Hari-kirtana is an author, mentor, and yoga teacher who shares his knowledge and experience of how the yoga wisdom tradition can guide us toward meaningful and transformative spiritual experiences.
How to Stay Sane in a Crazy World
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Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week with my good friend, Sara Sheikh. Sara is a yoga teacher and a licensed clinical social worker with a trauma-informed holistic approach to therapy. She provides mental health counseling to people of all ages who are hoping to shed behaviors, feelings, and ways of thinking that no longer work for them. Her work is about empowering people to mindfully engage in a process of self-discovery and transformation.. Hari and Sara will explore questions about how we can keep it together in a world that seems designed to pull the rug out from under our mental, emotional, and spiritual sanity, such as:
I hope you'll join us for our next COMMUNITY CONVERSATION a free monthly study group Live via Zoom @ 12:00 pm Eastern Time NEXT CONVERSATION: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 HOW TO STAY SANE IN A CRAZY WORLD This conversation will be recorded and available for replay on my YouTube channel Registration is free – CLICK HERE to get updates and the Zoom link! Community Conversation is a FREE monthly online gathering where we connect spiritual ideas to real life by talking about personal challenges we all share, difficult issues we all face, and how the ancient spiritual teachings of the yoga tradition offer practical guidance for navigating our way through life in the modern world. If you haven't registered for our free monthly Community Conversations yet, CLICK HERE to get updates and the Zoom link for the live discussion, and the recording link so you can listen to the replay if you can't join us live. If you're already registered, you'll get reminder emails with the Zoom link next week. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on cultural appropriation and the most constructive ways we can respond to it. Hoping to see you next Wednesday, - Hari-k |
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Hari-kirtana is an author, mentor, and yoga teacher who shares his knowledge and experience of how the yoga wisdom tradition can guide us toward meaningful and transformative spiritual experiences.
Greetings Reader - Cultural appropriation is a significant concern in our yoga community. However, despite our best intentions, we can unintentionally engage in it. And the reason may surprise you. Cultural appropriation in yoga is often seen as reducing practices to trendy aesthetics, taking traditional teachings out of context, and ignoring colonial histories that led to a commodified version of yoga that caters to Western consumer culture. While these points are all valid, they stem from...
Greetings Reader - At the beginning of the Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna, the hero of the Gita, is paralyzed by grief and confusion as he foresees the death and destruction that an imminent confrontation will surely bring about. At the end of the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna, the teacher of the Gita, reassures Arjuna that the cause for which he’s been called to fight is just, his victory certain, and he has no reason to be fearful. Of course, a lot happens in between the beginning and the end to bring...
Greetings Reader - If you do a search on “spiritual leadership,” you’ll find descriptions that assume “spiritual leadership” means leading people along a spiritual path or inspiring people to engage more fully in their spiritual lives. That’s one way to think about spiritual leadership, and it’s a great way, but I prefer to think of spiritual leadership as the exemplary application of spiritual ideas and values to solving the problems of the material world. Among all yoga wisdom texts, the...