Tag: Virgin Islands
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Virgin Islands Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Tired of the daily routine, being stuck in traffic and having to figure out your next meal? Is your 9 to 5 job feeling a little too predictable? Want a break? Would you like to travel, explore, retreat? Do yoga, meditate. Meet spiritually minded people. “Yes, yes and YES!! It’s like y...
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Quote by Goethe (Day 8)
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” – Goethe Photo: A long exposure photo on the island of Jost van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands reveals two night beach walkers leaving a ghostly trail with their flashlights. Sta...
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Beautiful St. John
It’s my third visit to this beautiful island in 14 months and each visit I love the island even more. I thought I’d take this opportunity to share a few images I’ve captured over the last couple of days. These photos were all taken using the built-in camera on the iPhone. Cinnam...
Read MoreTechnology meets Spirituality
I’m not sure how many Hindu priests out there like myself are interested in technology but I certainly love it. A few days before I left for the Virgin Islands last week I asked myself if it would be possible to document the meditation retreat I was conducting using just my iPhone 3GS. Now ...
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Practice, practice, practice!
Our wonderful retreat came to a conclusion today and the concluding thought we left the group with is practice, practice, practice! Find ways to integrate the tools into everyday life. We can only make progress in meditation if we are working at developing the key qualities needed for meditation ...
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What do I meditate on?
Meditation needs to be approached in a positive and systematic way. We should make an outline of our meditation before we even sit down to meditate. If we don’t do this we’ll be running around in mental and subconscious circles. So, what do we actually do when we sit down to meditate?...
Read MoreEncountering the Subconscious
In this evening’s class we covered the first thing that a serious meditator will encounter as he begins his journey within and that is the subconscious mind. To put it very simply. One could look at the mind as layers. You have the conscious mind then above it the subconscious and above tha...
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Learning to Meditate
Our meditation retreat is off to a wonderful start. A brief light shower that came in from the south cooled the island after what had been a pretty hot day. [youtube]3j-DgzBT3QM[/youtube] In our first class today we learned one of the most important concepts in the process of learning how to medi...
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