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Every two weeks or so, Swamiji gives an hour of discourse, guided meditation and answers questions online.These Zoom transmissions used to be found as individual posts on this blog, but they are now to be found on a new system…
With the return of people to the Ashram, we are also able to restart residential sessions of the Yoga Teacher Training Course. We have had two courses in September, now Teacher Training has finally returned live. For the last year…
We re-started residential courses a couple of weeks back, after being closed to visitors for 18 months …. Actual people walking through the gate, unpacking their bags, settling in, walking the hills, breathing mountain air. Welcome back. We’ve been so…
Swami Nishchalananda gave this satsang online, to coincide with the festival which celebrates the Guru principle in the Yogic tradition. There are of course other spiritual traditions that also extol the virtues of the Teacher-Student relationship. After the statement that…
Here is a recent 20-minute Yoga Nidra recording from Tulsi, for you to enjoy
In this satsang Swamiji recommends the medicine of daily awe and wonder to counteract the negative effects of so much fear in the collective psyche at this time. 5 minutes of awe and wonder in the face of nature’s beauty…
In this satsang Swamiji stresses the importance of practice, urging us to set aside at least one hour per day for connecting with or opening to our fundamental identity. He also speaks to the challenges brought to all of us…
This poem was written over two years ago. I had always enjoyed working outside in the Ashram grounds but the spring of 2017 was when I first took the drum outdoors and played with the trees and the birds for…
We said we’d build a Yoga hall in Zambia…… and we did. I’m signing in from Eastern Zambia, as I had to stay here for a further three months because of the UK being in ‘lockdown’ etc. Here life is…
On the current Ashram Yoga Teacher Training Course, the student teachers have been guided in their study of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the core inspirational texts of the Yoga tradition. Their latest assignment was: In a few paragraphs, give…
Read More Reflections on The Bhagavad Gita by Amanda Jameson
In early December 2020 I was asked to do a voice and mantra session for Ashram team members. I had not offered such a session for months. I took the opportunity to use that class to introduce a long mantra…
In this satsang Swamiji introduces and highly recommends the Yoga Vasistha as an advaitic text full of startling wisdom. From this text he reads and illuminates two verses which, if pondered deeply upon, can revolutionise our understanding of the nature of cause…
… and in Africa…. Ulingana.com
