Meditation as a Healing Practice: Part III
In Jon Kabatt-Zinn’s 2011 talk at Oslo University, he describes mindfulness as awareness to the present moment without judgement. He...
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Susan Kiskis
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Meditation as a Healing Practice: Part II
A simple profound way to meditate is using mantras. Dr. Shanida Nataraja shares another method by Kabat-Zinn in her book, The Blissful...
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Susan Kiskis
Nov 3, 20212 min read
Meditation as a Healing Practice
Meditation and yoga are often separated from one another and viewed as alternative paths in the West. If you want to learn meditation,...
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Susan Kiskis
Sep 20, 20212 min read
OM ॐ
OM. We chant it at the beginning and most likely at the end of yogasana class. We take a deep breath, bring our hands to heart center in...
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Susan Kiskis
Sep 11, 20213 min read
What is My Purpose?
There was this book I used to read my daughter when she was little called "Are You My Mother?" It's about a baby bird who goes searching...
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Susan Kiskis
Sep 8, 20213 min read
Yoga is a Way of Living
Over the past few years I find myself continuing to pull at the layers of yoga, looking for some clue as to what it is, where it came...
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Susan Kiskis
Jul 9, 20214 min read
Wisdom from Our Ancestors
Less than a year ago I was collecting data for a book on yoga. Yoga teachers and practitioners anonymously answered questions for me on...
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Susan Kiskis
Jul 7, 20212 min read
We Are Our Own Bondage and Liberation
Swami Satchidananda Saraswati said that we are our own bondage and our own liberation. Bondage would seem to imply that something has us...
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Susan Kiskis
Jul 5, 20213 min read
What the Science of Ayurveda Says About Summer
If yoga is the science of guiding the self back to Brahman, Ayurveda is the science of how to support the body and mind for the spirit to...
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Susan Kiskis
Jul 2, 20213 min read
A Conversation with Yoga
When most students in the West enter yoga, it is through the door of Raja yoga, specifically focusing on the slice of Raja known as asana...
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Susan Kiskis
Jul 1, 20213 min read
Practice & Pilgrimage
Image: The Pyrenees Mountains, Camino de Santiago, 2018 The prayer flags hanging in my yard are folded and wrapped over each other, so...
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Susan Kiskis
Jun 30, 20212 min read
Yoga's Invitation of Self-Inquiry
Often, in yoga practiced in the U.S., we do not discuss the philosophy that builds yoga. I myself will attest to this as a teacher....
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Susan Kiskis
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Mantras for Lakshmi
To be recited on Diwali: ॐ श्रीं ह्रीं क्लीं ऐं सौं ॐ ह्रीं क ए ई ल ह्रीं ह स क ह ल ह्रीं सकल ह्रीं सौं ऐं क्लीं ह्रीं श्री ॐ Om Shring...
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Susan Kiskis
Jan 28, 20174 min read
An Evening with Krishna Das
For 2 months I sat on my interview notes with Krishna Das. Sure, the holidays were afoot, my husband and I were traveling, and my...
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