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“Inner Silence” is a powerful guided meditation for healing. This meditation technique helps you experience the journey from the ceaseless chatter of the mind to the serenity of a still mind. Mindfulness & Meditation Retreats Quiet the mind, experience inner peace and embrace joy and aliveness in one of our signature meditation and mindfulness retreats. […]
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I first dipped my toes into Ayurveda as an extension of my yoga and meditation practice. I was looking for a complete experience of vitality, optimal health and well-being, and lots of energy. My first intention was to go into Ayurveda School for my own personal vitality, but as it turns out, I fell in
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Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis. (When the mind is ill at ease, the body is affected.) —Ovid It hurts. Your pain is awful. Your misery is unrelenting. No matter what you do, you can’t get rid of it. You went to your doctor, and he told you that you had a medical condition: degenerative disc disease,
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You ask me what is consciousness, but I ask you, what is not consciousness? Everything is made of consciousness. When you go deep into that empty space that you are feeling in meditation, three things happen. At the beginning of the meditation, you don’t see anything, you just see emptiness, but when you put attention
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Meet Jeff Warren—the meditation teacher for fidgety skeptics! Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics Join Jeff at the Art of Living Retreat Center to learn what it means to be your own teacher, able to “MacGyver” your meditation to fit your unique circumstances and nervous system, always curious about and alert to new openings and possibilities. LEARN
Is your mind more like an overstuffed junk closet or a Zen monastery? Is your mental state closer to a crowded freeway than a sweet country lane? Do your thoughts bring you panic or bring you peace? If you are like most humans, your mind is more mess than mindful, more chaos than calm. During
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If you’ve been on a path of self-exploration and personal growth, you’ve probably heard the popular spiritual saying “Be Here Now” which was introduced by the great Western-born yogi Ram Dass in 1971. Recently someone sent me an e-mail containing this humorous take-off on the phrase: “Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that
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If I asked you to pinpoint your tolerance level in a conversation would you be able to? Could you say that after fifteen minutes if you’re not feeling heard you get frustrated or start to shut down and get passive-aggressive? Or if after expressing yourself for the tenth time without any changed outcome you know
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Often we are asked what our children’s yoga classes actually look like. What are we teaching? Are we just practicing movement? Where does mindfulness come in? Do kids actually calm down? Below is an overview of the five elements that we consider essential aspects of any child’s yoga experience. Activities that explore these five elements
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The modern world is a lonely place. Even when we’re surrounded by people, and even when we keep ourselves busy, loneliness has this tendency to creep in and make itself at home. Whenever you’re feeling disconnected, isolated, or driftless, you can cultivate a feeling of being at home in your family, your community, and the
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