“In every older woman lives a young girl that says: ‘What the hell has happened?’” (quote by Cora Harvey Armstrong) I was recently interviewed for some yoga journal. The subject of the interview was ‘yoga and aging’, and I was asked what I thought about that, having recently crossed the 70 Landline. In my usual
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RAMBLINGS OF AN OLD YOGHINI This is going to be a series of articles that deal with the current world situation. My belief is that we are witnessing a ‘split’, and that each one of us has to make his or her decision which side of the split to be in. As the subject is
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OPEN BIRTHDAY LETTER 2021 BASE OPEN BIRTHDAY LETTER 2021 Dear Friends Many of you have written to me for my 79th birthday. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. It is nice to know that I have left a small trail on this earth before leaving for the spiritual Himalayas. We are living
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CHANCE OR CHOICE CHANCE OR CHOICE?Or the Law of Karma A couple of years ago I was driving home from shopping through a small village not far from my village. I was at a cross road of three roads. To the right a road went to the house of a friend of mine, whom I
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Colours COLOUR GREEN Green is not a property of grass, it is not stored in the grass. What is really there are photons bouncing off surfaces. It is your brain that turns those waves into colour. A dog would see that same field in yellow and grey; a bee might see ultraviolet streaks you will
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Cat.dog part one Berkeley California 2002 : The cat and the dog, or the wild and the tamed The problem with our modern way of teaching yoga is that it has become very verbal. In the old days the teaching was done by touch and by example. The teacher showed the movements in her own
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Berkeley 2002 Seven Vital Principles THE EIGHT VITAL PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE Udated 21/11/2020 The Dona Holleman Method of yoga consists of the Eight Vital Principles: The Eight Vital Principles are like the map of the earth, the round ball of the earth, without beginning and without end, but if you want to see them more
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A Comparative Study This short article is a short comparative study of quantum physics, Vedanta and the teaching of Don Juan as written by his student Carlos Castaneda. I just highlight a couple of things which later on I will elaborate. Whatever is written here is purely my own interpretation and responsibility. There is an
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The cat and the dog part two The girl who was cleaning my house had a four year old child. I have six cats that do their business in the litter box (not always I am sorry to say). At one point I asked her to clean the litter box but, holding her nose, she
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TO BE WILD Far back, far back in our dark soul, the horse prances..(D.H.Lawrence) Introduction In each one of us lives, side by side with the surface part, the so-called civilised part of us, the ‘wild’ part, that part that never got tamed, that never submitted itself to language, but is still an integral part
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