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Fall fire: Yoga Ignition online yoga course is now live
Greetings yogis! Fall is when we put fresh fire into our practice. Classes are back on in El Sargento for those of you who are local...

Rishika
Nov 10, 20233 min read


Life in a world gone mad
When Adi and I were recording our latest episode last week, “Staying Sane in an Insane World,” I talked a little bit about humanity as a...

Rishika
Jun 6, 20222 min read


A tree for Max
I’ve owned about a half dozen dogs over the years, but none was more beloved than Max. He died in 2013 after we discovered he had an...

Rishika
Apr 30, 20214 min read


Everything is connected
I just love this little film (scroll down) featuring my "soul sister," artist Shelley Hocknell Zentner of South Lake Tahoe. Although we...

Rishika
Mar 19, 20211 min read


Breaking: There is nothing wrong with you after all
I once led a group meditation in which I invited the participants to contemplate the notion that because they were expressions of the...

Rishika
Mar 18, 20212 min read


Seeing what Is
The very first lesson in A Course in Miracles states: Nothing I see means anything. And your first thought is probably, "How can that be?...

Rishika
Mar 9, 20216 min read


What happens when a person reaches enlightenment? Pros vs. cons?
What are the pros and cons of enlightenment? For one thing, you won’t have to ask that question.

Rishika
Mar 4, 20212 min read


A meditation on death and grieving
I had another encounter with death yesterday. Its presence was already palpable, what with hundreds of thousands dead and dying from the...

Rishika
Jul 28, 20205 min read


Gravity (a poem)
One happy outcome of yogic practice is that as we clear away our inner clutter, it makes space for Logos to shine through.

Rishika
Jul 12, 20201 min read


Which side are you on, anyway?
We cannot defeat the demons of others any more than we can "defeat" our own. However, we can acknowledge that we contain them.

Rishika
Jun 2, 20204 min read


Fighting our reflections
Not only do we fight ourselves by criticizing our literal reflections, we despise those parts of ourselves that other people model to us.

Rishika
May 19, 20206 min read


Pranayama? But I already know how to breathe...
Pranayama is not just one of the eight limbs of Raja Yoga, it is the platform upon which we build three others: dharana, dhyana & samadhi.

Rishika
Apr 27, 20204 min read


The magic of mantra
Here are five ways to use mantra as part of your daily practice.

Rishika
Apr 26, 20204 min read


Calling in the Divine Feminine
The battle for masculine/feminine balance is as critical to our development as the ongoing skirmishes between good and evil.

Rishika
Mar 8, 20206 min read


You've been manifesting all along
This talk by Abraham-Hicks echoes many of the principles of ThoughtForm Workshop ... and explains in a slightly different language the...

Rishika
Oct 7, 20191 min read


Is the world going through an Awakening?
A spiritual Awakening is still a fairly rare thing ... and if that term is not familiar to you, I encourage you to visit Jim Tolles'...

Rishika
Sep 10, 20193 min read


A dark and stormy night (of the soul)
My apologies for the extended hiatus between blog posts. I have been hunkered down in Mexico riding out the proverbial "dark night of the...

Rishika
Aug 26, 20193 min read
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