Lucid Practice

“Be good to yourself. Self love is not selfish. It’s your point of reference for loving others.”

Danielle’s Autumn Spice Sweet Potato Broccoli Soup (Vegan Optional)

Autumn Spice Sweet Potato Broccoli Soup Vegan Optional Danielle and I made this Sweet Potato Broccoli Soup on Saturday night with fresh ingredients from our garden. It was delicious and full of vibrancy! Try it out this weekend for the perfect Autumn soup.   🙂 Sweet Potato Broccoli Soup Recipe (Vegan Optional) Ingredients: 5 Small/Medium Sweet […]

10/17 Destination: NYC, New York, USA

10/17 Art: Tension Furniture

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Wingsuit flyer lands safely on water

Entheos: Keep a gratitude journal.

“One of the best ways to cultivate gratitude is to establish a daily practice in which you remind yourself of the gifts, grace, benefits, and good things you enjoy. One of the best ways to do this is keeping a daily journal in which you record the blessings you are grateful for. My research has shown… […]

“The soul of success is surrendering to what is.”

Full POV Video of Red Bull Space Jump

Meaningful Silence

When we examine our mind, we often find that it is busy, restless, and even agitated. However, like the ocean which can be very turbulent on the surface yet still and quiet in its depths, underneath all the stress, our mind is very peaceful and tranquil. When these peaceful states arise we naturally experience increased […]

5 Lessons from a Yoga Ashram in Rishikesh

5 Lessons from a Yoga Ashram in Rishikesh Coder and yoga practitioner, Claire Byrne writes about how yogis and coders have a lot in common, mainly in the pursuit of understanding how the world works. Here’s an excerpt from an article where Claire talks about how yoga eased the physical ailments (inactive spine, tight joints and muscles) […]

Why a Yoga Practice is “Everything”

  Yoga is wonderful. I have taught many different yoga courses and retreats and things like this, and I have seen people come pillar to post. People who have problems – emotional problems, psychological problems, whatever it may be – physical problems as well. People who have gone from therapist to therapist, psychologist to whatever […]

10/16 Art: Touched by Magic

Touched by Magic by Gill Bustamante 

10/16 Destination: Aerial View of Amsterdam

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Founder of Hipcamp Relates Coding to Yoga

Yoga and Coding A Hipcamp type of service would have been useful last week when we were searching for a camping destination in the NYC metropolitan area. It took us a couple days but after 15 phone calls, Danielle and I found a great campsite in Croton Point Park, New York. As you see above, we found a […]

The 2 Bears – “Church”

Princess Louisa Inlet, British Columbia

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Poetry Corner: Outwitted by Edwin Markham

Outwitted By Edwin Markham He drew the circle that shut me out — Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.   I am just finishing up Phil Jackson’s book, Eleven Rings. It’s a great book and I’ve learned a lot […]

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Theresa

10/15 Art: Eye of the Tiger

Flyboarding

Laruga Glaser “Living With Yoga” Interview

Many yogis are hesitating doing a self practice and finds the mysore style a bit scary, why do you think that is? Releasing control and letting go to the process isn’t always the easiest thing to step into, but can definitely be rewarding. I think for many there is an intimidation factor with being in […]

Dope Stop-Motion Video

10/15 Destination: Pakistan, Nanga Parbat, Himalayas

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How Elon Musk Got Into Space

How do you position yourself to disrupt an industry? Elon Musk: When you’re looking for an opportunity, I think it’s important not so much to focus on just disruption for the sake of it, but rather where is an industry either stagnant or in decline, where the product or service has stayed pretty much the […]

Thích Nhất Hạnh on Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh Check out this interesting podcast — here. 

Everything Changes

Zen teacher Lewis Richmond tells the story of hearing Shunryu Suzuki sum up Buddhism in two words. Suzuki had just finished giving a talk to a group of Zen students when someone in the audience said, “You’ve been talking about Buddhism for nearly an hour, and I haven’t been able to understand a thing you […]

“The greatest carver does the least cutting.”

10/14 Art: Banksy, Bethlehem

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10/14 Destination: Havasu Fall, Grand Canyon

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“Eventually you will come to realize that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”

10 secret places for travelers to stash cash

HARD WON AND FILLED with spending potential, your rupees – dollars – Euros – pounds – dinars are an essential part of any trip. But that overloaded wallet you are carrying – with phone numbers, business cards, and photographs – is a rather insecure basket to store your cash. A few carefully stashed bills can be the […]

Bear Photos

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An Interview with Pinterest’s Co-Founders

Pinterest has changed the way people view and use the internet. Sharp: It starts with people. There’s nothing more inspirational to engineers than working alongside world-class designers, and vice versa. Silbermann: Design is how a product works: the code that enables an action, the pixels users see, the words we use to describe it. Check out a […]

The Journey of the Guitar Solo

University Launches First Yoga Master’s Program in US

Via Yoga Dork: Thinking about yoga school? How about getting your master’s degree? Now you can. Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles is the first in the US to offer an honest to goodness two-year masters degree in yoga studies. A little pricier than your average 200hr training, $18,000 a year tuition at LMU ($1,000 a […]

Knowing the words is not the same thing as living the meaning.”

Poetry Corner: What Buddha said to the Monks

Where is this One? How can we find that One? The Saints say that the One is hidden in the Name. The Divine Name. The name of Love. And that by constant repetition, gradually but INEVITABLY the Presence that is hidden in the Name reveals itself! Where? In our own hearts! The medicine of the […]

Healing Through Yoga ~ How Our Teacher Found the Practice

We’ve written a lot about Rory Trollen and how our yoga retreat in Koh Phangan, Thailand sparked a life+changing chain of events. Here’s a powerful excerpt on how Rory found the practice. Click to read a piece of text from this video on how yoga is everything.

10/12 Quote: Soyal Rinpoche

“The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.“ ~Sogyal Rinpoche

Jesus and the Meek

Jesus and The Meek Let’s examine Jesus and the Meek. Jesus’ most pertinent teachings came from the Sermon on the Mount. The particular teaching that fascinates me is the teaching where Jesus says that the meek shall inherit the Earth. Here’s an excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth: Jesus makes a prediction that […]