Category Archives: awareness

Asperger’s Mom’s Courageous Note

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

Note from Shakta: Those who attend the Yoga for children with ADHD and Autism course write a few paragraphs about how they are using what they learned, how it changed the way they work with children and any internal transformation … Continue reading →

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Our “Contract” with Children

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

(Excerpt from Shakta’s upcoming book about nurturing the spirit of ourselves and our children) Children come into life with pure beingness, purely radiant and present.  They are absorbent minds, so what they pick up from their environment–habits and ways of … Continue reading →

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Yoga to Balance Head and Heart

Posted on March 11, 2012 by

Our heads are logical and want “proof” about everything, which means they cannot understand anything that is outside of the limits of the mind. Our hearts can understand and intuit what the head does not know, yet our emotional heart … Continue reading →

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It All Fits

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Excerpt from my new still-in-the-works book about Radiant Children, Radiant Families Beginning in 2001 and for several years afterward, there were cathartic changes in my life, particularly in my relationship to the spiritual path I had been on for almost … Continue reading →

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Icicles and Gratitude

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Third in the series of How Life Works 101 is this journaling piece I wrote in 2004.  Anyone who has ever used journaling to access their wise authentic Self knows it as a powerful tool. The last day I was … Continue reading →

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Setting your ‘Prayer-Field’

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

This is the second in a series about how our energy (thoughts, feelings, attitudes, beliefs) creates reality.  I am calling it How Life Works 101. It dovetails nicely with the upcoming Happily Ever Now course that I’m offering online on … Continue reading →

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Special Needs or Special Intentions?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Yesterday I was swimming in an indoor pool and struck up a conversation with a father and  his 9 year-old son.  Turned out his son has Autism, and when he was off doing other things in the water, his father, … Continue reading →

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Meditation Gift, Part 4

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Part 4, Excerpt from Meditation:  The First and Last Freedom, by Osho, (read slowly, allow to sink in….) When a thought passes, you watch it; when an interval passes, you watch it.  Clouds are beautiful; sunshine also is beautiful.  Now … Continue reading →

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Meditation Gift, Part 3

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

Part 3, Excerpt from Meditation:  The First and Last Freedom, by Osho.  My favorite thing he says here is Don’t be a fighter, be a lover. Makes sense….A fighter feels the fight. A lover feels the gaps, the silence. So what … Continue reading →

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Meditation Gift, Part 2

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

Part 2, excerpt from Meditation: The First and Last Freedom, by Osho.  ”Growing into Meditation” I am not saying that you should exist without language.  You will have to use it, but the mechanism of verbalization must be a mechanism … Continue reading →

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