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This week in classes we are exploring the concept of Aversion and how it hinders the mind from connecting to the Highest Self. Details...
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Veronica Carpenter
Aug 2, 20211 min read
Aversion
This week in classes I am talking about the 4th Hindrance of the Mind, Dvesa or aversion. This is the part of us that resists or pushes...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 27, 20212 min read
Freedom In Letting Go
When we hold things lightly and live unattached to expectation and judgments we are more in tune with the nature all around us. When on...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 26, 20211 min read
3 Minutes On Attachment
What is Attachment? Why should we live unattached to things? A little 3 minute run down on this Yoga philosophy concept....
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 26, 20212 min read
Attachment
This week in classes I am talking about Raga or Attachment. We are all attached to things. Some things we attach to inspire us- such as a...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 22, 20212 min read
Truth Consciousness and Bliss
You are a beautiful being of pure light and love. Remember your true nature. It lives just below the surface of your humanness- under...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 21, 20212 min read
Ego vs Spirit
Ego says- I need to be more than what I am. Spirit says- I am enough as is. Ego says- Success is measured by notoriety, money, power....
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 20, 20212 min read
We All Have An Ego
Yoga Sutra 2:6 tells us that "Egoism is the identification, as it were, of the powers of the Seer (Spirit) with that of the instrument...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 19, 20212 min read
This Week's Dive
According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali there are 5 Hindrances of the Mind which cloud our understanding of who we really are. This...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 18, 20212 min read
Egoism Explored
This week's philosophy theme will be the 2nd Klesha or "Hindrance of the Mind" written about in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, which is...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 14, 20212 min read
Who Are You?
If I asked you "Who are you?" What would you say? The average human begins to list things such as jobs, relationship status, belief...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 13, 20212 min read
Practice. Practice. Practice.
The quote pictured was written in a letter to Ram Dass by the Tibetin Lama as he was dying. I found this quote in a talk by Ram Dass on...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 12, 20212 min read
Shine Awareness
This week is the beginning of the 5 week dive into the Hindrances of the Mind or the Kleshas. In an ancient text, The Yoga Sutras, the...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 9, 20211 min read
It's All About the Yoga
No one came to class this morning. Instead of crying about it, like I did on Monday evening when no one showed up, I decided to practice...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 7, 20213 min read
Where Did Yoga Come From?
If you want to know the history of Yoga in America read this. And know that yoga is an ancient Vedantic philosophy and it comes from the...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 6, 20211 min read
Chakra Integration
This week in virtual classes I am guiding an integration of the chakras. The chakras are 7 energy centers that live within humans,...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jul 3, 20212 min read
Why Blissful Butterfly?
Pictured here "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass. I listen to him often and in the current lecture I am listening to he speaks this Ram Tirtha...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jun 28, 20211 min read
Crown Chakra Wisdom
This week classes are all themed around the Crown Chakra 👑. I will be reading excerpts from "Eastern Body Western Mind" by Anodea Judith...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jun 27, 20211 min read
7th Chakra Week
This week will be all about the 7th chakra, located at the crown of the head, named Sahasrara or "thousand petal lotus." This energy...
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Veronica Carpenter
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Following Your Intuition
I followed my intuition and it led me here...not one mistep along the way. All the falls, all the breaking, crumbling, burning away of...
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