In Indian traditions, the spirit of sevā (Sanskrit, “selfless service”) often centers around bhakti-yogis for whom this practice is the sole aim of life.
My formulation of spiritual citizenship grew out of what I learned over two decades in Trinidad working with dynamic religious communities informed by ancestral and contemporary West African faith practices….
The critical thing to remember is that acceptance embraces the moment, the body, the mind, and the experience for what it is. It doesn’t try to change it at that moment. This acceptance creates an emotional platform in which changes can be internalized for the better.
Often aligned with evil, death appears as the grim reaper, the nefarious gambler, in scary movies, and in ghost stories,…
Queer thinking, practice, art, and devotion has always been a part of the dharmic paths, even while queer individuals have often been marginalized. Today, queer spiritual …
What is spiritual citizenship? In the recent conference “Spiritual Citizenship,” hosted by Embodied Philosophy in the Summer of 2021, one…
Embodied attunement is the ability to experience in our bodies emotions in the bodies of others. The article explores how…
Work with the body during an emotional experience has to able to undo the body’s defenses against emotions and make them easier to access for processing. It also has to be able to manage the extreme stress and dysregulation in the body so that the emotional experience is more bearable. At the same time, it has to ensure that the body is not excessively regulated so that the very emotional experience one is working with is not destroyed.