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Have you been wanting to learn the scientific techniques of yoga meditation? 

Are you a veteran meditator who has come across some pitfalls or plateaus? 

I am a Kriyaban yogini and graduate student of Self-Realization Fellowship who has

been teaching meditation for over 40 years.  My mentor was Yogacharya Oliver…

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By Brad Kearns



If your mind is racing and you are having difficulty falling asleep, a few minutes of simple but effective breathing exercises can help calm your nervous system on a chemical level and lead to greater success in hitting the sack. The awareness and control of breath has been a central component of yoga, martial arts and Taoism for thousands of years. There are dozens of different methods and exercises you can explore through a good teacher or book. The practice of… Continue

Here's a wonderful prayer to assist you with the forgiveness process:



Oh Divine Master,

Grant that I may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved as to love,

For it is in giving that we receive,

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned

And it is in dying that we are born

To eternal life.



- St. Francis of Assisi



With the economy as it is around the world, we may need to go… Continue

Satyagraha prisoners learned crafts and practical principles of self-sufficiency and self-discipline. Ahmadabad Textile Labor Association protested with Satyagraha, and became a model for Indian trade unions.



Gandhi went nationwide with Satyagraha. It was a political downfall. A massacre occurred killing hundreds of Indians and wounding over a thousand. Gandhi called off the civil disobedience. He usually was released from jail because of his fasting which made him… Continue

Gandhi set forth to boycott courts and councils. It was a boycott to stop British rule. Gandhi wrote to the Viceroy returning his medals and decorations. Gandhi had served only one term as President of the Congress. People said that he was a super President.



He started having the Indians make Khadi, a hand spun cloth. It became the "livery of freedom." He did a boycott of foreign cloth. Gandhi each day spun cloth for half an hour. He also fasted every Monday.



In 1930,… Continue

Gwyneth Paltrow hit the red carpet for the Bent on Learning Benefit in New York City last Wednesday. The non-profit organization arranges yoga and meditation classes in the city's public schools. The 36-year-old actress has promoted her healthy living lifestyle on her website Goop, which the New York Times ridiculed as "fatuous" and "puzzling."

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Gandhi did experiments with fasting and dieting throughout his lifetime. He had a vow of brahmacharya (control of the sense-sexual and fasting). He thought you could use your energy for work.



He accepted an opening to work in South Africa as a counsel for a Muslim business. He received racial threats and violence in South Africa. During the South African Boer War of 1899-1902 and again in 1906 during the Zulu rebellion, he nursed plague-stricken patients shunned by others in… Continue

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, was born on October 2, 1869. He was born in Porbandor. That is the seaport capital of Kathiawar, now in the state of Gujarat. He was shot by a Hindu fanatic on January 30, 1948. On January 30, 1948, Gandhi died by 3 shots point blank from Nathuram Godse. Godse was a Brahman extremist. Gandhi fell dead from the shots. But with the few remaining moments, Mahatma Gandhi pronamed the killer. Godse thought, because of Gandhi's befriending Muslims, that Gandhi weakened… Continue

Dear Ones, thought you might enjoy this joke:

What do you do with a horn player that can't play?

Give him two sticks, put him in the back, and call him a percussionist.

What do you do if he can't do that?

Take away one of the sticks, put him up front, and call him a conductor.

Have a great day!

Sharon K.
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