Medicine and Spirituality

How Spirituality and Health are Linked by Pamir Kiciman / @gassho There are four important areas to discuss in understanding the link between spirituality and better health or wellness: Medicine’s interest in spirituality What is spirituality and spiritual health Spiritual dimension of health Health benefits of spirituality Medicine’s interest in spirituality If ‘health’ is understood […]

Cultivating a Relationship with Yourself

The Path to Self Empowerment It takes courage to leave behind the projections, prognoses and prophecies of other people and blaze your own trail! Cultivating an authentic relationship with yourself requires mindfulness and compassion. Be kind to yourself and your body — releasing negative behavior and thoughts is the healthy first step. Start now by […]

Perceptions and Responses

Becoming The Observer of Life Experiences Everything that has ever occurred since the beginning of time is NOW a recorded memory. If I have amnesia and no language to express my life experiences, relationships and memories only then am I the pure OBSERVER of REALITY with no self identity and no idea or expression of […]

An Integral Approach to Healing: Part 2

Working With The Mind by Robert Augustus Masters / @RobertMasters How many of our thoughts do we actually think? Does not most of our mental activity arise unbidden, seemingly independent of a thought-generating thinker? And, even when we are clearly behind our thoughts — as when we’re deliberately passing judgment on another — are we […]

Health and Wellness Partners

We Are ALL Alchemists! I am not a big fan of the word ‘healer’. If you cut yourself, no one can heal except you! When someone looks outside themselves for healing they give up autonomy, empowerment and responsibility. The relationship between ‘healer’ and ‘healee’ is a no-win situation. The ‘healer’ has the untenable position of […]

Inspiring Thoughts: An Essay of Quotes

I am a synthesizer. Whether it’s putting together a yoga series taught over many months into a single kriya; or developing whole body or focused treatment protocols; to creating a compendium of some of my favorite quotes and quips from an inspiring collection of interesting people whose influential thoughts I’ve woven into the following essay: […]

An Integral Approach to Healing: Part 1

Working With The Body by Robert Augustus Masters An integral approach to healing means (1) that the psychological, the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual are permitted to work in fruitful tandem; and (2) that whatever constitutes one — at whatever level or dimension — is worked with in the context of one’s innate wholeness […]

Emotional Anatomy

Storage of Psychological, Emotional and Physical Traumas My truth/perception/bias is based on my life experiences; so, let me start by stating, at this moment in my life, what I believe to be true… I believe that the Bio-Computer we call our body stores dysfunctional information as psychological, emotional and physical trauma within connective tissue. Inside […]