Please join Mahasweta Mitra (Shanti, at the AYP Forums) and Doug Sandlin (Kirtanman, at the AYP Forums), co-founders of Living Unbound, and AYP asana instructor Rohini Nellore (Rohini, at the AYP Forums), Sept. 27-29, for a weekend retreat at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the beautiful Berkshires region of western Massachusetts. We...
Tag: meditation
New Study: Meditators Can Be Identified From Brain Images Alone
For anyone who may have been wondering if meditation truly creates lasting changes in the brain, a new peer-reviewed study shows that meditators can be identified from brain images alone — with roughly 95% accuracy.
Want Ongoing Peace? It’s As Easy As AYP! (Interview with Carson Zi)
If you’re interested in ongoing peace, via a simple, daily program, please listen to the following interview (link below) with our friend, fellow AYP contributor, and fellow AYP Retreat teacher, Carson Zi. Listen to Internet Radio with VividLife Radio on Blog Talk Radio In this interview, Carson discusses the ongoing benefits in his daily life,...
Quotes on Living Unbound from Contemplative Christianity, Philosophy & Science
Seeing through exterior things, and seeing God in them Thomas Merton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A blind feeling of one’s own being, stretching unto God The Cloud of Unknowing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The pure, loving gaze that finds God everywhere Brother Lawrence ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The mind’s loving, unmixed, permanent attention to the things of God Francis de Sales ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finding God...
Spirituality REALLY Is For All Of Us: Everyday People, Living Unbound
West Virginia is a beautiful, mountainous state in the Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States. To say that West Virginia is not internationally-known as a hotbed of leading Living Unbound-related wisdom would be a bit of an understatement. This may be changing soon. Living Unbound is ultimately as simple as Awareness Watching Awareness. Living...
The Workings Of Samyama
We introduced the practice of Samyama in Level 1. Samyama is a yogic technique originally introduced in the Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali (the foundational text of yogic practice, originally in Sanskrit, authored by the sage Patanjali in 2nd century India). The Yoga Sutras of Patanjai talks about 8 limbs, or facets, of Yoga (you may have...
Samyama
There is a practice described by Yogani in the AYP lessons called Samyama. It is an advanced technique, but Yogani has a wonderful way of separate the wheat from the chaff and simplifying a practice so it can be practiced by anyone. The only prerequisit for this practice is to have some inner silence when...
Choosing Our Thoughts to Create a Positive Life Experience
The following article is written by Andrew Thompson, the founder of Inspirational Works, an organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, providing “Events that Inspire, Motivate and Transform Lives”. Inspirational Works has hosted Byron Katie, and is thrilled to be hosting Don Miguel Ruiz (author of The Four Agreements and other books), April 9th-11th, 2010. Andrew has been...
Living Unbound Q&A: Meditation and Depression
A Living Unbound Visitor Asks: “Here is a question: It is suggested in many traditions that if one is experiencing true depression (not just a blue mood, but an actual disorder, where one can’t feel any pleasure), since the meditation will amplify the inward ruminations of the depressed person. I have through personal experience verified...
Living Unbound: Spirituality Is For All Of Us
Living Unbound, the Freedom Beyond Imagination of our inherently fulfilled consciousness, aka spirituality, is for all of us, regardless of our religion or spiritual tradition, or our lack of one, or even lack of any previous inclination toward spirituality. Spiritual practices (prayer, meditation, devotional chanting and singing, directed breathing, contemplation, etc.) are universal practices, with...