West Coast OM

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16/05/2025

Shaolin Wisdom
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🌟 Life is not about what the world tells us we should have. It is not about having cars, lots of friends, or meeting standards of success. From the moment w...

15/05/2025

Take a wee pause ☀️

I highly recommend the appricated work of Richard Rudd Gene Keys

' There's such exquisiteness in the tonality of the light as it falls on a branch, or as it falls on someone's face.' - Richard RuddLearn more about contempl...

13/05/2025

A couple of days ago, I completed a powerful and grounding weekend with Judy Hirsh Sampath—founder of Yoga United, and a woman who truly understands therapeutic embodiment.

We explored what it means to meet anxiety, depression, and overwhelm through the body—not as problems to fix, but as states to feel, move with, and witness with compassion.

Judy is offering a similar workshop online in June, for anyone who feels called to go deeper.

Coming soon… I’ll be in conversation with her through West Coast OM, where we’ll explore: rest, resilience, and what it means to recover your nervous system without leaving your soul behind.

Still integrating. Still in awe. Still on the path.

09/05/2025

I love these flowers. I hope they're not AI generated

Zebra Iris

08/05/2025

07/05/2025

I've been reflecting deeply lately on care, on burnout, on what it means to return to yourself after carrying so much for so long.

A few months ago, I came across the work of Judy Hirsh Sampath, yoga therapy trainer and founder of Yoga United. Something stirred in me—an alignment with the path I’ve walked through recovery, restoration, and spiritual embodiment.

Judy is offering a Mental Health & Yoga Therapy Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, May 10–11, in Glasgow, in partnership with Yoga Scotland.

https://yogascotland.org.uk/6662-2/

I’m hoping to be there in person and wanted to gently share this in case it speaks to you too. It feels like a space where breath, care, and quiet remembrance can return.

With love from my shoreline to yours.
West Coast OM. Rest. Rhythm. Realness.







Judy Sampath

01/05/2025

Om Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā

At the threshold of Beltane, we honour the fire of renewal and the swift compassion of Green Tara.
She who liberates. She who loves.
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May this May be a doorway of blossoming, a time to awaken joy, courage, and sacred connection.

19/04/2025

EASTER BLESSINGS

"On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry -- old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling -- and let us have the courage to begin again. Life is very short, and we are no sooner here than it is time to depart again, and we should use to the full the time that we still have.

We don't realize all the good we can do. A kind, encouraging word or helping hand can bring many a person through dark valleys in their lives. We weren't put here to make money or to acquire status or reputation. We were sent here to search for the light of Easter in our hearts, and when we find it we are meant to give it away generously.

May the spirit and light of this Easter morning and the special spirit and light of this abbey at Corcomroe bless us all, watch over us and protect us on our journey, open us from the darkness into the light of peace and hope and transfiguration."

JOHN O'DONOHUE
Dawn Mass Reflections at Corcomroe Abbey

Excerpt from his books: Walking in Wonder (US) / Walking on the Pastures of Wonder (UK)
https://johnodonohue.com/

Dawn at Corcomroe Abbey
County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

12/04/2025

Early spring invites renewal.
Nature softens, roots stir, and so do we.
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Om Namo Narayanaya
ॐ नमो नारायणाय
A mantra for calming the fire within.
A return to peace, balance, and protection.
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Whisper it. Walk with it. Let it work.
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West Coast OM
Elevate Your Being. Elevate Your Life.
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07/04/2025

This is a gem of a reflection 🌊🕉️🔱💚
Thank You Mark

The body is in a unitary movement with the Total Cosmos. That is a fact. That is What is Happening. Life is perfectly expressing itself through you, me and the bees… and the galaxies. It is unfathomable power, pure intelligence, extraordinary energy. The natural realm that includes your body is utter beauty. The body is in an intrinsic Harmony, and dependence upon its Earth realm context in all its glory of tangible and intangible conditions. This is not a spiritual statement, nor is it positive poetry. It is factually the case.

But it’s too simple to grasp, although we must try.
The human brain core and body has become so complex, so “self”involved in the cult of the normal. In the normalized seeking psychologies of the complex world-mind of science and religion the simple fact of What we are, cannot be recognized.

Culture and society’s only framework of thought is the presumption that there is a problem not yet solved. The belief in a future God, or a future enlightenment, or a secular utopia, always in the future has enslaved humanity in the stranglehold of thought and dissociated us from What is actually the case. Man’s heaven has created a hell of this abundant paradise, and God or enlightenment are male fantasies, mechanisms of secular power that only transmit doubt.

Yoga practice designed correctly for individual needs can relax the complex nervous system sufficiently, so that the self evident truth of the radiant Reality cosmos can be recognized. A sufficiently relaxed nervous system, and the recognition of the body’s continuity with its natural realm gives us the ability to be free of the abuse that everyone suffers. “The world” is an insult that inherently denies our natural state. It destroys everyone and everything in its attempt to control everything.

The “world” IS only conflict. To be in conflict with the world is one more conflict of the world. But you are the power of the cosmos, Reality itself. There is no conflict here. Nothing to change. Therefore you are not even in conflict with the world of conflict. You can be in the world exactly as it is. Change will happen… you are the natural agency for change.

06/04/2025

Today Lord Rama is honoured, not only as a divine being, but the inner light of truth, steadiness, and dharma within us all.

MANTRA:
**Atma Rama Ananda Ramana**
The Self rejoices in the bliss of the Self

May your path be steady and your heart be anchored in grace.

Happy Ram Navami from West Coast Om.