Matarani Ki Jai...! Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, known affectionately known as “Amma,” is a world-renowned spiritual leader and humanitarian. Throughout her life, she has embraced more than 40 million people worldwide, sometimes sitting nearly 24 hours to do so. Amma’s humanitarian organization, Embracing the World, is an NGO with consultative status with the United Nations’ [...]
The Library of Wisdom and Compassion Venerable Thubten Chodron is a pioneering American Buddhist nun, and founder of Sravasti Abbey. She has been working on The Library of Wisdom and Compassion book series with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet now available through Wisdom Publications. LA YOGA was lucky to get an early [...]
Who is Yogiraj Siddhanath SatGurunath? A “Yogi” means a person who practices Yoga. In my guru’s case, it happens to be Kriya Yoga. This is not a type of Hatha Yoga, like Iyengar or Ashtanga yoga. Although Kriya Yoga involves some bending and stretching, it is primarily a pranayama practice which involves moving the breath [...]
Polish your mind to deflect the negative influence of ill wishes Today, we live in a very stressful society. To add to the stress of everyday life, the world has become increasingly unstable due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and inflation, to name a few. It seems as if problems and troubles constantly [...]
Gratitude is a Healing Power; Gratitude is a Spiritual Practice As I lay on the massage table under the palm leaf ceiling, the curandero walked around me saying, “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” in between phrases spoken in Spanish and other languages I didn’t recognize. He sometimes moved part of my body in [...]
Accept the Challenge to Raise Your Personal Bar Today’s world presents new opportunities for growth. Many aspects of our lives are over, or are leaving our awareness. We have a new world before us where great things are possible for living our highest potential. We are living in the era of a New Earth. This [...]
What You Need to Know about Vision Boards Vision boards, Affirmations and Intentions. My close friends raised eyebrows when I got into all this “woo-woo” stuff years ago. Now these practices are becoming more mainstream (and sometimes even backed by research). It’s become easier to articulate and experience why they are worthwhile and actually [...]
How Knowing Your Soul's Purpose Gives Meaning to Life A cousin of mine died just days ago. Have you noticed a lot of people dying lately? Why do I mention death? Because so many people die with their music still in them. They have been so distracted by the world, they never found their soul’s [...]
Your Higher Self is Speaking to You When you observe your own inner dialogue it’s most often in the language of your mother tongue? So if you were raised to speak English, your inner thoughts are in English. If you were raised to speak Spanish, you would have inner dialogue in Spanish (even if you [...]
What is Intuition? You know those times when you have felt a strong conviction that some particular outcome would happen and lo and behold it did! This could have very well been an example of you using a superpower that you hold: Intuition. Intuition is the ability to tap into the spirit realm and gain [...]