For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish

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The Purpose of Spiritual Practice Dec 13, 2020

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Now that we've discussed the methods to practice spirituality and the various pitfalls along the path, we turn our attention to a much deeper question: why practice at all?

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Pitfalls on the Path Dec 09, 2020

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The Way of Spirit can be steep and winding at times, and broad and obvious at other times. During the journey, you will encounter true and sincere teachers of Spirit but you will also encounter just as many charlatans who peddle peace and take all your money! In the beginning, old patterns that you seek to break through spiritual practice will find their way into your spiritual practice; you become susceptible to spiritual materialism and the fortification of the ego through creating a "spiritual" instagram identity (haha); other times, you will feel confused and disheartened when the spiritual highs of yesterday do not come today. Many are the troubles and challenges of a life lived in Spirit! Fortunately, you are not alone. These problems have been experienced by others who have gone before you and are being experienced by those who share the road with you now! In this episode, we come together to discuss the 6 (or 7) common Pitfalls along the Path. With humour and compassion, see if any of these apply to you and let us all be vigilant!

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How To Practice Spirituality (Part 2) Nov 30, 2020

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In Part 2, we explore the vast array of spiritual practices with the hope that one of them resonates with you, We also delve deeper into the subtle aspects of asana and pranayama practice and then we explore the Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga paths for cultivating svadhyaya (study) and isvara pranidhana (devotion) which are integral practices to develop spirituality.

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How To Practice Spirituality (Part 1) Nov 29, 2020

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Spiritual practice: you've been reading about it, hearing about it and listening to your friends rave about it. Now you've decided to take it up yourself! But where to start? The world of spirituality is wide and varied with many roads to salvation and equally many pitfalls and dead ends. This is a journey peppered with unassuming enlightened masters and grandiose charlatans who would peddle "peace" and take all your money. It is a journey that must be navigated skillfully.
In part 1, we explore the various component parts of a holistic spiritual practice honoring the fact that you are a multi-dimensional being and as such, require many different practices to cultivate different aspects of yourself, namely, your emotional self, your mental self, your physical self, your energetic self and many more. Come and explore to various facets in the diamond of Spiritual Practice in this episode of For The Love of Yoga.

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Reincarnation (Part 2) Nov 27, 2020

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Today, we talk about past-life memories, exploring Om Sety (Dorothy Eady) and other stories of people who have vivid recollection of past lives. We explain why it is that you might not remember your past lives. Is there technique enabling you to do so? Your past lives are much closer and much more available to you than you might expect!
We also discuss the First Incarnation, or the Purpose of Creation: The First Cause is Pure Awareness' desire to experience itself as Oneness in Many. And so the Universe comes into Being leading up to the Final Effect: the total waking up of all beings to their fundamental nature as Pure Awareness, thereby consummating the original desire of Awareness to explore itself in an act of free self-love. Between that first cause and final effect are innumerable other causes and effects. You yourself are such a Being, both a cause and an effect at once. Knowing yourself to be a cause, how will you act in the here and now? What effects do you desire to produce?

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Reincarnation (Part 1) Nov 22, 2020

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Reincarnation is a fundamental feature in many Eastern schools of thought and is significant in Christian mysticism as well as in many cultures around the world. Each of us asks the question, "what carries forward after this body dies?" In Part 1, we discuss what makes a scientific theory good in order to present Reincarnation as a rational theory. Since every theory is just a metaphor for Reality (the map is never the territory), we explore what Reincarnation can do for us with regards to understanding the forces at work in our Being. What is it exactly that reincarnates? How can this theory help us in our spiritual practice? This and more in today's episode of For The Love of Yoga!

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Dharma: Finding Your Purpose Nov 17, 2020

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In this episode, we talk about Mick Jagger, Wall Street brokers and the Bhagavad Gita to explain both cosmic and personal Dharma. What is the purpose of Creation? What is your role in all of that? What is your purpose? We discuss how our spiritual practice can cultivate the insight to know what your purpose is as well as the courage to pursue it. Finally, we talk about how living your purpose can help your spiritual practice. Join me in this special Navaratri episode devoted to the goddess Saraswati!

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Romantic Relationships as Spiritual Practice Nov 13, 2020

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What is Love? What is Romantic Love? And what role do these intimate relationships have to play in our spiritual lives? Today we discuss how our culture primes us to "fall" in love without ever teaching us how to BE in Love. We explore the common failings and disappointments in this domain of life and cap it off with a discussion of Bhakti Yoga and how to spiritualize our intimate relationships.

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