“Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred,” says Deva Premal. Password represents a shift in direction for Deva and Miten, with the introduction of Danish producer RajRishi, who brought the cream of Copenhagen’s jazz players into the mix. The result is a substantial, musically refined album with sublime arrangements of ancient mantras, complementing Deva’s soulful vocals.
Jai Uttal re-envisions his groundbreaking Shiva Station. This wholly new album brings us closer to the music itself with unadorned, intimate arrangements that directly illuminate the spiritual heart of each composition.
The first meditators in history were the shamans, whose practices for contemplation and connecting with the divine are echoed in virtually every spiritual tradition today.
In 1968, Paul Horn slipped into the Taj Mahal with a flute and a tape recorder—and created an improvisational masterpiece that would signify the birth of a new genre in music.
As the date 2012 approaches, a growing circle of visionaries believes that transformation in the world is accelerating rapidly. A noted scientist and revolutionary futurist offers guided meditations that he has personally designed to help anyone stay grounded through these turbulent times. 2 CDs.
You can't get away from suffering. That's the good news, teaches Pema ChAdrAn. For at the core of your most painful experiences-perhaps more than anywhere else-you will find the seeds of your ...
Many are familiar with the seven basic energetic centres known as the chakras-now, bestselling author Cyndi Dale teaches listeners how to draw out the hidden spiritual gifts in the body's energy matrix. On her first audio programme, this internationally acclaimed expert brings listeners a "cross-cultural" training course on powerful chakra practices from ancient, shamanic, and modern sources.
This is Jon Kabat-Zinn’s most comprehensive audio program on mindfulness. It combines gentle guidance with conversational narratives weaving together science, poetry, and the art of living—all in the service of deepening your appreciation of the workability of the present moment, no matter how hard or challenging your circumstances.
Kundalini is the power of divine within that compels us to evolve and grow-identified by cultures and traditions all over the world as a key to the most profoundly transformative experiences we can have. With its ability to connect us to the energy of creation and elevate us to a higher state of consciousness, Kundalini awakening is crucial to the deepening of our spiritual evolution.
Regular favorites on the internationally loved Caf? del Mar series (over 9 million CDs sold worldwide), Vargo has appeared on over 50 compilations around the globe, including Germany's Space Night and France's Buddha Bar. Now, with Beauty, these frontrunners in the ambient revolution share a story that ?
Western Buddhists are coming of age, and eager for advanced teachings aimed at serious practitioners. There are few more qualified to offer such training than Joseph Goldstein, one of the West's foremost teachers of insight meditation for over thirty years. Now, this pre-eminent voice presents Abiding in Mindfulness, an in-depth course on the Satipatthana Sutta.
Western Buddhists are coming of age-and eager for advanced teachings aimed at serious practitioners. There are few more qualified to offer such training than Joseph Goldstein, one of the West's foremost teachers of insight meditation for over thirty years.
If we feel overwhelmed by the difficulties of life, is there someplace we can turn for the safety and peace that we need? "In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love," teaches Tara Brach.
For two years, a small man sits quietly on a park bench. People walk by, lost in their thoughts. One day someone asks him a question. In the weeks that follow there are more people and more questions. Word spreads that the man is a "mystic," and has discovered something that brings peace and meaning into our lives.
Have you ever had an itch and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to scratch, great peace and happiness is available. Pema Chödrön here introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher, Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche, and one that has become critical to her practice.
When you seek to live a spiritual life, what matters most is not what you know, but the actions you take. How do you best embody the spiritual principles that uplift you and those whose lives you touch?
When Richard Bartlett first began to explore new ideas in energy healing, he never imagined he was starting on a path that would lead to the creation of Matrix Energetics-a revolutionary technology of consciousness for activating our true human potential. In the past decade, Matrix Energetics has evolved each time Bartlett has taught one of his sold-out seminars.
The deepest meaning of the present moment is inseparable from who you are in your
essence. The beloved verse, Be still and know that I am God, (Psalm 46:10) offers a
perennial gateway to this realization. Know That I Am presents three audio sessions
with Eckhart Tolle, pointing us toward the firsthand discovery of who we are in our
eternal nature.
If you took your hands off the steering wheel of your life and allowed yourself to relax and be the passenger, what would happen? Or as Arjuna Ardagh puts it, what would your life be like if you set aside your need to control reality, and without judgmental beliefs embraced all that arose in any given moment?
Somewhere between the past and the future lies a dimension that is free of problems, free of suffering, free of conflict. This is the essence of all the world's spiritual teachings. And it is available to you now, in the moment you read this.
Can your intention change the world, or is it just wishful thinking? Nobody has made a more thorough, comprehensive investigation of the power of the mind to influence the universe around us than Lynne McTaggart.
The first natural healers were the shamans, and their most powerful medicine was supported by music. From time immemorial, explains musician and expert voice culturist Silvia Nakkach, the shaman has heard the hidden music of the universe and sung it back through what she calls “medicine melodies".