Hridaya Yoga France Blog

By Tasha Friedman There’s a special kind of paranoia that the Tibetan Buddhist tradition says you should cultivate: a sneaking...

By Tasha Friedman “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” (St. Francis of...

By Tasha Freidman During Hridaya Yoga Modules, we offer our students an opportunity to participate in a sacred transfiguration ritual,...

By Tasha Friedman Snow days aren’t only fun for kids! When the land outside becomes a frosty winter wonderland, we...

The most well-known treatise about worshipping the yoni is, without doubt, Yoni Tantra. As is the case in many other...

By Antoaneta Gotea According to Tantra, all of creation is a play between Shiva (consciousness) and Shakti (the energy or...

Worship of the Shiva Lingam “Shaivism is intimately connected with the Shiva lingam. This is a beautiful symbol that in...

By Kali Aney, reposted with gratitude from kalianey.com “I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in...

Hridaya Yoga considers that the darkness and the abyss is nothing to be afraid of because who we really are...

The origin of the term spanda (“tremor” or “vibration”) is found in the spiritual tradition of the Kashmir Shaivism. Spanda is...

By Beata Kucienska “Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved...

What Restricted Vegetables Can Show Us about the Yogic Lifestyle By Tasha Friedman There’s nothing as mouth-watering as the smell...

By Niamh Kavanagh “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”...

Uddalaka had a son called Shvetaketu. When he was twelve, his father said to him, “It is time for you...