During the warmer months, I make this bean salad almost every week. Of all of my bean recipes, this Summer Three Bean Salad with hemp oil is my hands down favorite and lends itself well to daily grazing. Light, earthy, and filling, plus we can add some of the abundant veggies of summer. Even better? […]
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The Gifts of White Tara – Sita Tara by Kimberly F Moore
“White Tara is particularly associated with healing, protecting and stabilizing your life-force.” ~ Gelek Rimpoche Compassion, mercy, unending love, protection, and peace are the gifts that White Tara brings to us. Breathe in Her love and breathe out all that creates chaos in your mind and life. Breathe in Her light and breathe out the […]
Goddess Full Moon Group – LAKSHMI FULL MOON March 1
Lakshmi throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the divine; to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow out from her like light from the sun and wherever she fixes her […]
Aham Prema – I Am Divine Love Mantra by Kimberly F. Moore
Worship does not mean offering flowers. It means offering your heart to the vast mystery of the universe. It means to let your heart pulse with the life of the universe, without thought and without reservation. It means being so in love that you are willing to dissolve and be recreated in every moment. ~ […]
Have You Been to Yoga? Really Been? by Mary Petiet
Part of the journey in my book Minerva’s Owls is an unplanned odyssey, a yogic journey through consciousness. I went to yoga one day on a whim, with no idea how it would change my life for the better. Yoga opened the connection I needed to weave hundreds of disparate strands into one solid rope, […]
Four Ways to Survive the Material World by Mary Petiet
In my book Minerva’s Owls, I weave you into a web of yoga, healing, and the Western wisdom traditions as by sifting through mythic and evolutionary history to explore how we got here and how we can continue to be here in any meaningful way. Minerva’s Owls shifts between the realms of the sacred and […]
Navratri and the Divine Mother Durga by Laura Amazzone
As we face the many ecological, political, social, and religious crises of these shifting times, a 1500 year old myth, the Devi Mahatmya and the millennia-old ritual worship of the Great Goddess Durga provide philosophical and spiritual insight into the powers that can aid us in the deep process of transformation which we face both […]
A Leap of Faith – A Lesson from Hanuman by Kimi Marin
As a lover of myth and a yoga teacher, I live in a world where myth is used to exemplify and understand human behavior. One of the most popular deities among yoga practitioners is Hanuman, a deity in the form of a monkey who plays a part in the great Indian epic, Ramayana. Hanuman is […]
Do You Know Your Alta Major Chakra? by Maura Torkildson
I had a major epiphany this week. Do you ever have those moments when information arrives and you feel like someone nailed your feet to the floor and your skin tingles? I was just so nailed and tingly last evening. Before we go there, however, let’s back track a bit. I decided earlier this year to […]
Mantras for Emotional Eating by Sherianna Boyle
When I was younger my mother used to admire my ability to withhold myself from eating certain foods. “You have such an amazing will power,” she would say. My response was always the same, “Mom, it is not will power, I just don’t use food as a way to deal with my emotions.” You see, […]
