#ahimsa

[tranquil-vegan]

He sets like the moon and rises like the sun.

[yoogini]

This afternoon, during lunch, I felt like crying when I saw a news report on television, presented as positive, about the drop in meat prices.

I cried when I saw my mother reduced to percentages, subjected to degrading handling, cruelty, and disrespect that made me want to vomit.

I'm still crying, trying to find answers as to when it became so common to celebrate violence, but I failed to notice that it has always been this way.

I see no difference in any animal, how could they? I see the protection of some and the exploitation of others; I see them without the slightest remorse in their eyes when they decree the slaughter of my mother more times than I can count.

We created laws to protect humans to fill every hole that threatened our safety, but how many efforts were made to protect all animals without distinction?

Mom, I'm scared, I'm disgusted!

So many people see misery in effort, transforming lust into necessity and the destruction of nature into convenience.

Once again, I implore you, Varaha, protect Bhumi.

Please Varaha, protect Mom, hey Bholenath, protect the animals.

Please Pashupati please, please Narasimha please, please, please

Don't let my mom suffer, please

[starrmarr]

Some beautiful things I’ve made in the kitchen. All vegan, all me, avec amour!!!

The Source taught me how to eat to live 🌱🕉️

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[santmat]

The Veg Passages Blog: The Early Christianity, the Jesus Movement, John the Baptist Sect (Nasoraeans), Mandaeans and Other Gnostics

My Veg Passages blog is intended to serve as a major resource on the web for many seeking greater access to these rare, difficult-to-find veg and vegan passages from early Christianity and related spiritual movements of antiquity (Essenes, John the Baptist Nasoraeans, Mandaeans, Ebionites, Gospel of the Hebrews, Gnostics, Apocryphal texts, church fathers, etc.., along with references from various scholars exploring the evidence for a vegetarian Jesus at the beginning of Christianity! My veg article was recently updated and greatly expanded. Pack a lunch as you'll be there awhile. Lots of plant-based passages from the early years of the Jesus movement await you! There are also a lot of references to John the Baptist.

To access it, GO TO: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/evidence-that-jesus-and-the-original-aramaic-christians-were-vegetarians-b8784ac42506

or @: https://SantMatRadhasoami.blogspot.com/2019/04/evidence-that-jesus-and-original.html

“All living creatures seek a life of peace, So pass your days on this Earth humanely. Even the heart that beats in an animal’s breast Knows sympathy, brims with love. So look on all living creatures with loving compassion — bring to humanity’s night the light of dawn.” (Sant Darshan Singh poem)

[whatonyogaearth]

Roots Torn, Truth Forgotten Remembering the Soul of Yoga

A meditation on values, roots, and remembering.

Yoga was never meant to be easy. Not a trend. Not a sale. Not a neatly packaged hour squeezed between meetings.

Yoga has always been a path of return - to essence, to Earth, to the quiet flame of inner knowing.

But as the world shifted, so too did the ways we practise and share it. This is a gentle inquiry - not a judgement - into how our modern systems shape our sacred spaces. And how we, as a community, might remember what lies beneath it all.

🧘🏻‍♀️From Practice to Product?

Yoga once unfolded slowly. In quiet halls, with simple mats. We gathered not for the burn, but for the stillness. Not for aesthetic, but for awareness.

Classes moved like seasons - 90 minutes long, with time to arrive, breathe, reflect. Teachings included not just poses, but pranayama, myth, philosophy, mantra, and silence.

Now, yoga comes in countless forms: Rocket, Broga, Acro, Power, Beer. 10-minute hits for the algorithm. Retreats that feel more like resorts.

The pace quickens. The scroll deepens. And something ancient risks being forgotten - not gone, but buried beneath the noise.

🎓Training for Depth or Branding?

There was a time when to teach yoga was a sacred vow. Years of practice, mentorship, and spiritual discipline were the threshold.

Now, fast-track trainings offer certifications in weeks. Logos, hashtags, and packages precede lineage or embodied understanding.

Of course, accessibility matters. And yoga should be for everyone. But when depth is traded for speed, and presence for performance - what is being taught? What, truly, are we passing on?

💸The Marketplace of Mindfulness

We live in a world of sales and scarcity. Yoga is not immune.

Studios and teachers offer referral bonuses, flash sales, unlimited bundles. Prices undercut one another in a silent scramble for survival. Even sacred days are co-opted: Black Friday Yoga. Cyber Monday Memberships.

The problem isn’t generosity - it's the why.

Are we inviting access, or playing into a system that values profit over presence? Have we mistaken popularity for purpose?

And still - students click, book, attend. We all participate in the dance of commodification, even as we long to break free.

🌲Rooting in the Yamas

What if we recalibrated? What if our businesses were shaped not by trends, but by Patanjali’s Yamas - the ethical roots of the yogic path?

Ahimsa - non-harming

Satya - truthfulness

Asteya - non-stealing

Aparigraha - non-hoarding

Could our pricing reflect non-violence - to ourselves, our students, our peers? Could we market with truth, not illusion? Set prices that honour experience, rather than steal value through competition? Release the grip of scarcity, and trust in enoughness?

This is not naïveté - it’s radical. It is yoga.

🍄‍🟫The Mycelium Model

Imagine a yoga economy rooted like a forest.

Each studio a tree. Each teacher a root. Each student a leaf turned toward light. Beneath it all, a mycelial network of shared intention - unseen but essential.

This is not about perfection. It is about practice.

A business rooted in yamas doesn’t reject the world - it nourishes a new one. It swims upstream, slowly, bravely. It becomes a quiet revolution in how we live, share, and sustain.

Tiny shifts. Honest pricing. Mutual care. These small, invisible gestures ripple - butterfly effects in a complex system desperate for meaning.

🔥Reclaiming the Fire

Yoga is not passive. It is not aesthetic. It is practice - fire, courage, commitment, sacrifice.

To walk the yogic path as a teacher, student, or space-holder is to hold a light up against the currents of consumerism.

To choose slowness in a fast world. To remember depth when we are told to perform. To nourish the whole forest, not just our own canopy.

Yoga begins where we live. How we price. How we speak. How we honour each other’s time, labour, lineage.

🕸️Conclusion: Remembering the Invisible

Let our yoga businesses be like woodland roots - interwoven, rich, unseen, alive.

Let us be musk deer - no longer searching for the scent, but remembering it lives within.

Let us walk slowly. Speak honestly. And rebuild this sacred web together - not as brands, but as beings.

✨Let’s Keep the Conversation Going

What does true yoga mean to you in today’s world? How do you balance making a living with practicing and teaching authentically? How do you navigate yoga and capitalism in your practice or business? What does ethical, rooted yoga look like in today’s world?

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[detective-jane-rizzoli]

[practicewithaza]

A White Yogis Responsibility Right Now.

A few weeks ago I was struggling internally with an issue that I was having. I turned to reddit (which i know was the first mistake there) and it made me even more angry.

I asked the yoga subreddit how they are handling current events on their mats and in their teaching... you know gennocide, ICE murdering innocent folks and kidnapping and tearing away families, the united states invading other countries, millions losing health care, racism, zionism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, prisons, forclosures when banks are being bailed out, and the list just keeps going on. All of this is a lot, and I was seeking advice on how we can incorporate and work through and empower students when all this is going on.

The biggest response I got was "nobody comes to yoga class to be preached at."

I'm sorry but the practice of yoga is inheartenly political, and I'm sorry susan but fuck you, you have no idea what you are talking about because white people yoga is an appropriated, stolen, and bastardized version of yoga that white suburban moms like to use as their numbing agent.

As a white yogi (holding that I practice and teach an appropriated and bastardized version of yoga) I say FUCK THAT. I want to tell all my students this week to wake the fuck up.

The very first Yama is Ahimsa, nonviolence. Nonviolence in thought word or deed. I am sorry, but watching families get torn apart and watching people be murdered and DOING NOTHING is not ahimsa. It's not enough to be non violent yourself, you NEED to be anti violence. And I believe there is such a thing as a non violent fist (or bullet for that matter). It is our duty as yogis to stand up and fight for a world where we lessen the drops of violence and harm into the bucket, if that means protesting striking or even fighting back so that your little bit of harm is creating less harm overall.

The second Yama Satva or truthfullness also tells us that it's time to say something. I am sorry but if you as a yoga student cannot hear that people are being murdered, that we are literally evil, and that we are killing the world and ourselves you are not being truthful to yourself.

I have so many more thoughts but I want to hear from you... what do you think?