Drishti Point Yoga And Spirituality

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Kimberly Theresa about Finding your Calling. “When we are aligned with our core values and deepest yearnings, our lives are filled with passion, meaning and authenticity. We can, and must, identify and follow our hearts desire in order to feel complete.” Kimberly explores the nature of callings, and how we identify them, and key strategies for stepping into them.

We unroll a mat and, unexpectedly, we fall in love. We fall in love with the way we feel in these moving, breathing bodies. We fall in love with the sweetness of stillness. [We are] transformed by yoga, [and we] continue to be transformed time and time again. This constant shifting permeates beyond the studio, touching all facets of our lives.- Melissa Carroll, editor of Going OM: Real Life Stories On and Off the Mat Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Melissa Carroll, yoga teacher, writer, and editor of Going OM. Melissa speaks about the inspiration to compile a book of stories about yoga, and what personally inspires her in her practice and teaching.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Co-Directors of the White Lotus Foundation Retreat Center, Ganga White and Tracey Rich who have developed a contemporary and evolutionary approach to yoga. Ganga and Tracey, long time practitioners of yoga, share their views on how to practice yoga safely, developing meditative awareness in all aspects of our lives, and how an evolutionary approach to yoga can bring about deep transformation awakening an intelligence that is capable of meeting the accelerating demands of the twentieth-first century. This is a podcast with Tracy Rich.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Co-Directors of the White Lotus Foundation Retreat Center, Ganga White and Tracey Rich who have developed a contemporary and evolutionary approach to yoga. Ganga and Tracey, long time practitioners of yoga, share their views on how to practice yoga safely, developing meditative awareness in all aspects of our lives, and how an evolutionary approach to yoga can bring about deep transformation awakening an intelligence that is capable of meeting the accelerating demands of the twentieth-first century. This podcast is an interview with Ganga White.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Eliza Mada Dalian, affectionately known as Mada, a self-realized spiritual teacher, mystic, internationally acclaimed master healer, and best-selling award-winning author of In Search of the Miraculous: Healing into Consciousness. Using her extraordinary ability to see the root causes of people’s fear, pain, and ailments and read thought-forms repressed in their body and energy with 100% accuracy, in 1997 Mada devised the evolutionary Dalian Method™ for health and consciousness. The self-healing Dalian Method helps to permanently eradicate pain and suffering, and help people find ultimate health, and live their full potential.

We need to take a quantum leap and make a dramatic advance in our understanding of what is at the root of our suffering- fear and guilt. The key is taking responsibility for everything that we perceive in our world as being an extension of us. [When] we learn to correct our projections and misperceptions, we can begin to reclaim our power, align with our true worth, and discover our purpose in life thereby dissolving the guilt that binds us. Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Devrah Laval, author of Leap to Freedom and the Magical Doorway to the Divine. Devrah speaks about guilt as the root of all human suffering and how to overcome it. Elucidating different types of guilt- metaphysical (unconscious), existential, and psychological, Devrah writes about how all types of guilt separate us from our Divine Source and knowing that we are Love in physical form, and in this interview, she speaks about her own experiences that allowed her to fully release herself from the chains of guilt and fully embrace

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Radio podcast with Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. In this beautiful and inspiring interview, Swami Maheshwarananda speaks about the four classical paths of yoga: Raj Yoga, Bhakti Yoga [the yoga of devotion], Karma Yoga [the yoga of selfless service], and Gyan Yoga [the yoga of wisdom]. Visit SwamijiTV for live webcasts and Satsangs.

Listen to an interview with Doug Duncan Sensei and Catherine Pawasarat, co-teachers of the Awakening in this Lifetime Retreat. Inviting listeners to step out of their comfort-zone and to embrace their shadow, Doug and Catherine highlight the conditioned tribal patterns that limit us and how to break free from them. Using metaphors and easy-to-understand examples, Doug and Catherine encourage us to grow into more than we know ourselves to be, making spiritual teachings on ‘awakening’ accessible and relevant. Doug Duncan Sensei is a Canadian-born Dharma teacher who is known for his energetic, insightful, humorous, and practical approach to teaching paths of awakening. Doug Sensei has been teaching Dharma at centers around the world for more than twenty years. Catherine Pawasarat is a founding member of Dharma Japan and Clear Sky Retreat Centre, near Cranbook, BC.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Tami Simon, founder of Sounds True, a multi-media publisher of spiritual wisdom. Tami is a long-time meditation practitioner, and received intensive training under the guidance of Dr. Reggie Ray, Spiritual Director of Dharma Ocean. Tami speaks about the spiritual path, and her own personal journey.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Steven Sadler, founder of the Self-Awareness Institute and Enlightenment Radio. Steven speaks about Shaktipat, a sanskrit word that refers to the spiritual energy that creates, sustains, and directs all of life. Shaktipat is the spiritual force guiding people towards higher states of consciousness and its expression in human beings brings indescribable bliss (Nivakalpa Samadhi). Shaktipat is typically conveyed by a guru or teacher to a chela or student through various means including thought, sight, word/sound or touch. As a student tunes into the transmission of the teacher, they become accustomed to ever higher states of consciousness.This is an incredible interview about tuning into higher states of consciousness, bliss, and love.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Sarah Powers, co-Founder of the Insight Yoga Institute. In this interview, Sarah speaks about the unique inter-disciplinary approach of Insight Yoga that blends the insights and practices of yoga with Buddhist mindfulness and meditation.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Sally Kempton, author of Awakening Shakti. How do you live a life of spiritual awakening as well as outer abundance, inner freedom as well as deep intimacy? How do you serve the world selfessly, yet passionately and celebrate your life? The sages of Tantra have known for centuries that when you follow the path of Shakti—the sacred feminine principle personified by the goddesses of yoga— these gifts can manifest spontaneously. Awakening Shakti is a practical guide to evoke the energies of the Divine Feminine (Kali, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Radha, Bhuvaneshvari, and Parvati) and integrate them into your life. Vielen, herzlichen Dank to Martina Bell for this insightful interview!

Often, what keeps us from joy is the menacing assumption that life is happening other than where we are. For years, I’ve been trying to explore and understand: How can we remember we are of one human family? How can we stay awake and authentic when our wounds make us numb and hidden? How can we minimize what stands between us and our experience of life? How can we make a practice of wearing down what thickens around our mind and heart? -Mark Nepo Listen to an insightful and delightful yoga podcast with Mark Nepo, spiritual writer, poet, philosopher, healing arts teacher, and cancer survivor. Mark speaks about his newest book of poetry, Reduced to Joy, his journey towards healing from cancer, joy, and the practices that can help keep us authentic, connected, and conscious of the Universal love that binds us all together.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Yoga Therapist Leila Stuart. Leila speaks about her experience as a long-time yoga practitioner and her journey towards healing from an illness.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Kate Potter. Kate Potter is an internationally respected yoga teacher known for her TV and DVD series Namaste. In this interview, Kate speaks about her challenges in living with chronic pain for over 8 years, and her discovery of how to break through patterns of pain by re-programming the brain. She also speaks about creating a new pathway in yoga therapy to help treat people with pain, depression, and addictions.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Judith Hanson Lasater about the practice of Restorative Yoga. Judith recounts her personal story of using restorative yoga poses after a personal tragedy and the importance of rest and relaxation. This is a wonderful interview from a long-time yoga practitioner, devoted teacher, and author of 8 books on yoga.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Radio Podcast with Dorothy Ratusny Cognitive Therapist and author of Live Your Life’s Purpose and the Purpose of Love. ‘Being Love is both a deliberate action and a state of mind – a conscious decision to act and live in ways that model love in the world and in your life.’ Dorothy speaks about how to heal your past through meditation, love, and compassion and the inner peace that comes from unconditional self-love. Dorothy teaches meditation workshops on Being Love to teach people the tools to live with an open heart capable of generating self-love and love for others.

Listen to a special Drishti Point Podcast with Sarangi Master Dhruba Ghosh, one of the living Masters and virtuosos of the ‘instrument of a hundred colors’- the Saranghi. Dhruba speaks about both the Sarangi and the bansari flute to create vibrations that transcend time and space, harmonize our bodies and minds, eliminate all dualities, and connect us to the Divine Source of all creation and all of life. This is a phenomenal interview highlighting Dhruba’s life-long commitment to the Divine art of using the Sarangi as an instrument to connect to Source, and using sound vibration to express universal Cosmic love.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Vancouver Yoga Teacher and Mentor, and mother of two- Christine Price-Clark. In this contemplative interview, Christine reflects on her personal journey in embracing yoga as her dharma and life, and what it means to live your truth in your teaching, in your practice, and in your life.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Radio Podcast with Chetana Panwar, co-founder of Anand Prakash Ashram in Rishikesh, India. Chetana’s experience as a mother, teacher of yoga, meditation, and yoga philosophy allows her to dip into the depths of the ancient Yoga scriptures and bring them to life with everyday examples of how to apply the wisdom to our everyday lives. She offers wisdom and insight for mothers, women, and all who follow a path of mindfulness about how to balance effort and surrender.