts. Some of us live in families or with roommates or in communities where our energy is required and demanded. So, what to do? How do we play and work hard in our active lives without losing connection with our radix- our roots, our Essence.

The main practice here is an awareness thing. If we start recognizing radical solitude as an essential ingredient, a nutrient, in our energetic diet, then we have a much better chance of managing it well. Meditation can help us reconnect, but it can also be a great place for us to sensitize and learn how to know this dimension of ourselves. Radical Solitude Deficit Disorder can be very subtle. We just find ourselves feeling crabby or ungenerous, switched off in some way.

Honestly, I forgot about this need of mine. I often do. I am so surrounded by loved ones and students and heart-connected things that require my involvement. It wasn’t until I was here and alone and feeling deeply refreshed that I recalled my astrologer’s advice. -here in a funky Travel Lodge in Santa Monica. Now, reconnected, I will wade into my LA weekend aware of my “radical solitude balance.”

I would love to read your comments on this.

New York City, as you know, is the home of Wall Street and therefore Occupy Wall Street. Someone wrote and invited me to blog about the current movement. I didn’t have anything immediately. She had written something about feeling as if her head was in the sand- as if she were avoiding the reality of what was happening around her. She wanted to know what my stance on this was and how or if I was using my platform as a teacher to help people get their heads out of the sand. I responded that my focus was more on helping people get their heads out of their asses.

This colorful phrase “get your head out of your ass”, is a kind of mystical aphorism that goes right back to the beginning of my spiritual training. I entered spirituality as a very young man. I was 16 and trying to get my life together, get my self , -dare I say- get my shit together. One of the great men that took me under his wing was a substance abuse counselor named Rick Mast. I wasn’t in rehab, but he worked in one and from time to time I would visit him in his office. Over his desk he had a poster with a version of the picture to the left. Beneath the image were the words, “Your Problem is Obvious”.

It is an oft-used phrase and one that I love, so I thought we could examine it. Usually, the phrase is simply an insult. Sometimes, it is the best way to describe our un-awake way of being.  It is an image of someone who is lost, blind, and deeply unaware of reality.

The head-in-your-ass syndrome  -HIYAS-  occurs when people are deeply self absorbed. When people are wounded, or triggered in some way, they will get blind to everything else around them. People become mere objects in their melodrama. Without some kind of spiritual life and training, people hardly experience life. They mostly experience their minds and emotions.

HIYAS also occurs when people live in a dense fog of concepts -like when someone is hell-bent in some philosophy. People who are very religious also exhibit this quality, even if their religion is a particular meditation or yoga path. Even hard-core 12 Step people -where the phrase is most often used- have their heads in their ass when they get dogmatic about their recovery philosophy. HIYAS almost always afflicts people with strong political agendas. It really doesn’t matter if they are at a Tea Party rally or Zucotti Park.

When we are deeply identified with some trip- religious, political or other- then people become part of “our camp” or “their camp”. People who know and people who don’t. Yoga people, non-yoga people. Wizards and muggles. Conservatives and liberals.

Getting your head out of your ass in the mystical tradition is called awakening.  I love this term. It’s not about substituting a more enlightened bunch of concepts for the unenlightened ones. That may be a good intermediate step. But our attempt to get free by joining something often turns into just another HIYAS. We get indoctrinated. It sounds like a super-strong word, but it is true. We get convinced of a new doctrine. A new dream. Awakening is so different from indoctrinating. It is waking up from a dream. It is snapping out of our trance. It is seeing beyond our personal wounds. It is seeing beyond our concepts. It is living life on life’s terms.

Suffering from HIYAS is nothing to be ashamed about. Studies show that 100% of all people experience recurring symptoms of HIYAS.  We all go back and forth over the course of our spiritual life. We all have things that put us into a trance or allure us into a trip of some sort or another. Then something wakes us up. If we are sensitive, sometimes we hear the barely audible pop of our head coming out. It’s a sweet sound.

Meditation is a great way to help clear away the fog of our concepts and habitual feeling patterns. You are most welcome to join us for one of our classes, retreats and workshops. There you will get training in meditation practice and meet others who are getting free. I promise not to indoctrinate you (too much). Have a look.

So where is  your  head?

If you examine yourself in this way, what do you see? I would love to read your comments.

What coaxes your head into your ass?  What helps you to get it out? Please share.