An Excerpt from Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom by Acharya Shunya The science of Ayurveda recommends waking up while it is still dark outside....

I have been a student of Acharya Shunya for the last ten years. As a new student, fresh to Vedic rituals and customs (also known as...

In Acharya Shunya’s Vedic Spiritual Studies Program, we learned about how our subjective experiences of the material world (Jagat) is...

A gold miner sits on the edge of a stream, dipping his pan into the sand and silt and letting the water run across it. He clears the...

It seems that our lives are so full of messes. Physical messes. I can’t go a few days without having to clean my three cats’ litter...

As a Bay Area native, I have always enjoyed the fog. Whether it is during a “June Gloom” in San Francisco, listening to the foghorns from...

True seekers of knowledge are as important as true teachers. I have been feeling very strongly about this for a long time but wasn't...

One evening last year, I experienced an intense realization that seemed like a voice, which said, “You are not selfish; your baseline is...

My brother and I sold my childhood home this past Friday. The couple of weeks beforehand had me preparing, packing and thinking of next...

What is the hot, fast moving, relentless onslaught that is tearing through the fabric of our community? From where did it arise? And how...

An Excerpt from Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom In Ayurveda, certain disciplines are recommended to ultimately bring us greater health of body,...

The phrase, “Come on, it won’t kill you!” is used so commonly for everything from pressuring a friend to try tasting fried crickets sold...

This Summer I was fortunate to take a trip to Lake Tahoe. One morning while I was drinking some tea, I was looking out into the lake,...

This morning as I woke up with the dawn, birds chirping, random thoughts came, mostly about work, then I looked at my thoughts and...

In preparation for the 2013 Vedika Global graduation ceremony, my teacher Acharya Shunya assigned me the task of creating a large mandala...

Being good at multi-tasking is something that many people pride themselves on, especially parents and working parents. We live in a...

Many things seemed predictable when I was a child growing up, because they happened every day, and I naturally assumed things would...

atmaiva hy atmano bandhur atmaiva ripur atmanah The mind is the friend of the person, and his enemy as well. Bhagwad Gita, Chapter 6,...

The first thing I do every day, after my commute home from work, is wash my hands. Now, I promise this isn’t some strange ritual or even...

What are the benefits of participating in the Awakening Community Circles? Past participants have reported a deeper sense of...