Honoring The Lineage of The Ancestral Feminine
A prayer by composed by Rev. Doju Dinajara Freire to honor the lineage of the Ancestral Feminine.
Yoga As A Peace Practice
A Curriculum for Our Times By Jana Long, E-RYT, C-IAYT Executive Director & Co-founder Black Yoga Teachers, Alliance, Inc.
Who is the True Guru?
The only goal of the guru is to awaken those still lost in pain and ignorance. There is no other motive – not building an institution, not amassing followers and a big bank account – there is no “I” left to desire any of it.
How Many Souls Did You Make Happy?
It was more than 30 years ago that Swami Nirvanananda, an Italian student of agriculture and music, traveled to Puri, India, after having read the book ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ by Paramahansa Yogananda. A book that transformed his life’s direction with Guru Yogananda Paramahansa serving as an inspiration and inner teacher. In India he met Father Marian, a survivor of the Nazi death camp of Dachau, who had started a village for lepers. Touched by the work of Father Marian and […]
Simplicity
How can we be fully attentive when our lives are cluttered with so many possessions, so many attachments, so many desires?
A Saint Named Bob
Bob is no longer interested in religion. He wears a t-shirt, simple cotton pants, and the flip-flops, a size too small, of a wandering ascetic. The Sufi poetry of Rumi is what he reads, or he sits in silence, which is his preferred mode of communicating.
The Deeper Significance of Standing Rock
“We are not protesters, we are protectors of the water.” “Prayer is more powerful than any man-made law…Mother earth is calling out […]
Can Women Lead a Transformation in Global Consciousness?
What we are experiencing now as a global community is the breaking down of old patterns and the beginning of the formation of new ones. This is a painful process.
One Plus Seven Billion Equals One
Instead of pursuing a path of differentiation, maybe we will, at last, give up our ideas of separation and begin to think of ourselves as magnificent individuations of the infinite, loving energy field or All That Is.
Message from AFRICA on the state of the EARTH
In March 2012, Chief Tamale Bwoya joined GPIW’s 10 year anniversary gathering in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya at the Gallmann […]
