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WELCOME TO SOUL PAGES
The Amandari journal
Reflections on Mindfulness & Yoga
from past classes for your inspiration.
Some articles are by other teachers or authors;
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The 7 day Challenge Explained
What is Mindfulness Meditation? Congratulations! You’ve signed on for the meditation challenge. What will we be doing during those 7...
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Boddhicitta - about Being a Heart-Warrior
Boddhicitta is a sanskrit word which means “heart-mind” In Chinese, the written character for the word 'heart' is the same as for the...
3 min read
Sleepwalking? Or Designing your Future
I happened to come across an article recently called “Sleepwalking + Designing for a Healthy Future.” It was an interview with the...
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Balancing Meditation & Life
"Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you ... Look...
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Sitting in Awareness Meditation
As the first class, after taking a break for a while, we’re starting with something simpler. It's a meditation called variously Sitting...
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Feeling at Home
Unpacking boxes in our new house, and starting to get my head around teaching again, I came across a copy of Rumi’s famous poem “The...
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Zen and The Human (Dis)Connection
When I sat with the concept of moving classes onto Zoom, and how to maintain the Human Connection, I thought about connection from a Zen...
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Setting up a Meditation or Yoga Space at Home
Often a yoga studio space exudes a sense of calm, whether it’s the incense, the calming colours, or the objects in the space, like an...
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Our Emotional Google Maps
When we want to go somewhere new, we tend to use Google maps or get a set of directions. But when it comes to finding happiness or peace...
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The Heart of Our Practice
This week the meditation (& yoga) classes are about "heart" in various ways. I found myself sitting with the idea of the Heart of Our...
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How Sound Affects Us - the Power of Our Words
I think we can probably all agree that mindfulness meditation is mostly about keeping our mind in the present moment. Which is not...
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Ignorance is the Opposite of Doubt. Ignorance is a Concrete Mind
In Zen we often talk about ignorance, or an ignorant mind. Ignorance in mindfulness doesn’t always mean not knowing things or being "as...
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Breath is the Soul of Yoga
Often in yoga classes we see a nearly-exclusive focus on asana (postures), and most people think that this is what Yoga is: a get-fit...
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Sitting Quietly, Gaining Ideas, Doing Nothing Extra
I so enjoyed putting together something about the concept of "no gaining", even more so because, in the process, I came across a couple...
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The 59 Lojong Slogans
Lojong was originally brought to Tibet by an Indian Buddhist teacher named Atisha. It is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist...
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