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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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An Inside Job: Creating a Home Practice Space.
Hello beautiful people! I hope that you are all well. I've been in touch with some of you over the last week and know that for some this...
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The Power of Attention: Change your World.
In Mindfulness meditation we're always talking about attention. The definition of Mindfulness is 'paying attention in a particular way'....
4 min read
Non- attachment & family - giving the people we love the freedom to be who they are...
"Upadana" (Non-attachment) is one of the corner-stones of our mindfulness meditation practice. (and in yoga too, actually.) In many...
5 min read
With Each and Every Breath We Take...
Breath feelings or energies in the body…what does that mean and what is it exactly? Breath and the feelings or energies it generates, can...
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May you be happy and peaceful. An Inward Journey Through the 5 Yoga Koshas.
PANCHA KOSHA MEDITATION – 5 KOSHAS MEDITATION. The koshas serve as a guide for the deeper practices of yoga. The path of yoga is one of...
6 min read
You can Take a Deep Breath because Happiness is not Difficult
Inspired by some elements of the poem "The Third Patriarch of Zen Hsin Hsin Ming by Seng-T'san" (The entire poem is here) "Happiness is...
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The Third Patriarch of Zen Hsin Hsin Ming by Seng-T'san
(There is another, also amazing, modern translation of The Third Patriarch of ZenHsin Hsin Ming by Seng-T'san here by Eric Putkonen) The...
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Finding balance in this crazy world: Changing your world by the way you look at it.
I’m sure we all have moments when life feels “crazy out of whack”. There are times when we feel out of balance, surrounded by conflict...
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Not always so - what to do when things don't go our way.
(this article is about 3 or 4 mins read) Sometimes it’s a chance remark that provides me with a theme for meditation or yoga. Last week...
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Happiness is a habit - or are we hard-wired for happiness?
Sometimes it’s difficult to pin-point exactly what meditation does for us. We know it’s good for us. We might read all about the...
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Meditation should be easy - Tilopa's 6 Nails.
I read something earlier this week about Meditation. It said something along the lines of: Meditation isn't about being intense. ...
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There is and there is not - it's all the same.
(Based on a haiku (the full poem is here) and including a paraphrasing of Suzuki-Roshi’s talk dated August 15th, 1971 at the Zen Mountain...
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Haiku
The raindrops patter on the bamboo leaf, but these are not tears of grief; This is only the anguish of him who is listening to them. The...
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Mundane Mindfulness
Of course we know, and it will come as no surprise, to hear that our meditation sitting is not supposed to be rooted in expectation. If...
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Meditating across Time and Space - Mantra and "The Cloud of Unknowing"
I bought something on the internet a little while ago. Because I had to pay postage to get it here, to make the postage fee worthwhile,...
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