Devotion: Grounds of a Path with Heart, Part ...

While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting f ...  Show more

This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this ...  Show more

Bismillah. In this opening episode of A Muslimah's Guide to Femininity, we begin with the most crucial aspect of our lives—our relationship with Allah (SWT). Together, we’ll explore how to renew our intentions (niyyah) and purify our hearts (tazkiyah) in light of the Qur’an and S ...  Show more

This week, Jake and Bob begin a two part series on desire and how it relates to sin. They discuss how sin arises from a desire for good and how our woundedness shapes these patterns of sin. Rather than suppressing our desires, Jake and Bob reflect on the goodness of desire and th ...  Show more

Hey there! Welcome back to the second episode of our podcast, where we dive deeper into lessons of love, faith, and self-discovery. Remember, no matter where you are on your journey, you're never truly alone. We explore the powerful idea that we are unconditionally loved and wort ...  Show more

In the closing prayer of the Ashtanga practice, we chant: svasti prajābhyaḥ pari-pālayantāṁ, nyāyena mārgena mahīṁ mahīśāḥ, gobrāhmaṇebhyaḥ śubham astu nityaṁ, lokāḥ samastāḥ sukhino bhavantu. These ancient words are an offering — a prayer for all beings to be protec ...