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3/23 Yoga Video | Our Healing Earth | COVID-19 Proclamation
Aloha, Friends, Yogis, Cultural Creatives, and Neighbors! We are all part of this healing Earth. Isolated health is an illusion. Healing ourselves and working to resolve the contradictions in the human-Earth ecology is the same work. The current pandemic reminds me that the Universe doesn’t do anything against us. It is FOR us. The coronavirus pandemic is FOR us, not against us. We will come out of this more whole, more richly integrated, and more
...read more3/16 Evolution to Pandemic Solutions | Yoga & Climate Change, Part 4
The Big Bang was the moment everything started, when the building blocks of all life burst into action 13.7 billion years ago. Atoms, cells, bacteria, little bugs like viruses and fleas, fish, four-leggeds, two-leggeds and flying things flourished. Now, as our pale blue dot in the ocean of space roasts in a global fever, we face massive threats to our survival and planetary health, but it’s not too late to ask why and how we
...read more3/12 Morning Songs | Ancestral Symphonies
This morning, when the sun had not yet risen and showers of first light were spreading wings over the volcanoes, I listened for the sound. Looking out at the fertile hills of Hawaii, I saw the growth of beauty and heard heavenly music from every bird and blade of grass. The last time I remembered feeling so awed by the symphony of life was the day I came out of the coma and remembered that
...read more11/12 Emotions & Manifestation | Yoga & Climate Change, Part 3
SACRED MOMENTS There is a sense of magic in some prayers. They move us beyond the superficial words to the depths of our inner worlds. Speak aloud this traditional Ute prayer, an invocation to the world of the spirits. Feel the soothing sounds and visual images settle into you. Let your nervous system feel their subtle effects, savoring the prayer’s meaning. “Earth teach me stillness, as the grasses are stilled with light. Earth teach me
...read more10/31 Halloween & Our Ancestors | Yoga for Happiness
Halloween may have lost much of its spiritual significance for costumed Trick or Treaters and candy-stuffed nightwalkers, but Celtic and Druidic traditions of the harvest, feasting, and meeting up with the ancestors have survived for a lucky few. In Hawaii, this is the start of Makahiki, a three-month-long celebration when regional clans complete the harvest, put aside status and rivalries, lay down their swords, and feast, make art, serve offerings, play games, and aim communal
...read more10/21 The Uncertainty of Being & Shraddha: Knowing, Not Knowing, & Saving Our Planet
In the spiritual and socio-cultural experiments that matter most in today’s fast-changing world, among the most important is the exploration of consciousness that will either guide us to deep and abiding change or into the mouth of the global-heating beast. Every time we sit down for meditation, take a silent walk in the woods, or step on our yoga mat for asana practice, we are engaging in the sacred conversation that leads us to reconnecting
...read more10/17 Explore the Healing Matrix with Fascial Fitness
New Workshop & Master Classes | Free Gift for Early Registration How do you become the change that is needed in your life —- and in the world? On and off the mat, Yoga is a powerful path to becoming more radiantly healthy, spiritually awake, and passionately engaged. If you’d like to move beyond poses — and explore the depth and breadth of this cutting-edge yet ancient holistic practice — — join us for a
...read more9/23 FINDING COMMON GROUND - ETHICS
As people all over the Earth begin to wake up to the climate emergency and demand change, and in honor of all the children of the Earth who are inheriting our only planet, let’s look honestly at our predicament. While climate change is an ecological issue, an economic issue, and a social issue, we know that human actions expressing the human heart are really at its root. Climate change then, is an ethical issue. Climate
...read more9/4 Staying True | Mauna Kea Volunteer Sonny Ganaden
Aloha Kakou! The Hawaiian people and Mauna Kea protectors resisting the TMT are setting a stellar example of pacific resistance by staying true. They are true to the lineages of Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, and countless activists whose devotion to non-violent civil disobedience has changed history. It was all women on the front line who linked arms and were prepared to face arrest, or permanent injury, on July 17th as they blocked the start
...read more8/29 Yoga for Your Natural State
Aloha Noble Yogis, Activists, and Friends! I trust you’re doing all you can to create a sustainable, happy world. I’m planning tomorrow’s Evolutionary Yoga Flow practice at Paleaku Gardens Peace Sanctuary and wanted to send you a personal invitation to join us. And, to give you more energy for the journey, I also want to share my simple 12-word description of what Yoga is: Touching Nature tenderly with roots in the Earth, reaching for the
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