by Berdhanya | Dec 1, 2018 | Ayurveda
When winter is at your window, it is time to remember a few ayurvedic tips that will allow your energy to enjoy a balanced and energetic few months. Winter is a Vatta season, meaning your air element will increase causing dryness, cold and ungrounding internal...
by Berdhanya | Dec 1, 2018 | Mastery
On this occasion, I would like to point out a very soft spot within you that falsely thinks that you are not loved by God, that you are being abandoned and left alone like a child in the mysteries of the cosmic dangers. That false sense of being lost is truly...
by Berdhanya | Nov 5, 2018 | Ayurveda
When you’re excited to spend a day in an exotic city across the ocean, it’s easy to forget the 6 or 7 hours that you’ll need to spend compressed in an airplane, sharing your breath with 150 other humans and eating microwaved airplane food. At times, we may feel...
by Berdhanya | Nov 5, 2018 | dinamicas de la mente
Satsang from silence retreat Sept. 2018 This comment was given after students broke their silence. Berdhanya: It’s ok to speak. Turn your impulse to speak into an awareness. Who is speaking? Who wants to speak? Why does it need to speak? Some of you have enough...
by Berdhanya | Jul 31, 2018 | Mastery
You can make love to your partner, embrace your children, write poems or give presents to the ones in your circle of love, but the transmission of affection won’t be complete or fully satisfied until you add 3 ingredients: presence, interest and curiosity. Presence:...
by Berdhanya | Jul 30, 2018 | Mastery, sutra
The seeker must be prepared to be content with his own solitude, to make himself his own best friend and to dwell in that space as the only shelter of his creation.
by Berdhanya | Jul 19, 2018 | Mastery
(From Silent Retreat, May 2018) In your process of introspection, it’s natural that you pass through the body of the mind and it’s also natural that you would like to get rid of the mind or to pacify yourself from the pain of thinking. If we approach the mind from the...
by Berdhanya | Jul 18, 2018 | Mastery
Notes from the Intensive, May 2018 in Wakefield What is stamina? Stamina is endurance. While the practice makes you sensible, sensitive and perceptive, the persona will throw stuff at you stuff: doubts, interventions, transformational things, fear, conversations of...
by Berdhanya | Jul 18, 2018 | Mastery
We are on Earth to cultivate humbleness and to reclaim the life force as our master. Our experiences are a doorway to humbleness, as we learn to belong to the moment without judgement, resistance or struggle. When we release and extract the life force from our...
by Berdhanya | Jul 12, 2018 | Ayurveda
According to ayurveda, the qualities of summer are hot, sharp, and penetrating. That’s why our pitta dosha—the subtle energy that controls metabolism and can cause us to overheat—tends to flare up when the temperatures rise. Pitta-related imbalances include sunburn,...
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