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10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - I'd Rather Be Bad at A... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks Flo for reading and commenting :)
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10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - I'd Rather Be Bad at A... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks Jay for reading and commenting. I'm glad my piece spoke to you. Keep up the Ashtanga practice!
Blessings
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10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - This is Why I Practice. · 0 replies · +1 points

thanks darren! grateful for your kind words and support.
frances

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - This is Why I Practice. · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks Jodeen. So happy to share this with my community and I thank you for sharing it with your students.
Blessings
Frances

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - The Secret of Great Te... · 1 reply · +2 points

preach it, sister!
full on agreement over here.
loving your articles here on ej, peg! so refreshing to see this kind of honesty and authenticity.
blessings,
frances

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Bhagavad-Gita, Plain a... · 1 reply · +1 points

Looking forward to this new series. Thanks for your service, Vraja Kishor das and Thaddeus too. Haribol!

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - The Shallowness of Hat... · 3 replies · +7 points

The Babarazzi is a collective, so no, the "royal we" is not employed, but rather a legit "we".
Also, Aghori Babarazzi was actually referring to caves, you know, wet dank dark cold caves in the Himalayas, and not about "inward looking". No need to read so much into all this. His point was pretty clear there. Modern "yogis" constantly spout this line "You don't have to go to a cave to do yoga". Babarazzi's point was along the lines of....Maybe a cave would do you some good, because seriously, most people can't sit down at the dinner table for more than 30 minutes without grabbing their iphone obsessively, so how can they claim they don't need the solitude and austerity of a cave to experience nirodha. Caves are scary. Pretty om shanti yoga studios are not. It's much easier to simply avoid dealing with yourself and your baggage when you are in a pleasant, easy, sense-gratifying environment.

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Ayahuasca By Any Other... · 1 reply · +2 points

Great piece Tommy. Thank you for sharing your perspective. Like most other commentators here, I agree that everything has it's time and place and can be helpful on our spiritual path. What I can't really wrap my mind around is how a bunch of new-agey Californians can possibly conceive that their recreational use of a powerful medicine taken out of context will really "heal the world". From my experiences with healers, the greatest ones don't shout about it or advertise it loudly to the general public, so I have a hard time believing that a truly legit shaman would be leading "journeys" with Santa Monica yoga enthusiasts every weekend...but that's my own take on it :)
I really respect your point of view and your honesty about your emotions and questions with this latest trend. Upon reading your piece I remembered studying Kundalini Yoga once with Gurushabd when he very candidly stated that "If it's this close to the Aquarian Age and you need to use drugs to connect you with spirit then you are missing the point entirely."
Yoga is my anti-drug :)
Sat Nam.

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - The Wonder of Surya Na... · 0 replies · +1 points

Lovely piece Bobbie, thanks for sharing your insights.
Blessings.

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Greater than sex? The ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Lovely. Much more in line with the tradition of yoga (bhakti and otherwise) than all the constant sex sex sex all over EJ.
Unconditional love, agape, prema - this is the heart of spiritual practice and the foundation for a happy, healthy and harmonious life.

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