A Therapeutic Union of External Form & Internal Action: Introducing Porta-Potty Pose

Go to Part Two    Go to Part Three    Go to Part Four    Go to Part Five    Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to Basic Energetics   

Go to Muscle States    Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Conscious Evolution and "Coming Home" to Anatomical Alignment   

Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Introduction)    Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog  

The Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment

The Bhagavad Gita's Tricky Triad of Energetic Tendencies

Go to My Tantric Bhagavad Gita (Chapters 13-15)    Go to The Yoga of Circles and Lines    Go to What is Tantra?

Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One Plus One Equals Three    Go to The Myth of Maya and Brahma    Go to Muscle States

Go to My Tantric Pradipika (Chapters 3 & 4)    Go to Mindful Alignment Strategies: Mula Bandha    Go to Basic Energetics 

Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to How to Live Your Yoga (Yoga Sutra II.46)

Go to An Ego Isn't an Error To Be Fixed    Go to Practicing the Buddha's Four Noble Truths    Go to Metaphors of Govinda (Krishna)

Essential Aspects of Human Nature: Pashu and Deva

Go to the Lotus Metaphor    Go to My Translation of the Gayatri Mantra    Go to The Divine Dance    Go to What is Tantra? 

Go to Tending Compassionately to Our Wandering Minds    Go to A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution 

Go to Thematic Storytelling and Thematic Yoga Classes    Go to Conscious Evolution and "Coming Home" to Anatomical Alignment 

Go to The Significance of the Evening Star    Go to How to Live Your Yoga (Yoga Sutra II.46)    Go to Know Your Heart (Yoga Sutra III.35)

Go to Symbols of Kali Ma: A Path to Heightened Awareness    Go to An Ego Isn't an Error to Be Fixed    Go to Practicing Divinity (Intro)

Go to the Monier Williams Online Dictionary
    

Yo-Yos, Yoga and the Dynamics of Healthy Relationship

Go to Twelve Robust Sanskrit Words, One Really Ancient Chant    Go to Gayatri Last Line    Go to Shiva Sutras I.I (Essence of the Universe)

Go to How to Live Your Yoga (Yoga Sutra II.46)    Go to An Ego Isn't an Error to Be Fixed    Go to Challenges of the Yogic Journey

Go to Shaucha: Practices to Support Healthy Personal Boundaries    Go to A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition 

Go to Why One Plus One Equals Three    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    Go to What is Tantra? (Hint: It Has Nothing to Do with Sex)
   

Conscious Evolution and "Coming Home" to Anatomical Alignment

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to Changing Habits

Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog 

Go to Mindful Alignment: Samasthitihi & Mula Bandha    Go to Mindful Alignment: Forward Bends    Go to Inner Actions of Yoga 

Go to Fall Festivals of Light    Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Conscious Evolution & the Significance of the Evening Star    Go to Adhikara: A Process of Becoming Your Deepest Self

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Samasthitihi and Mula Bandha

Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Muscle States 

Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment    Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong..."

Culturally Enforced Emotional Masks Hurt Everyone

Go to The Reunion of the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine    Go to Cultural Maturation and the Hurdle of Stagnant Archetypes

Go to my Translation of the Gayatri Mantra    Go to the Lotus Metaphor    Go to The Buddha's Four Noble Truths

Go to Shiva's Fury    Go to Fear-less and Respect-full in Hollywood    Go to Can Yoga Help Ease Suffering?    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

The Microcosmic Orbit Meditation: Circulating Internal Energy - Part Three of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to My Tantric Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Intro)    Go to The Myth of Multi-Tasking

Go to Metaphors of Govinda (Krishna): Tending Compassionately to Our Wandering Minds    Go to A Taoist Story of Values and Choices

Go to Symbols of Shiva Nataraj: The Divine Dance of Cosmic Consciousness    Go to "The Tao of Natural Breathing" page on Amazon.com 

The Microcosmic Orbit Meditation: Circulating Internal Energy - Part Two of Three

Go to Part Three    Go to Part One    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to A Profoundly Simple Meditation Practice   

Go to Meditation Without Domination    Go to Refining Energetic Awareness    Go to What are the Eight Limbs of Yoga?   

Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed    Go to Cultural Maturation and the Hurdle of Stagnant Archetypes
           

The Microcosmic Orbit Meditation: Circulating Internal Energy - Part One of Three

Go to Part Two    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Refining Energetic Awareness    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)   

Go to A Profoundly Simple Meditation Practice    Go to A True Story of the Power of Meditation    Go to Changing Habits   

Go to Suggested Reading on Mindfulness/Meditation & Anatomy/Physiology    Go to What's So Special About the Sound OM?   

Go to A Story of Final Judgment    

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Shvanasana)

Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Mindful Alignment:  Forward Bends    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Wrist Safety    Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury 

Go to The Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to How to Live Your Yoga (Yoga Sutra II.46)

Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension    Go to Painful Muscle States: One General Feeling, Two Strategies for Relief

Go to Hip-Widening & Psoas Relief    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging for Yoga Class... and Life    Go to More on Sama (Balance)

shrishari Blog Archives: February 8 - July 18, 2013

Go to Blog Archives 9    Go to Shift of Perspective 2    Go to Seated Mountain    Go to Practicing the Buddha's Four Noble Truths

Go to My Three Questions    Go to Perception, Reflection and Personal Agency    Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to Yoga's Inner Actions

Go to Wrist Safety    Go to Spiritual Metamorphosis: Holiday, Myth and Meaning 1    Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Yoga Sutra II.46

Go to Release Valves (Balanced Stretching)    Go to Meditation Without Domination 1    Go to the Goddess Akhilandeshvari 1   

Go to Spiritual Insights from Classic "Star Trek"    Go to Songwriting: "My Heart Goes With You" 1    Go to Sanskrit Primer: Three Symbols

Go to Avoiding Suspended Inversions 1    Go to "Seinfeld Sutra" (Yoga Sutra II.33) 1    Go to My Tantric Torah:  Reclaiming Eden 1

Go to Blog Archives 1    Go to Blog Archives 2    Go to Blog Archives 3    Go to Blog Archives 4    Go to Blog Archives 5   

Go to Blog Archives 6    Go to Blog Archives 7    Go to Blog Archives 8    Go to Blog Archives 11

My Tantric Torah: Reclaiming Eden - Part Four of Four

Go to Part One    Go to Part Three    Go to My Tantric Torah: 10 Commandments? Not Really...    Go to All Fears Are Truly One Fear 

Go to Spiritual Metamorphosis: Holiday, Myth & Meaning    Go to The End of Time: Neither Apocalypse Nor Immortality

Go to Know Your Heart (Yoga Sutra III.35)    Go to Symbols of Kali Ma: A Path to Heightened Awareness    Go to What is Yoga Anyway? 

Go to Symbols of Shiva Nataraj: The Divine Dance of Cosmic Consciousness    Go to Shiva's Fury: The Story of Fierce Warrior Virabhadra

Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?    Go to The Reunion of the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine        

My Tantric Torah: Reclaiming Eden - Part Three of Four

Go to Part One    Go to Part Four    Go to An Ego Isn't an Error to Be Fixed    Go to Lovette George and the Garden of Spiritual Perfection

My Tantric Torah: Reclaiming Eden - Part Two of Four

Go to Part One    Go to Part Three    Go to Thematic Storytelling and Thematic Yoga Classes 

Go to Adhikara: A Process of Becoming Your Deepest Self    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Brokenness and Healing: Deconstructing the Name of the Goddess Akhilandeshvari    

My Tantric Torah: Reclaiming Eden - Part One of Four

Go to Part Two    Go to My Tantric Patanjali (Yoga Sutras)    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging    Go to Ten Commandments? Not Really...

Go to Suggested Reading on Taoism, Buddhism and Judaism    Go to Suggested Reading on Christianity, Islam and Gender/Race Studies

Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    Go to What is Tantra? (Hint: It Has Nothing to Do with Sex)    Go to a Taoist Story about Values & Choices

Go to Practicing the Buddha's Four Noble Truths    Go to Spiritual Metamorphosis: Holiday, Myth and Meaning 

Go to Dr. King and the Temple of the Kingdom of God    Go to Nirvana: A Modern View of an Ancient Mind-State

My Tantric Patanjali: The "Seinfeld Sutra" (Yoga Sutra II.33) - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to My Tantric Bhagavad Gita (Intro)    Go to What is Tantra? (Hint: It Has Nothing to Do with Sex...)

Go to Changing Habits    Go to Do Our Actions Reveal Our Deepest Intentions?    Go to On Twists, Turns and the Sustainability of Culture

Go to On the Behaviors of Healthy Teachers & Students: Shiva Sutra II.6    Go to My Tantric Torah    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

My Tantric Patanjali: The "Seinfeld Sutra" (Yoga Sutra II.33) - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Yoga Sutra I.1    Go to Willingness to Make an Error Can Lead to Growth

Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to My Sanskrit Primer    Go to What Exactly is Karma?

Go to Our Ancient Ancestors Didn't Have Electricity, but They Weren't Primitive    Go to Adhikara: Becoming Your Deepest Self
    

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Avoiding Suspended Inversions - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Wrist Safety

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Avoiding Suspended Inversions - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to The Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to Balanced Stretching of the Limbs

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to What is Yoga Anyway? 

Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension     Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging

My Sanskrit Primer: Three Vital Symbols (Neither Vowel Nor Consonant)

Go to A Brief Introduction to Basic Sanskrit    Go to My Sanskrit Primer: Mid-Word Vowels    Go to My Translation of the Gayatri Mantra

Go to My Sanskrit Primer: An Intentional Language "Fully Made" for the Human Vocal Apparatus    Go to Live Your Yoga: Yoga Sutra II.46

A Yoga of Songwriting: "My Heart Goes With You" - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Read My Interview with WGA.org about "Dragonheart: A New Beginning"

Hear More of Mark McKenzie's Music from "Dragonheart: A New Beginning"    Go to A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition   

Hear Rona Figueroa Singing "My Heart Goes With You"

A Yoga of Songwriting: "My Heart Goes With You" - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to My WGA.org Interview about "Dragonheart: A New Beginning" 

Go to The Fun of Teaching Yoga and Writing from the Heart    Go to Tribute to a Hollywood Legend: Dino DeLaurentiis 

Go to Fear-less & Respect-full in Hollywood    Go to Marv Wolfman Interview    Go to What is Yoga Anyway? 

Go to My Three Questions: Discernment Practices for Clarity and Creativity    Go to My IMDb Resume

Hear some of Mark McKenzie's Score for "Dragonheart: A New Beginning"    Go to "The Book of Mormon" Musical's Main Theme 

Timeless Spiritual Insights from Classic "Star Trek"

Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    Go to Looking Glass Integrity    Go to Why Truths Aren't Always Real    Go to What Exactly is Karma?

Go to Why Are We Still Acting As If We're the Center of the Universe?    Go to Thematic Storytelling and Thematic Yoga Classes 

Go to On Twists, Turns and the Sustainability of Culture    Go to Willpower and Desire    Go to My Tantric Bhagavad Gita
    

Brokenness and Healing: Deconstructing the Name of the Goddess Akhilandeshvari - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to A Brief Introduction to Basic Sanskrit    Go to The Myth of Maya and Brahma    Go to The Gayatri Mantra

Go the Myth Behind the Yoga Pose Hanumanasana    Go to Metaphors of Govinda (Krishna)    Go to What is Tantra? 

Go to A Wonderful Line from the Svacchanda Tantra    Go to Invoking Shiva (Universal Consciousness)   

Go to My Tantric Torah: Third Word   

Brokenness and Healing: Deconstructing the Name of the Goddess Akhilandeshvari - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to The Myth of Maya and Brahma    Go to The Gayatri Mantra    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    

Go to What's So Special About OM?    Go to Ishvara: An Exploration of Ancient Yogic Terms and Medieval English Overtones    

Go to Monier-Williams Online Dictionary    Listen to Shantala's Rendition of Amba Parameshwari    Listen to Tina Malia's Gayatri Mantra

Meditation Without Domination - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to My Tantric Gita (for more on Compulsion, Stagnation & Poise)    Go to My Tantric Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Go to Symbols of Kali Ma: A Path to Heightened Awareness    Go to Symbols of Shiva Nataraj: The Divine Dance of Cosmic Consciousness

Go to Refining Energetic Awareness: Internal Sensitivity & the Double-Good Heart    Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed    

Meditation Without Domination - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to A Profoundly Simple Meditation Practice    Go to A True Story of Meditation Practice    

Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    Go to Suggested Reading on Mindfulness/Meditation    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging

Go to What Are the Eight Limbs of Yoga?    Go to My Tantric Torah: 10 Commandments? Not Really...    

Go to The Myth of Maya and Brahma: A Tantric Creation Story

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Balanced Stretching of the Limbs

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to Basic Energetics

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension

Go to The Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga Aren't Easily Observed    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to Refining Discernment: Mostly Led Yoga Classes and Mostly Taught Ones    Go to Challenges of the Yogic Journey       

My Tantric Patanjali: How to Live Your Yoga - Yoga Sutra II.46

Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Breathing New Life into Old Scriptures - Yoga Sutra I.1    Go to What are the Eight Limbs of Yoga? 

Go to My Tantric Bhagavad Gita (Introduction)    Go to My Tantric Torah: Ten Commandments? Not Really...

Go to My Tantric Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Introduction)    Go to The Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga Aren't Easily Observed

Spiritual Metamorphosis: Holiday, Myth and Meaning - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition

Go to Leveraging the Power of the "Gods" Inside Us For Personal Growth and Communal Harmony

Go to Why Truths Aren't Always Real    Go to An Exploration of Ancient Yogic Terms and Medieval English Overtones

Go to Dr. King and the Temple of the Kingdom of God    Go to the Theme of The Book of Mormon Broadway Musical

Go to My Tantric Torah: 10 Commandments? Not Really...    Go to Willpower & Desire (Iccha & Kama in Sanskrit)

Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging    Go to The Myth of Maya and Brahma: A Tantric Creation Story 

Go to my Selected Reading List on Christianity, Islam & Gender/Race Studies    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Spiritual Metamorphosis: Holiday, Myth and Meaning - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition    Go to Standing in the Threshold   

Go to Fall Festivals of Light    Go to Cultural Maturation and the Hurdle of Stagnant Archetypes

Go to Yoga Can Come from Unexpected Sources    Go to Are You Down with Corpse Pose?    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?   

Go to Adhikara: Becoming Your Deepest Self    Go to Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone?   

Go to Dr. King and the Temple of the Kingdom of God    Go to Changing Habits

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Wrist-Safety

Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Changing Habits

Go to Muscle States    Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury

Go to More Pictures of Shari in Yoga Poses (including Down Dog on Ridge-Tops, and Half-Moon with Fingertips)

The Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga Aren't Easily Observed

Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Yoga Sutra I.2    Go to The Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing

Go to A True Story of the Power of Meditation Practice    Go to Muscles States: Not Just Contraction and Extension

Go to Changing Habits    Go to Refining Energetic Awareness    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    Go to What is Tantra?

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Seated Half Sun Salutes

Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Changing Habits    

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to A Profoundly Simple Meditation Practice

Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed    Go to Are You Down with Corpse Pose (aka Shavasana)?

Go to Refining Energetic Awareness: Internal Sensitivity and the Double-Good Heart    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    

Dispelling the Puppet-Master Myth: Perception, Reflection and Personal Agency

Go to A Rational Look at Magical Thinking    Go to Willpower & Desire    Go to Dangers of Dogmatic Dualism

Go to Do Our Actions Reveal Our Deepest Intentions?    Go to Why Truths Aren't Always Real    Go to Know Your Heart

Go to the Evolutionary Benefits to Saying "Yes" to Negativity    Go to Ten Commandments? Not Really...    Go to Changing Habits

Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to Refraction and Horizons, Perception and Time

Go to Ishvara: An Exploration of Ancient Yogic Terms and Medieval English Overtones    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

My Three Questions: Discernment Practices (Viveka Sadhana in Sanskrit) for Clarity and Creativity

Go to Fear-less and Respect-full in Hollywood    Go to Thematic Storytelling and Thematic Yoga Classes    Go to My IMDb Resume   

Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?    Go to Sweetloopiness and Other Yogic Adventures in Hollywood

Go to Tribute to a Hollywood Legend: Dino DeLaurentiis    Go to Newness vs. Uniqueness: A Lesson from Thirty Years in Hollywood

Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"    Go to My Tantric Torah: Ten Commandments? Not Really...    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging    Go to A Story of Final Judgment    Go to Practicing the Buddha's Four Noble Truths

Practicing the Buddha's Four Noble Truths

Can Yoga Help Ease Suffering? (Yoga Sutra II.16)    Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed

Go to Shiva's Fury: The Story of Fierce Warrior Virabhadra    Go to The Essential Nature of the Universe is Sacchidananda

Go to Why are Lotuses Mentioned So Often in Spiritual Texts?     Go to All Fears are Truly One Fear 

Go to Some Suggested Reading on Taoism, Buddhism, Judaism and The Hebrew Testament    Go to What Exactly is Karma?

Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to Why Truths Aren't Always Real

Go to Tantric Shaucha Practices: Choices that Support Healthy Boundaries    A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition   

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment - Seated Mountain

Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes (with pictures)    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment - Intro    Go to Basic Energetics

Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Hip-Widening (and Psoas Relief)

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging   

Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension    Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Are You Down with Corpse Pose?

Go to What is Yoga Anyway? (with pictures of Ardha Surya Namaskar)    Go to Samskara    Go to Gayatri Mantra