By Natasha Friedman The Yearning of Spiritual Aspiration A student goes to his teacher in ancient India. He asks, “When will...
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Karma Yoga: Serving with Awareness and Love
By Tasha Friedman Few concepts in spirituality are so profoundly simple and dazzlingly complicated at the same time as Karma...
Buddhas Everywhere
By Tasha Friedman There’s a special kind of paranoia that the Tibetan Buddhist tradition says you should cultivate: a sneaking...
Transfiguration Ritual at Hridaya
By Tasha Friedman During Hridaya Yoga Modules, we offer our students an opportunity to participate in a sacred transfiguration ritual,...
Recipe For a Yogi Snow Day
By Tasha Friedman Snow days aren’t only fun for kids! When the land outside becomes a frosty winter wonderland, we...
Yoni Puja: Worshipping Shakti
The most well-known treatise about worshipping the yoni is, without doubt, Yoni Tantra. As is the case in many other...
Shiva Lingam Puja
Worship of the Shiva Lingam “Shaivism is intimately connected with the Shiva lingam. This is a beautiful symbol that in...
Reflections on a 40-Day Dark Retreat
By Kali Aney, reposted with gratitude from kalianey.com “I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in...
Spanda–The Sacred Tremor of the Heart
The origin of the term spanda (“tremor” or “vibration”) is found in the spiritual tradition of the Kashmir Shaivism. Spanda is...
The Dark Night of the Soul: When Fear Becomes a Blessing
By Beata Kucienska “Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved...
A Journey of Self-Healing: Releasing an Ovarian Cyst
By Niamh Kavanagh “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”...