Tag: Ayurveda
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Deepening and Finding Your Teacher
How important is relationship with your teacher? You might be learning spiritual, health, or other kinds of lessons. A good fit with a teacher’s way of presenting information as well as the information itself serves your learning. This interview with Terra Rafael is offered as a way to get to know her flavor, to understand…
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Loving Kindness Meditation
At the recent NAMA conference I loved the workshop, Role of Ojas in Building A Healthy Family from Birth to Old Age. It reminded me of the importance of ojas. And one speaker suggested a good way to increase ojas is through Loving Kindness Meditation. This form of the Loving Kindness Meditation is what I…
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On Being Sick
Weakened and recovering from hip replacement surgery, I have become (temporary) host for some kind of virus. Tell-tale symptoms slowly unfolded, so slowly that I missed them as I focused on getting my repaired leg reintegrated and detoxed from the necessary drugs involved. Scratchy throat. Feeling feverish. Low appetite. Dry cough. At first, I thought…
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Pratyahara – developing inner awareness
Pratyahara is one of the Eight Limbs of Yoga from the Yoga Sutras. It is the linchpin between working with the outer physical world and going to the more inner, subtle senses. This is relevant to both Ayurveda and Shamanism. For Ayurveda, it works at awakening to the Atman, the Highest Self. This is the…