OmpalaceYogaVidya

05/14/2023

Blessed MOTHER's Day! May the Mother Divine extend Her darshan to everyone:

05/12/2023

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Glad You're Here Co.

05/12/2023

Just imagine a mandala or a flower and think about the center of the flower and then all the petals that come out from the center and think of the center of the flower as absolutely still, and think of all of the petals as moving, and energy, and change, but the center is still.

Where is your center?
- Ram Dass

Ram Dass on Finding Your Center
Read more here: https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-finding-your-center/

05/12/2023

"My stopped me and said, 'Baby.' I walked back to her. 'Baby, I've been thinking and now I am sure. You are the greatest I've ever met.'" Excerpt from Mom & Me & Mom
Mom & Me & Mom was the last of seven books in Dr. Angelou's series of autobiographies. It was published shortly before Mother's Day 10 years ago, in 2013. https://loom.ly/riYi8WI Penguin Random House
-The Estate of Dr. Maya Angelou

05/12/2023

I was honored to perform for the youth today on the same stage that Prince had his first performance on! I’m a huge Prince fan so it was a huge honor!

05/12/2023

05/12/2023

Dear Mama Earth
I am tired.
Like your are
Weary to my chalk-earth bones

Mama Earth
I look for you, I have my whole life
Without knowing what for. Why.
Though as a child
I was closer.

I somehow learned to see only
where you were boxed up, categorised
bar-coded, repackaged
sold back to me

To build knots and walls up inside.
To want instead
the things they made
of your rich, nourishing body,
From every living, breathing
experiencing
part of life
Dark cogs churning through you
without end.

They sold back imitations,
to assuage our lengthening grief
Like a child given sugar-water,
who needs milk
A child lost,
looking for her Mother.

Perhaps this is why there is so much blame
on human mothers
For no matter how hard they try
Give, nurture, care, feed, love
they can never be you.
But, how could they?
They hunger for you too

I am sorry.

So many imitations.
For even our false mother, Materialism,
tricks her children with your name
'Mater', the Latin word for 'mother'.

An endless consuming that can't be filled
when our souls starve instead
to connect
to commune.

I am sorry.
I was searching the skies for you
as you nurtured me beneath my feet.
As your abundant, glorious LIFE
swirled its symphony of Love and Beauty
all around me

All along, you were right here,
holding me in your arms
as I grew and learned,
Fell to my knees
and learned to walk again.
Rebirthing me always
from Your womb.

I was never alone.

Thank you.

05/12/2023

This is the 10th year anniversary of this lecture series launched in 2013. This completely revised and updated series, running over the 2023 -2024 calendar years, will introduce the student to the theory and applications of Applied Jungian Psychology.

05/12/2023