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What is dis-ease? What is healing?
by Jeff Martens Ghosts in the Attic Boo! Ghosts can seem frightening as a child. Most adults can easily dismiss such fears. But what if that ghost is you? When you are not yourself who are you? The unreal is a fabrication, an illusion or projection. Your ego is a ghostly apparition supported by past suffering that turns into fearful expectations. Your …
False Evidence Appearing Real
By Jeff Martens The Safety of the Familiar Many animals, especially cats it seems, can treat benign objects as if they were dangerous threats. Even an unfamiliar banana can become a ferocious adversary when seen through an animal’s eyes. The animal part of the human brain can also look at the world through this same filter of survival. When left …
The Blob: Who Do I Think I AM?
by Jeff Martens In 1958 the classic camp horror movie The Blob depicted a gelatinous morphing glob shape-shifting space jelly that grew at an alarming rate by absorbing everything in its path. Our ego is a “Phantom Self”. Like the Blob or a phantom limb it is illusory and functions asa container for our (much coveted) misery. When we perceive the world …
The Greatest Gift
by Jeff Martens There is a man, an Israeli named Ronny Edry who along with many others in Israel, was living in fear. Each day is supposed to be the last day to do something about an impending war looming with Iran. Each country supposedly has targeted thousands upon thousands of missiles at the other. It seemed that …
Student Essay: Two Trees
By Nasim Nourian (Nasiim is a long-time regular practitioner of Yoga at IVY and in her daily life -JM) There used to be two big beautiful healthy trees outside my windows. In nice days, I would keep the front door open and bask in the pleasant shade these two trees provided for me. I liked listening to the gentle breeze …
Movie review From a Yoga Perspective
These sometimes rare or hard to find movies are well worth the search. Sit back, butter that popcorn and enjoy multidimensional cinema that will impact your body, mind and spirit. Movie Reviews from a Yoga Perspective by Jeff Martens 21 Grams: A profoundly gritty movie which rubs your nose in the clay of life. Just when you’re about to …
Groupthink: Yoga, Fear and Evolution
by Jeff Martens Have you ever seen a Tiger’s extended claws up close and truly admired the lethal sharpness of them? How about a Wolf’s canines? Not a dog, or a huskie breed but a full-blown wolf’s fangs that have no resemblance whatsoever to a domestic dog’s incisors ground down by regular meals of kibble? Have you ever seen firsthand …