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Corporeal Knowing:The Body’s Intelligence in Relationship
Something has shifted between the two of you. You haven’t spoken about it yet. Maybe nothing has been said at all. But you know. You know it in the way your chest slightly tightens when you walk into the same room. In the particular quality of the silence. In the angle of the body turned […]
"Something has shifted between the two of you. You haven’t spoken about it yet. Maybe nothing has been said at all. But you know. You…"
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Corporeal Knowing:The Body’s Intelligence in Relationship
Something has shifted between the two of you. You haven’t spoken about it yet. Maybe nothing has been said at all. But you know. You know it in…
Adult Spirituality:Choosing Joy
Here is a claim that may sound simple, perhaps even naïve, given everything: we are responsible for our own joy. Not for our circumstances. Life does not offer…
Mumukshutva: The Sacred Longing
Mumukshutvaa MOO · MOOK · SHOOT · VA The burning desire for liberation. The sacred longing for freedom. The conventional translation is the burning desire for liberation —…
Fallow Ground: A Prayer for Rest
There are days the body speaks before the mind is ready to listen. Not dramatically — no fever, no crisis, nothing you could point to and call collapse.…
The Inner Crimp: Anavamala and the Constriction of Shakti
In Kashmir Shaivism, there are said to be three malas — three veils or contractions that obscure our recognition of our own divine nature. Anavamala is the root…
Sat-Chit-Ananda and the Hearth Holder
Sat, chit, ananda: truth, consciousness, bliss. These are named as the three natures of the Divine, embodied by the Guru Tattva, the Guru Principle. But they are not…
The Wave and the Ocean: A Nyaya for Meditation
In the householder path, there is a nyaya — a teaching metaphor — of the ocean and the wave. You are the wave. Each of us is a…
The Guru Tattva: Embodied Grace on the Householder Path
Do you carry a longing you don’t quite know what to do with? Not a small want, but something deeper — a yearning that shows up as hunger…
A Prayer of Descent
Most of us come to prayer asking for things. More health. More clarity. More ease. More of what we want and less of what we fear. This is…
The Triple Fire Drop In: A Guided Meditation for Heart, Belly, and Pelvis
This practice is an invitation to descend into those places and listen. Not to fix. Not to manage. Not to perform healing. Simply to meet what is alive.…
Core Level Awakening: A Practice You Can Do Right Now
When so many people are seekers and healers, why is deep healing so rare? The truth is, well-meaning mental health professionals give us tools to effect incremental change.…
Heart Melting: The Pinnacle Practice
It happened in the middle of a retreat I was leading in the high Cascades of Oregon. A participant had begun speaking about her mother — unresolved anger,…
Hrdaya Yoga: The Yoga of the Heart
At the heart of anything, you will find a sacred longing. Not for comfort, not for safety, not for the absence of pain — but for love to…
What Women Have Told Me
My dear men. Women are angry with us. And they have every right to be. Women are afraid of us. Millennia of being treated as second-class human beings…
When Everything Burns
This essay was written during the pandemic years of 2020–2022, at a moment when every system of coping I had built over a lifetime was being dismantled at…
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