A Sailor’s Voyage to Here
My first year of studying the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam put language to my lifelong felt sense of “That which is beyond words.” Now, at the end of my second year, I view my life’s journey through the lens of the text. Using a favorite sailing metaphor, I was a boat happily going nowhere on the open sea […]
yoga nidra: resting the mind
A soft and soothing practice for those times when the mind is active or when the nervous system is agitated.
practices from the pratyabhijñāhṛdayam
Plunge deeply into the rich teachings of the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam, a primary text of Kashmir Shaivism, by engaging with practices suggested in the text. During each gathering, we’ll devote 45 minutes or so to one meditation technique. There will be time for debrief and discussion, then continued conversation and work with the practice between gathering.
yoga nidra: the breath of life
Waves of breath caress the physical body and flow beyond the boundaries of skin, soothing and smoothing and softening. The breath, neither mine nor yours. The same breath touching everyone, the same breath uniting everyone and everything. The same breath touching all beings, those who are suffering, those whose lives have been torn apart by […]
yoga nidra: resting as that which we are
Cycling through each of the elements of the basic framework of our practice, quickly at first and then a second time with greater depth, we experience each moment as it arises and leads us to a vastness that is ineffable, yet palpable and familiar.
yoga nidra: being oneself
Who shows up during our time of practice? The inner critic? The perfectionist? The dreamer? The martyr? The victim? The good student? The spiritual one? What do these various personas feel like? What does it feel like to be oneself? What is the feeling of self-consciousness? What is the feeling of being unguarded? Free of […]
yoga nidra: awake while asleep
Playing with the boundary between wakefulness and sleep, we enter into nidra, or yogic sleep during which we may discover that even while we are “sleeping” awareness is present.
yoga nidra: form is emptiness, emptiness is form
A practice that begins with a tune sung by Kermit the Frog, moves through an exploration of the elements in which we simultaneously experience apparently contradictory sensations, which leads us to a somatic understanding of the dictum from the Heart Sutra.
yoga nidra: who am i?
A quiet practice during which we explore the perennial question, “Who am I?”
yoga nidra: fully human, fully divine
Without ignoring or denying the story of our lives, the grip of identity can relax allowing us to experience that which is beyond story. Through the simple practice of attuning to body, breath and the natural upwelling of gratitude, we open the lens wider than our dramas and traumas and reconnect with Source.