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Is Meditation Important?

By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar  The New Indian Express Meditation is important for every human being. Meditation fulfils the natural tendency of human beings to look for a joy that does not diminish, a love that does not get distorted or turn into negative emotions. Some people ask me if meditation is foreign to us. Absolutely not! You have been in meditation for a couple of months before your birth. Continue here...

How To Survive Being Married To A Musician

Via Dearbhla Kelly  elephant journal Los Angeles-based yoga teacher, writer and neurophilosopher Dearbhla Kelly's take on what it's like to be married to a "hot muso" (AKA kirtan wallah Dave Stringer) is very funny, and a perspective we don't often hear. So you’re married to a musician? If you’ve made it that far, you probably already know everything you’re about to read here, so it may be a better use of your time to have a...

The Healing Power Of Kirtan

By Rachel Goldstein at YOGANONYMOUS On that unfortunate day in 2001, the one that changed reality as we know it, my life‐long friend Gabby was running down the West Side Highway, watching in horror as history transpired right before her eyes. I had just returned after finishing producing an ABC Television documentary mini‐series about the Hamptons and was in between apartments. In this time of despair and uncertainty, I...

Shakti Fest 2013 Wrap-Up

After a festival like Shakti Fest, returning to the world takes a while. Always I feel as though the cells in my body have been shaken up & put back together in a different way, and it takes time to integrate this new way of being into the flow of daily life. This year we stayed on-site at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center, the first time we have been in the spiritual atmosphere called the Bhav without a break. The air...