“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.” ~ bell hooks Times are changing and shifting in ...

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There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

Elephant HQ is decorated with Yoloha props. A warm Invitation to Slow Down—for Those who are used to Pushing.

What Am I Doing & Why? This is a continuation of the exploration – Part 1: Samadhipadah is here, and the Introduction to this enterprise is here. Please feel free to join in the discussion! This ...

We can talk about spirituality or yoga or meditation or mindfulness all day, but life has a way of testing whether our understanding is superficial, or thorough. There’s a famous story about Naropa ...

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95 years old, 27 of them in prison. He was born just after World War I and he lived to see a black man elected president of the USA. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the ...

Everyone and their mom knows, at least intellectually, that the whole of creation is in a state of endless revolution. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “No same man could walk through ...

Where do these postures come from? When did asana stop meaning seat and start meaning posture? What were the original postures? It turns out that Yoga was not always the ‘body-positive’ movement of ...

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