{"id":9802,"date":"2026-04-08T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/?page_id=9802"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:36:28","slug":"our-way-to-here","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/our-way-to-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Way To Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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by Joan Ruvinsky<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Our Way to Here is a luminous collection of essays, poems, and reflections by spiritual teacher Joan Ruvinsky. Rooted in nondual understanding and
resonant with the Advaita tradition of Jean Klein, these writings bring spirituality fully into the textures of everyday life, embracing love and
loss, birth and death, the ordinary and the ineffable.<\/p>

Spanning decades of writing, this collection traces a life devoted to truth. With a voice that is precise, playful, and uncompromisingly honest,
Ruvinsky keeps pointing to what has always been present: awareness itself, both intimate and impersonal. Our Way to Here accompanies the reader in
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is a multi-faceted gem of a book. Joan Ruvinsky's poetry is raw, honest, direct, funny, and soul stirring. But more than that, her words point to deep and universal truths, each poem reminding me of what I've always known but somehow lost sight of in the fray. As a woman, it was especially refreshing to find Joan powerfully speaking to the same nondual reality most commonly addressed by male writers, but in a markedly different voice. I feel changed as a result of reading these poems -- opened, renewed, grateful, embraced, invited into new spaces and ways of seeing. A deep bow to Joan's close student Kathleen Knipp for shepherding these poems to publication. I will be buying multiple copies of this book to share with friends. \u2013 \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOur Way to Here, by spiritual teacher, contemporary sage and nature mystic Joan Ruvinisky invites us to love and receive love; it demystifies nondual spirituality, bringing us down to earth\u00a0enabling us to recognize and remember what has always been here.\u00a0Her beautifully written musings, poetry and essays evoke that\u00a0which is beyond words. The\u00a0unique, often playful expression of her lived understanding is a transmission of truth from a woman who has awakened and is eager to share the wonder as well as ordinariness of it all.\u00a0Joan has presented non-dual spirituality with a heart grounded in everyday reality. This is a book to savor and sit with in silence, reading a passage after quieting the mind, just\u00a0being with the flavor of stillness and joyful return home.\u00a0\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSimplifying non-dualism is in itself a considerable undertaking, but to do it with poetry is an amazing feat!\u00a0\u00a0Joan\u2019s unique style invites us to apply the nondual approach as a steadying influence on the ups and downs of the material world.\n\u00a0\nBy reading just one poem a day, Our Way to Here\u00a0gently guides us toward a balanced, sacred life.\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOur Way to Here is a touchstone for me, honest, pure and inspiring. The poems and prose are raw and stripped of unnecessaries. Joan Ruvinsky\u2019s voice is clear as a mountain stream that reveals the beauty and not-beauty of the stones and the mud as it tumbles toward the river of being and not-being, the ocean of love. This collection invokes chuckles and tears. Thank you Kathleen Knipp and all who have helped preserve and amplify Ruvinsky\u2019s authentic voice.\u00a0\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT, C-IAYT<\/span>author of\u00a0Yoga for Depression, Yoga Skills for Therapists, Yoga for Your Mood Deck. \u00a0<\/span><\/cite>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIn Joan Ruvinsky\u2019s poetry, we hear the immense silence of the desert, the mountain and the sky. Her words don\u2019t tell us about this silence \u2013 they invite us into a state of joyous awareness in which the silence emerges from within.\u00a0Our Way to Here\u00a0gains poignancy and power as it slides from discussing the non-duality of life to the non-duality of death: the death of the author\u2019s mother, the death of the author\u2019s sister and finally, the death of the author herself. At the end, we are left like Joan on her deathbed. We are healed from \u201cthe misperception of separateness.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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our way to herepraise \u00a0 our way to here by Joan Ruvinsky Our Way to Here is a luminous collection of essays, poems, and reflections by spiritual teacher Joan Ruvinsky. Rooted in nondual understanding andresonant with the Advaita tradition of Jean Klein, these writings bring spirituality fully into the textures of everyday life, embracing love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9802","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9802"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9802\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}