Gayatri Mantra: I love to start my day with this one. A vedic mantra, a prayer to the moment right before the sun rises, to full potential and possibility, to the effulgent source of all. Traditional melody - author unknown.
Arunachala: Arunachala is a mountain in Tamil Nadu, India. It is a considered to be a highly auspicious holy site, and the home of various ashrams and temples. Arunachala means red mountain, and every year people make pilgrimages to the top of the hill carrying embers from a fire to the top of the mountain. The red of the mountain and the fire and flame can also be understood as the flame of our deepest knowing and highest wisdom. This melody is by Mooji.
Radhe Govinda: Radhe is the embodiment of yearning and young love . She is the deeply beloved of govinda (the name for young krishna). Calling to the male and female principle within us to unite, and to remember our wholeness. Melody - Stephanie Snyder.
Jaya Jagatumbe: A mantra for Durga, as sung by Krishna Das. Durga is the embodiment of the fierce warrior goddess. She fearlessly leads us to right action even when everything within us is resisting. Jaya - Victory to! Jagatumbe -mother of the universe. He Ma - calling out to Ma the devine mother, and the part of ourself that knows how to nurture, look after and love fiercely and unconditionally.
Sita Ram: Sita and Ram, queen and king of the universe, masculine and feminine; the integration of both within us. Deeply in love, and many stories of losing each other and finding each other, just as we forget and then remember ourselves. A call to the deepest remembrance of who we are, to trust and faith and perseverance.
Mantras by Candlelight: grab your headphones, and let's chant. No 'good singing voice' required. A wonderful way to get straight back into your heart. *Archive. This is an older video with lower resolution but same high quality sound.
Chant your heart out: let's chant together, let the sound move through, and rest the mind on something good.
Kirtan with Paula & Regina: an uplifting practice with mantras, harmonium, drums and a musical relaxation at the end.
What is Duality and Non Duality?: A basic overview of two different perspectives on the nature of reality as explored in yoga philosophy (and beyond).
Back to Centre: a dynamic full body flow exploring fluid pathways of movement. Move your spine, play with balance and remember how inherently well made you are. *Archive: an older video with lower resolution video & high quality sound.
Find your voice: exploring the relationship between voice, our middle body and the pelvis with playful practices that challenge and investigate this relationship, seeking to free up our voice and embody full self expression. *Archive: an older video with lower resolution video & high quality sound.
Full Body Wiggle: move from the ground up in a fluid, soothing practice to tune up and tune in. Great for days where you want to move but also want to nap. A gift for your nervous system. *Archive: an older video with lower resolution video & high quality sound.
Well made & beautiful: an idea that sits at the heart of my practice, found in the Taittiriya Upanishad (2.7.1), that the essence of all in existence is well made, inherently worthy, whole and complete. How do we use our practice to anchor into that as a baseline as our circumstances shift and change constantly? I share some thoughts and a translation of the verse by Bill Mahony.
Kalikaye Mantra: for kali ma, the fierce goddess, the aspect of ourselves that knows tough love, that can dig ourselves out of the ditch, that can hold the entirety of the full spectrum of experience with all the beauty and all the muck and be with it all. Melody by Paula Andreewitch.
Kali Mantra: for kali ma, the fierce goddess, the aspect of ourselves that knows tough love, that can dig ourselves out of the ditch, that can hold the entirety of the full spectrum of experience with all the beauty and all the muck and be with it all. I learned this fierce melody from Stephanie Snyder.
Harmonium basics: chanting Aum. A beautiful, powerful and simple chant. Aum is the sound of the entire universe, it represents the beginning, creation, all that is sustained, and the dissolving of all back into the vastness it has come from. It is the vibration of existence itself.