In our keynote moderated discussion with Cornel West, co-host of the Spiritual Citizenship Conference, Oneika Mays, will explore the relationship between Cornel West's spiritual and religious commitments and his political activism. By highlighting the example of his many decades of work, through this conversation we will arrive at a notion of what it means to be a spiritually-informed citizen. We will explore what, from Dr. West's perspective, are the most important things we can do today to start living our spiritual practices in a politically engaged way.
Explore yoga postures as a basis for mind training, and notice ways in which the neural symmetry of hatha yoga provides a springboard for the non-dual experience known as samadhi. The heightened interoceptive awareness of the postures initiates introversion or “pratyahara,” automatically compell...
A spiritual masterpiece of unparalleled profundity, The Tibetan Book of the Dead is as applicable today as it was a thousand years ago. While it was written as a guidebook for death, it is equally The Tibetan Book of Life. Studying The Book ironically brings you more fully into life, and gives bi...
Perhaps because Western culture is so identified with cognition, it seems surprising to learn that trauma therapy need not be led by the recall of past traumas or the body sensations associated with that recall. The focus on regulation and the “window of tolerance” has begun a different focus — b...
