From Our Presenters
Sacred Love: Exploring the Essence of Divine Partnership with Matt and Joy Kahn
What makes a relationship truly divine? For spiritual teachers Matt and Joy Kahn, a divine partnership is far more than a union of hearts—it’s a sacred commitment to grow together, anchored in mutual respect, emotional freedom, and spiritual alignment. …
Sacred Sounds and Unity: Snatam Kaur on Kirtan, Spiritual Connection, and Holiday Healing
Grammy-nominated devotional singer, teacher, and author Snatam Kaur has inspired millions with her luminous voice and profound teachings. Her latest album, Heartflow, invites listeners to connect deeply with the energy of the heart through mantra and m …
Transform Your Mind: An Interview with Jeff Warren on Essential Skills for Effective Meditation
In this inspiring interview, we sit down with Jeff Warren, celebrated meditation teacher and author, to explore his accessible approach to mindfulness. Known for his lively style and humor, Jeff—co-author of Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics and founder …
Finding Your True Calling: A Conversation with Tama Kieves on Purpose, Passion and Transformation
In this insightful interview, we sit down with Tama Kieves, bestselling author and visionary career coach, to explore the journey of finding purpose, embracing passion, and navigating life’s transitions. Tama, a former attorney who courageously left th …
A Simple Writing Practice to Let Your Creativity Flow
Creativity is a fundamental part of our humanity. Our creativity is a river that flows within us, and our only task is to move out of our own way, past preconceived ideas and judgments to let our creativity flow out into the world. There are many ways …
Unlock Your Creativity: An Interview with Dayna Macy
How did you first discover your passion for writing? I have always been called to express what is inside me through writing and music. The real issue was moving through cultural and familial blocks so I could more freely express what was within. Growin …
Yoga of Recovery: Why We’re Addicted and How Yoga Brings Back Balance
Yoga is the bridge from unwanted dependency to healthy and happy attachment in moderation. In reality, we are the masters of our minds and our bodies. Yoga shows us the way to regaining control of our thoughts and actions.
Yoga, Nutrition, and the Ashram Experience: An Interview with Mona Sharma
And then the doctors say: Mona, if we go through with the surgery, you might have to wear a pacemaker for the rest of your life. That was when I decided: no more; that’s it. This is not my life. This is not my health, I know there’s a better way. And I knew that I had to get back home, home to my inner self, I had to return to the ashram.
Healing Ourselves: An Interview with Dr. Shamini Jain
A healer is essentially anyone who facilitates healing in another person. And honestly, it doesn’t necessarily just mean energy or spiritual healing. It is someone that believes in what they’re offering, that puts the patient first, that has a positive attitude. The healer isn’t actually doing any healing, it’s the person who is sick that is doing the healing, all the healer does is open up the pathways in the person’s body to facilitate that healing.
Art Of Self-Love with Dr. Shamini Jain
The workshop began with a dance of surrender to Durga. Shamini cleverly avoided inducing the anxiety of performance in our minds by bringing our awareness slowly into the interior: first, she asked us to move. The silence felt deafening, the eyes begged to remain open and the body felt awkward… finally, the music came.
Superfood Oatmeal Power Bowl
By Katie Papo (Ambika) Every morning after my yoga practice, I indulge in a healthy oatmeal power bowl. This is one of my favorite fiber and protein-filled breakfasts, because not only will it keep me full until lunchtime, but it’s easily adaptable for …
Understanding Grief and Love: Presenter Spotlight with Antonio Sausys
Please share what you do. I work with grieving individuals using a somatic psychotherapeutic protocol to address grief symptoms. It enables the re-identification process that follows an important loss. Why do you do what you do? I learned through my ow …
Pain as a Teacher: Listening for Meaning, Message, and Opportunity
by Dr. Paul Epstein, ND Everyone wants to get rid of their pain. But for many individuals with chronic pain symptoms, the healing process requires the opposite: opening to the pain, listening to the pain, and seeing the pain as a teacher and guide. Eng …
2017 Presentations by Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa
We are delighted to share these handouts from K.P. Khalsa’s presentations at the ashram during his program, The Twin Paths of Yoga and Ayurveda for Healthy Living, in March 2017. Herbal Mysticism—Herbs for Spirit & Consciousness Sharpen Yoga Practi …
May Recipe: Gigi’s Famous Tahini Sauce
This yummy and versatile recipe can be used as a delicious topping for veggie burgers, as a dip with vegetables, cooked with eggplant, and more. Make a batch and see for yourself! Ingredients 1 cup (250 ml) tahini paste 1 cup (250 ml) boiling wa …
5 Reasons Your Body Loves a Detox
By Clarissa Kussin There are a million reasons to detox — and probably a million different ways to go about it. But, what must one look for, what’s the best way? I’ve seen from my years in practice that to be completely effective, a detox program needs …
Exploring Dreams for Adventure, Inner Growth, and Illumination
By Craig Sim Webb Every night when you close your eyes, a transformational opportunity awaits — in your dreams! Dreams can offer yogis, yoginis, and other students of life important practical guidance and creative insights and act as a nightly portal t …
Healthy Breakfast — Oatmeal Banana Pancakes
From Joelle Rabion We’ve always been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — and it is! It literally ‘breaks the fast’ and resets your metabolism, allowing you to launch your day as your best self. So, it’s important to use quality …
Resilience: Rewiring the Brain for Well-Being
Mindfulness is the cornerstone of resilience, says Linda Graham, a marriage and family therapist, mindfulness teacher, and expert on the neuroscience of human relationships who presents at the ashram. “I would start,” she says, “with the capacity to co …
Waking Up to 5 Good Reasons Dreams and Yoga Belong Together
by Tzivia Gover, MFA, Certified Dream Therapist When I first started practicing yoga, after a few months of Down Dogs and Sun Salutations, I decided to move beyond yoga postures and learn about yogic philosophy. That’s when I realized I was in trouble. …
5 Simple Practices to Balance Your Body This Winter
by Katie Papo (Ambika) We all know how easy it is to fall out of balance — especially in winter, when we gravitate more toward heavy comfort foods and become less active. Although eating warmer, heavier foods and slowing down in the winte …
The Empowering Transformative Effects of Energy Healing
by Brett Bevell I am looking forward to being back in the sacred beauty and healing space of the ashram this November and wanted to share a little about Energy Healing and the ways it has impacted my life so that it may inspire others to experience dee …
What is Vedanta? Q&A with Swami Medhananda Puri
Swami Medhananda Puri is a distinguished traditional teacher of Vedanta and a regular presenter at the ashram. In this Q&A, he offers responses to a few basic questions about Vedanta (also called Advaita Vedanta). Question: What is the core of Adva …
Ayurveda Recipe: Aloo Gobi (Potato and Cauliflower)
from Bharata Surya A go-to Ayurveda recipe, this classic dish is one of the most popular vegetable dishes in Ayurveda and Indian cooking. Not only is it very tasty, it uses some of the main spices in Ayurvedic cooking (these spices help in the d …
Proper Sitting Techniques for Yogis & Office Workers
Sitting looks easy, but it’s not. With so many people at work or school being required to sit for great lengths of time — not to mention practicing yogis who sit for meditation — no wonder so many of us struggle with what should be a simple task. Angel …
Active Dreaming with Robert Moss
In dreams we unravel mysteries, we meet loved ones, we clarify wishes. In this realm, we are transported beyond the physical into a world where our human minds intersect with minds beyond human understanding. But dreaming is a lost practice, says Rober …
The Miracle of Cell-Level Healing
Presenter Spotlight: Joyce Hawkes and Helen Folsom Please share what you do: We combine science and spirit for health, wholeness and vitality, via Cell-Level Healing. Why? Joyce received a direct calling to this work over 30 years ago and has pursued i …
Reconsidering Pain with Neil Pearson
Presenter Spotlight What do you do? I help people in pain through an integration of pain science, physiotherapy and therapeutic yoga. Why? It is time for a shift in our paradigm of pain, people in it, and the care of pain to one of optimism and integra …
The Importance of Sivananda Yoga with David Frawley
David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) discusses the importance of Sivananda Yoga as a complete spiritual and healing system and describes the Sivananda tradition as one of the few yoga movements with an integral approach to yoga that consistently tea …
Raymond Moody on Grief
Grief, says Dr. Raymond Moody, is a blending of multiple feelings and emotions. “It’s not an illness,” he says. “It’s a normal spiritual experience that is felt in the case of loss, the process of coming to terms with the death of a loved one.” When hi …
Raymond Moody on Near-Death Experiences
Every time Dr. Raymond Moody addresses a group on the topic of near-death experiences, there are folks in the audience who stand up to talk about the friends or loved ones with whom they’ve shared experiences around death. “They’re always, always there …
Dreaming Life Changes
by Tzivia Gover In the early dawn hours on a snowy February morning, I was shaken awake by a dream. When I went to sleep the night before in the dorm room I was sharing with a friend at a yoga retreat center, I’d asked for a “Birthday Dream,” as that m …
Teaching Yoga and Relaxation to Children, by Mira Binzen
“Why practice yoga?” I asked the children at the beginning of our yoga class at Bloom Yoga Studio last week. “How do you think it helps you?” Hands shot into the air. A six-year-old boy wearing new Harry Potter glasses went first. He stated matter-of-f …
Travel Yoga: Essential Tips from Julie Lusk
Making flight arrangements for your next trip to the Bahamas? Plan ahead so you can travel smart and stay balanced. Holistic health specialist Julie Lusk shares this excerpt from her e-book on Travel Yoga to help make your air travel more peaceful and …
De-Stressing 101
By Silvia San Miguel (Surya). Reposted here with the authors’ permission. We all know the negative impact of stress on our physical, mental and emotional health. Another thing is to know what to do to live stress-free. A moderate level of stress is a n …
De-Stressing 102
By Silvia San Miguel (Surya). Reposted here with the authors’ permission. In De-Stressing 101, I looked at the signs of a state of chronic agitation, a precursor of a stress breakdown and proposed a change in lifestyle based on the 5 Points of Yoga tau …
What Does an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist Do?
By Dr. Marc Halpern (Siva) Originally published by Sivananda Yoga Camp. Reposted with permission. An Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist is a specialist capable of utilizing yoga therapies to alter the physiology of the body in a manner that supports the healing …
The Benefits of Restorative Yoga
Article contributed by Nora Benian (Sundari), Restorative Yoga Teacher. In this day and age of being constantly on guard due to an overwhelming bombardment of stimuli, when does one have an opportunity to unwind, relax and recharge? It’s no wonder we a …
Paul Epstein ND – The Mind Body Connection
Dr. Paul Epstein discusses the connection between mind and body in relation to healing chronic pain and other conditions which are significantly impacted by stress.
Easter Symposium Presentation by Rick Hanson, PhD
Easter & Passover Symposium and Celebration: Yoga & Sacred Healing
