Ever wanted to connect emotionally with a professional you can trust, in a way that fits conveniently into your lifestyle? The internet affords all of us opportunities to get practically anything we want and need delivered directly to our inbox or door. Whether it’s a bargain airline ticket, a hot new pair of shoes, business [...]

One of the best things you can do for yourself is to learn how to breathe through your belly. It’s a simple way of calming your nervous system and cultivating a deep sense of relaxation and inner peace. Your breath is always there with you. There’s nothing to buy, no place to get it from, [...]

Do you think it’s possible to move out of the conditions of mind called addict and trauma survivor? While each carry the burden of feeling trapped in a world of unending pain and suffering, each also holds the potential for relief and transformative change. The question is how willing are you to do what you can for [...]

This past August, I had the pleasure of attending a week long training at the Providence Renewal Centre in Edmonton, Alberta that offered a proven way of facilitating deep healing.  Yoga Nidra is an ancient meditative practice that takes the practitioner into forgotten places within, for the purposes of deep rest, renewal and healing.  Traditionally [...]

If you bring forth that which is within you, then that which is within you will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, then that which is within you will destroy you. The Gnostic Gospels

It is human to have needs.  To eat, to be kept warm and dry, to grow and develop at a pace that is suited to our own natural rhythm, to be touched by loving hands, to find stimulation from our environment, just to name a few.  In fact, these are some of the basic needs of the infant.  And they’re normal.  [...]

  “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved, but hope for the patience to win my freedom.” Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet/Saint

“The best way out is always through.”  Robert Frost Ever wondered if there is anything you can do to grow out of the psychological conditions labelled ‘addict’ and ‘trauma survivor’?  Well, there are.  Eventhough each carry the burden of feeling trapped in a world of unending pain and suffering, each also hold the potential for [...]

We are designed to separate things into dualities:  this and that, black and white, up and down, good and bad, pain and pleasure, etc.  This is the dualistic mind’s way of seeing.  It sees in opposites as it gazes within to the interior relm, and as it gazes outward to the physical world around us.  This is the perceptual place [...]

In the first part of this two part series on Negative Habits & Yoga we looked at the work of Yoga Master BKS Iyengar and how he understands the structure of the mind to perpetuate a negative habit.  Either through an external challenge (like a disappointment) that causes a primary ripple on the surface of [...]