For our community: inspiring places, words, teachers & reading….
QUOTES & TEACHINGS
Jean Klein · ‘‘The silence you are seeking does not reside anywhere out there, but in your presence to what arises’’
Éric Baret · ‘‘When you listen to something without expectation, without demand, you find peace. When you don’t demand anything, everything is there. In the non-demand, everything is received. We can’t demand a gift, demand grace or joy. We can only receive when we open.’’
’’ Life can only find the space to reveal its beauty in complete surrender, in total inability to be anything.’’
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche · ‘‘Once we recognise that space is our own essence, then we are free, and have no need to make the clouds go away.’’
’’The more rigid our sense of self, the more surface we provide for the arrows to hit.’’
Ram Dass: ‘‘Until you can find the place within yourself where you are at peace without having what you want, then you are in the optimum position to get what you want.’’
Yuval Noah Harari: 'If you don't feel at home in your body, you will never feel at home in the world.'
Francis Lucille · "You know the beauty about love is that love is always giving, but we fail to see in most cases because we are blinded by a given direction from which we want to receive it, or an object, or the form it has to take."
Recommended reading
T.K.V. Desikachar, The Heart of Yoga
Georg Feuerstein, The Deeper Dimension of Yoga
Sally Kempton, Meditation for the Love of It
Ram Das, Be Here Now
Christopher Hareesh Wallis, Tantra Illuminated, The Recognition Sutras
B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life
Osho, Tantra, the Supreme Understanding
Bhante Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English
Anodea Judith, Eastern Body, Western Mind (chakras)
William Dalrymple, Nine Lives
David Burns, Feeling Good (CBT)
Eckart Tolle, The Power of Now
(Talks with) Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I am That
Daniel Odier, Tantric Quest
Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras (poetry inspired by the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra)
Anthony de Mello, Awareness
www.theluminescent.org ‘‘Yogic wisdom with academic rigour’’
Recommended Teachers
Yoga History, Philosophy, Bhakti & Meditation
Emil Wendel - a knowledgable & experienced teacher specialising in philosophy & pranayama. I’m grateful for all the wisdom & insights he’s given me in many trainings over the years.
Neema Majmudar & Surya Tahora: Vedānta teachers who I have studied with extensively in India & Europe. This video series ‘‘Introduction to Vedanta’’ is especially accessible for beginners
Christopher Hareesh Wallis - excellent books, courses & talks
Mark Singleton, Yoga Body (critical analysis of the development of modern postural yoga)
Zen Master Bon Soeng (one of my favourite teachings here)
Swami Sarvapriyananda - an engaging, erudite teacher. I could listen to him all day.
Prof. Edwin Bryant - incl. this lecture on the Yoga Sutras
James Mallinson & team, scholar & teacher at SOAS London who researches extensively into the roots of Hatha Yoga
Krishna Das - mantra singer & teacher, has a great series of Satsangs (music & community Q&A) on Youtube
Amanda Morelli - Specialist in pranāyāma (breath practice)
Tara Brach (guided meditation & talks)
Sally Kempton - wonderful books, meditation guidance & teachings (also on audible)
GUIDED MEDITATIONS
Here’s where you can access some of my guided meditations for free:
https://insighttimer.com/anyakinneavy
and there’s a much wider selection available in my video library
May they bring peace
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*For more depth, my 6-part online course ‘Meditation Essentials’ is available any time