Here is how, one day, I came to understand that I should never hunt again… The story takes place around Les 2 Plateaux, district of Cocody in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), sometime around 1976 or 1977. We must have been 12 or 13 years old. During the Christmas or Easter holidays, when we weren’t busy organizing Read More …
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A Crucial Necessity: Trusting Our Inner Sense of Good and Bad
In every human being lives a compass — not perfect, but essential: our inner sense of good and bad. It is the quiet voice that guides us when external authorities become loud, confusing, or corrupt. In today’s world, this inner compass has never been more under attack. When Sovereignty Is Handed Over Modern society conditions Read More …
Yoga, Language, and the Robotization of Consciousness
What is yoga supposed to mean? The word itself comes from the Sanskrit yuj, “to yoke, to unite.” Yoga is not meant to be an aerobics routine with incense, nor a fitness brand stamped on water bottles. At its heart, yoga is an act of union: union of breath and body, body and mind, self Read More …
Yoga Space – Don’t puncture that container
“I’ll Leave at 25 Past” – A Reflection on yoga space etiquette This morning, as I prepared to teach my regular Sunday yoga class—an hour-long session from 11:00 to 12:00—a woman I had never seen before approached me just after I introduced myself. I had shared, as I usually do, a bit about my teaching Read More …
Karma Beyond Trauma
Karma: reclaiming the power to transform Today, the word trauma is everywhere. We talk about intergenerational trauma, attachment trauma, and complex trauma. Trauma has become a sort of identity badge — a way to define oneself as the product of ancestral pain, dysfunctional systems, or emotional neglect – to the point where it has become Read More …
The “Matter-Altering” Power of Sound
The famous demonstration of how sound frequency modulations arrange grains of sand in geometrical patterns shows us that sound carries a force that has the power to rearrange matter. Tales from various ancient traditions seem to provide many indicators that this idea is worth investigating further. Ancient knowledge Wherever we look into ancient history, the possibility Read More …
