Bowing from the shadow side

This month I’ve chosen parsvottanasana as the pose to focus on in my classes. The name translates as “intense side stretch,” but for me it means “intense hamstring stretch”, which further translates into “intensely uncomfortable stretch.” For this reason I tend to avoid this pose at all costs. My left hamstring has been slightly pulled [...]

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The lure of endarkenment

I’ve been feeling a downward pull in my life lately. It has been manifesting itself as a nondescript dread; I keep having the sense that something really bad is going to happen. I’ve been on spiritual and psychological “underworld journeys” before in my life, but this one feels different. I am still fully aware of [...]

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Stop spiritual windowshopping! Holistic spiritual mentoring in support of practice spirituality

These spiritual windowshoppers,
who idly ask, ‘How much is that?’ Oh, I’m just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.
What is spent is love, and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.
Where did you go? “Nowhere.”
What did you [...]

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