Spirituality

Presence...
Presence

One of the things that is missing the most in the world today is “presence”.  We’ve become a society where everyone watches TV, communicates electron

Medicine Is A Spiritual Practice...
Medicine Is A Spiritual Practice

When I went to medical school, nobody ever taught me that medicine was a spiritual practice – but it is. Or at least, in Pink Medicine, it will be. Yo

Inner Peace Based on Warm Heartedness...
Inner Peace Based on Warm Heartedness

His holiness the Dalai Lama talks about his commitment to promote inner peace based on warm heartedness in this clip from the interfaith dialogue “Buil

Robert Thurman On Peace and Nirvana...
Robert Thurman On Peace and Nirvana

I recently did a workshop with one of my favorite peeps, Bob Thurman, at the beautiful Menla Mountain Retreat Center…..so I thought I would share some of h

Mis-takes, Bagels, Perfection & Flying...
Mis-takes, Bagels, Perfection & Flying

Michael Beckwith tells us that even enlightened beings burn their bagels on occaision.  Rumi tells us that there is no worse pretense than the pretense of p

Song of Freedom...
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What does existing freely mean? What makes it so difficult to live unencumbered, without restriction and utterly at ease? Freedom is our right. Living, in i

Book Review of
“Spirit Junkie” by Gabrielle Bernstein
Book Review of <br/>“Spirit Junkie” by Gabrielle Bernstein

A few months ago I had a chance to hear Gabrielle Bernstein and Kris Carr give a lecture on “Crazy Sexy Miracles” and I was completely blown away by bot

Is Energy Medicine a Part of Your Health Care?...
Is Energy Medicine a Part of Your Health Care?

Energy Medicine refers to a broad range of therapies that all have one thing in common.  They all consider that the human being consists of a physical body

Disease Transformation...
Disease Transformation

Over three decades ago, amidst a sea of healthy, young gay men whose consciousness and life-styles could be described as expansive, I celebrated a hard-earn

Meditation: The Art of Attention...
Meditation: The Art of Attention

It took me 13 years of teaching asana, and over 17 years of practicing it, to finally take a seat for meditation. Until recently, if I managed to sit down t