OTHER POSTS
Beautiful Music for Savasana, Yin Yoga, Restorative, or Meditation
One of our teachers played this peaceful piece during Savasana at the end of a yoga practice this week. This piece is about slowing things down. We live in a fast paced world ~ it’s a lucid practice to slow things down, breathe, contemplate, reflect, and enjoy the subtle beauties of life. The video above […]
Rohr: Jesus and Buddha
In many ways, Jesus and Buddha were talking about a very similar process of human transformation. Pain is the foundational teacher of transformation for both of them, which led to compassion in Buddhist language and love in Christian language (I accept the common definition that our suffering is the degree of resistance we have toward […]
What Urban Planners Can Learn From Kumbh Mela
Tom Downey describes how an Indian city balloons from a few million residents to tens of millions with ease. It was January, and I was headed 80 miles west to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, a Hindu religious festival in which tens of millions of pilgrims come together at the convergence of two real […]