Drishti Point Yoga And Spirituality

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Radio podcast with Regina Sara Ryan, a former Catholic nun and author of Igniting the Inner Life. Regina speaks about meeting her Spiritual Mentor, Western Baul Master- Lee Lozowick, and what it means to follow a life of complete and absolute devotion.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Kirtan Artist Krishna Das. In this interview, Krishna Das speaks about his Guru Neem Karoli Baba, and his life as a devotional singer. This is a beautiful interview about the yogic path of devotion- Bhakti Yoga.

Listen to two Drishti Point Podcasts with Master Teacher Rod Stryker, founder of Para Yoga, and author of The Four Desires. In the first yoga podcast, Rod speaks about dharma (the desire to become who you were meant to be), artha (the means to fulfill your dharma), kama (the desire for pleasure), and moksha (the desire for freedom and a connection to the Eternal). This is a beautiful interview about how to create a life of purpose, prosperity, happiness and freedom. Tantra, Mantra, Gurus, and the Goddess In the second yoga podcast, Rod speaks about the history and origins of Tantra, the practice of tantra and mantra, what it means to have a Guru, the experience of samadhi, and the ultimate aim and purpose of yoga.

Listen to a special Drishti Point Podcast with Marion (Mugs) McConnell. Recently awarded the Queen Jubilee Award for her service to yoga, and one of the founding members of SOYA, Mugs has dedicated her life to training yoga teachers. In this interview, Mugs speaks about how she found yoga, the love of her dear teacher Dr. Hari Dickman, her favorite yoga books, and her advice for young people who are searching for their path and purpose in life.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podast with Cranial Sacral Therapist, doctor of Chiropractic medicine and author of the book The Secret Life of Babies, Dr. Mia Kalef. During this interview Dr. Kalef discusses the fascinating discoveries found through scientific data, case studies and therapeutic practices about the influential period of a person’s development between pre-birth, birth and post-birth. Drawing from her extensive knowledge as an educator and health practitioner Dr. Kalef provides wonderful insight into understanding what babies might be trying to tell us when they are unable to communicate with all the words and provides some innovative insight into how people can heal from the effects of a less than ideal beginning.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Venerable Sumati Marut about the path of Karma Yoga- acting selflessly in the world to create a future of lasting happiness. Lama Marut reviews the laws of Karma, what it means to be detached from the fruits of our actions, and the concept of “I” as the do-er of an action.

Listen to Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Venerable Sumati Marut about Gyana Yoga (the Yoga of Wisdom). This is a beautiful interview about the importance of a Guru in realizing wisdom; and how this relationship has the potential to bring about a complete transformation in such a way that the student realizes the Guru within and lives life in accordance with the highest wisdom that the world is a projection of our mind.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Venerable Sumati Marut about the practice of Bhakti Yoga or Guru Yoga. Lama Marut takes about the nirguna (formless) and saguna aspects of Ultimate Reality [God], what it means to surrender to a Guru, how to practice and take refuge in Guru Yoga, and the difficulties and discipline of yoking yourself to a spiritual being.

Listen to a special Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Heidi Groschler (Hirdaya). Hirdaya has been teaching and practicing the transformative science of meditation and yoga for more than 30 years. She founded the Here and Now Meditation Center in Vancouver, and has completed a specialized Mastership program at the International Meditation Institute in the Himalayas. She currently lives in the Himalayas where she continues to study under the guidance of a Self-Realized Master. This is the last of four interviews in a Series on the Bhagavad Gita with Hirdaya. In this interview, Hirdaya speaks about the laws of karma, what it means to be detached from the fruits of your action and how to surrender or dedicate your actions to the Divine.

Listen to a special Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Heidi Groschler (Hirdaya). Hirdaya has been teaching and practicing the transformative science of meditation and yoga for more than 30 years. She founded the Here and Now Meditation Center in Vancouver, and has completed a specialized Mastership program at the International Meditation Institute in the Himalayas. She currently lives in the Himalayas where she continues to study under the guidance of a Self-Realized Master. This is the second of four interviews in a Series on the Bhagavad Gita with Hirdaya. In this interview, Hirdaya speaks about devotion, the dissolution of duality, the practices of bhakti, and their effect in opening the channels to the heart, and connecting us with the Source of all life.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Padma, one of Canada’s most respected teachers of Meditation and Yoga. In this fourth interview of our Yoga Sutras Series, Padma speaks about Dhyan and Samadhi, the transformation of one’s being that are the result of meditation, and the perfections that arise in clarity, awareness, and atunement to nature and the Universe. This is a most inspiring interview about the potential of realizing Oneness, and the ultimate aim and purpose of yoga.

To be awake, to be enlightened, is to be fully and completely embodied. To be fully at one with who we are, in every respect, including our physical being, our emotions, and the totality of our karmic situation. Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Director of Dharma Ocean, Dr. Reggie Ray. Reggie speaks about the modern alienation of the body, the importance of connecting to the Earth as a way of grounding and finding inner calm, and developing sensitivity to and connection with the Earth as a living being as a part of our spiritual evolution.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Heidi Groschler (Hirdaya). Hirdaya has been teaching and practicing yoga for more than 30 years. This is the first of four interviews in a Series on the Bhagavad Gita with Hirdaya. In this interview, Hirdaya speaks about transcending the duality of the mind, surrendering the ego, and the profound wisdom of the Gita and its relevance to our lives today.

"Our hearts are made for loving.” Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Norman Fisher, author of Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lo-Jong. Fisher is an American Soto Zen Roshi, poet, and Buddhist author, co-Abbot of the San Fransisco Zen Center and founder of Everyday Zen Foundation. In this yoga podcast, Fisher speaks about our deepest human longing for connection and love, our potential for compassion, and the practice of Lo-Jung as a method of training the heart. This is an insightful interview on one of the most Buddhist practices.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. In this interview, Swami Maheshwarananda speaks about the subject of karma: past karma, individual and personal karma, collective karma, and karma yoga. Visit SwamijiTV for live webcasts and Satsangs.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Radio podcast with Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. In this beautiful and inspiring interview, Swami Maheshwarananda speaks about Guru Tattva- the unchangeable, eternal, everlasting principle that leads us from the darkness of ignorance to the truth of the Light through Satsang, through the guidance of one who has reached higher consciousness, and through the practice of yoga. Whatever we are doing, we should be aware that the aim of my life is to realize this Guru Tattva within. Visit SwamijiTV for live webcasts and Satsangs.

Listen to a special Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Vishwaguru Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, founder of Yoga in Daily Life. In this beautiful interview, Swami Maheshwarananda speaks about how to cultivate peace amidst the turbulence of our modern life. Visit SwamijiTV for live webcasts and Satsangs.

The sooner we can awaken from the thrall of the obsolete mythos that we are predatory by nature, the sooner we’ll be able to evolve spiritually and discover and fulfill our purpose on this earth. Listen to a special Drishti Point Podcast in honor of World Peace Day (September 21, 2013). Dr. Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, is a pianist, composer, educator, and recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award. A former Zen monk, his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley focused on educating intuition and altruism. He presents ongoing events promoting peace through compassion for all life.

Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, founder of Yoga in Daily Life. In this beautiful interview, Swami Maheshwarananda speaks about the yogic practices that open the heart: prayer, bhajans, kirtan, and mantra. Visit SwamijiTV for live webcasts and Satsangs.