The core of the 'new American invention' somatic yoga lies in interoception, the lived experience of the body from within. Something essential of all yoga, but redefined again due to so much confusion in the field of yoga. Yoga practice is grounded in first-person sensation rather than external form, visual imitation, or predefined outcomes. Movements … Continue reading The Essence of Somatic Yoga
Structural Yoga and Somatic Yoga
Two Epistemologies of the Body 1. Yoga as a Way of Knowing Yoga has never been merely a system of exercises. At its core, it is a discipline of perception. Every genuine yoga tradition implies a particular answer to a fundamental question: how do we know the body? Is the body something that must be … Continue reading Structural Yoga and Somatic Yoga
Surat Shabd Yoga and hearing of tinnitus, how does these relate? And how can we awaken spiritual seekers for understanding what is Nonsense and what is Truth?
In the world there is so much misunderstanding of spiritual phenomena. For instance the above question already contains a misunderstanding. Here is a dissection of the problem. Surat Shabd Yoga (also known as the Yoga of the Inner Light and Sound) places great emphasis on attuning to the Anahad Shabd or Audible Life Stream—a divine … Continue reading Surat Shabd Yoga and hearing of tinnitus, how does these relate? And how can we awaken spiritual seekers for understanding what is Nonsense and what is Truth?
Kabir’s instructions for finding and consolidate the Inner Light
Kabir and the Yoga of the Inner Light A Reading of the Chauntīsī part of Kabir's Bijak What Chauntīsī means? The word comes from Hindi: chauntīs = thirty-four. Chauntīsī = a composition consisting of thirty-four verses In Kabir’s corpus, texts are often grouped by metrical or numerical form, not by doctrinal topic. Examples include: Sakhi … Continue reading Kabir’s instructions for finding and consolidate the Inner Light
Surat Shabd Yoga: A Historical Overview and Meditation Practice
Surat Shabd Yoga, often translated as the "Yoga of the Inner Light and Sound" or the "Union of the Soul with the Divine Sound Current," is a contemplative meditation tradition emphasizing direct inner experience of divine light and sound as the path to spiritual liberation. Historical Origins and Development The roots of Surat Shabd Yoga … Continue reading Surat Shabd Yoga: A Historical Overview and Meditation Practice
Our work on the Yoga of the Inner Light
Who is behind the Youtube channel VedicVibes, this website and the series of papers on the Yoga of the Inner LIght. Just to give some context. Prof. Dr. Jan M. Keppel Hesselink is a Dutch physician, biologist, and professor of molecular pharmacology (associated with the University of Witten/Herdecke). He bridges conventional medicine (especially neuropathic pain … Continue reading Our work on the Yoga of the Inner Light
When the Gurdjieff Enneagram Refuses to Stay Flat: Tradition, Vision, and a Living Symbol
For most of us, the Enneagram appears as it does on countless book covers and workshop flyers: a circle, nine points, intersecting lines. It is usually framed as a psychological map, a way to classify personality, motivations, and defensive styles. Useful perhaps. Marketable certainly. But also strangely diminished. Recently, I read a scholarly paper that … Continue reading When the Gurdjieff Enneagram Refuses to Stay Flat: Tradition, Vision, and a Living Symbol
The Enneagram as Dynamic Vortex: revelatons after a Sufi Shake
The "Work" of Gurdjieff often operates on a long time-horizon; I danced the "Movements" of Gurdjieff long ago and perhaps this has planted a rhythmic seed in my motor memory. Some days a good friend of mine let me know that only if you understand the enneagram completely, a higher being can be born. Apparently … Continue reading The Enneagram as Dynamic Vortex: revelatons after a Sufi Shake
Beyond the “Trip”: Mapping the Universal Architecture of the Sacred
For decades, the "psychedelic experience" has been treated by mainstream science as a form of beautiful, chaotic intoxication: a chemical "hallucination" that, while fascinating, lacked a predictable map. However, as our recent research suggests, what we often call a "trip" is actually a highly structured, lawful progression of consciousness. It is, in effect, a naturalistic … Continue reading Beyond the “Trip”: Mapping the Universal Architecture of the Sacred
DMT, Vision, and the Grammar of Inner Light
There is a story told by a man named Justin about his DMT experience. What struck me was not the exotic imagery or the psychedelic symbolism. What struck me was how closely his account follows the same inner structure we keep seeing in contemplative practice. Not identical. Not equal. But recognizably patterned. And this invites … Continue reading DMT, Vision, and the Grammar of Inner Light
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