Category: Integral Yoga Teachings

Pratyahara

By the proper practice of pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) the senses become fully under your control. They become obedient horses, taking you wherever you want. You become a complete master over them.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 28

We are afraid of death; not because of the unknown,but rather some part of our psyche remembers the experience, shortly after leaving the body, of having to review the life we just lived.

Sound Teachings

The best way to clean your system is to use sound. Simply choose any holy name you like, and keep repeating it.

Giving the Gift of Our Attention: Active Listening & Presence

What is needed most is for the person to be allowed to express their fears and feelings and to have those fears and feelings received by another—simply received.

Bring Peace to the World

All the wars are in the human mind. A little peace can change the mind, and it doesn’t take that much time. The mind is like that. Hatred is just in the mind. A little switching over this way means we fall in love

Isvara Pranidhana

It is translated as surrender to the Supreme Being, but I feel it can be understood also as surrender to the Truth.

Let Go

Surrender here means surrender to the higher will. It’s not that you give up. You give it to God. “God, I tried my best. I couldn’t do it anymore. I give it to You.

Meditation Teacher Training: Inspiration to Deepen Our Practice

“Choose anything you want as an object of meditation as long as it has some elevating thoughts or ideas behind it, something to make you more open, more universal, and more loving.”

The Knower Who Wants to Know

You are not the person who is disturbed, but you know that something or somebody is disturbed in you.

Lives of the Luminaries: Mirabai & Sri Sarada Devi

My Beloved dwells in my heart, so I sing day and night.