yoga
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After my own experience of being nearly wrapped up in a yoga cult, I am watching this documentary and it is bringing it all up again. Kundalini is where my spiritual yogic journey began. Guru Jagat or Katie, the subject of the film is another notch on the Yogi Bhajan cult belt. Though she never Read more
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We don’t often talk about how hard it can be to live in the northland. Depression can be a really good friend. The cold, the dark, the isolation, all handy to drown yourself in and this year has been especially hard. The winter has been endless and the hope of spring a figment of our Read more
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I became fixated by the notions of cults when Yogi Bhajan first started getting negative press. A very naive response from me was that it couldn’t be true. He himself had taught us not to mess with your students. All through teacher training was this notion that being a kundalini teacher was a spiritual calling Read more
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When I started my path to yoga I was living in the woods of Northern Minnesota living the life of poverty. It was a difficult time filled with horrors of child custody issues, custody payments and a husband that found working at a job oh so hard…and me, I had an art degree so yeah Read more
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It has taken years for me to understand the level of trauma I was born into. A long story short…My mother was adopted and claimed to not know much about her family of origin, my Dad was a red neck simple angry man, our house was filled with secrets. They both had very public jobs Read more
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I rewatched the Bikram documentary on Netflix and I recommend it especially if you are still wrapped up in the mindset of a devotee. The horror of these teachers coming to our country with its vast differences from their own countries has wrecked havoc on our people. None of the girls raped by Birkam wanted Read more
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I had the great privilege of spending the bulk of my early adult years in northern Minnesota. And let me say, after 30 some years I do believe these people may just have a cult love for winter. But it’s a true God believing place, because the cold will take the breath from your lungs. Read more
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Showing my students how each of us manifests evidence is one of the best teaching tools I know. It is hard to dispute what is right in front of you especially if it’s right under your nose. When we look with heart-felt eyes we can see the hand of God at work in our lives, Read more
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It would seem we are living consciously. You look around people are doing their work going about their lives but if we but scratch the surface most everyone is asleep at the wheel. How many times have you been driving your car only to realize you have been driving without even being aware of it? Read more
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The path of the human is that of constant meditation. Whatever your mind is focused on becomes your meditation. Focused on what you don’t have, focused on being to fat or thin, big or small, rich or poor, all of those thoughts become your meditation and your reality. The truth is we are all meditating Read more
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