We'll soon publish an episode of our podcast "Sacred Space" entirely focused on one of the most relevant contemporary prophets: Nietzsche.
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I increasingly find myself reading and listening to talks that sell meditation as just one of many practices one should adopt to live better.
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In today's so-called new age world, certainly influenced by a small part of Indian philosophy, there is a misunderstanding about the value of 'calm.'
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Traditions, especially those from India that push towards “non-action”—meaning not taking part in this fantastic adventure called life—completely miss the core of the matter.
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Formal meditation (sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, or similar) remains for me a wonderful morning habit, toward which I have developed a pleasant attachment that I don't intend to fight in any way.
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The first warning bell that should ring in a student's mind when realizing they are facing an incompetent impostor of a teacher, has to do with the vocabulary.
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As you well know, I compare a Yoga teacher to a gym teacher, from whom one doesn't expect a particular level of awareness.
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Behind this term lie many different facets. Leaving aside the more popular meanings like 'I meditate on it,' which actually just means 'I think about it carefully,' in the East too there are all kinds of different paths and goals.
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Focusing on yourself has nothing to do with altruism or selfishness. The only true and authentic revolution is an inner one.
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Since I have been indirectly labeled as a supporter of some political camp, I want to clarify a few points. These clarifications are mainly aimed at those approaching Hari-Om for the first time and who know us little.
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Having several years of experience in yoga teacher training, I can testify without a shadow of a doubt to the downward trend regarding the spiritual-psychophysical preparation.
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This morning I was walking through the streets of downtown Alessandria. A boy held the door waiting for a girl to arrive, I saw them go up, and in my mind, images of their life together overlapped. Voices, two friends joking around.
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The word Kalogathia is a philosophical principle from ancient Greece representing harmony and continuity, or perhaps even better, the unity between outer beauty (kalòs) and moral virtue (agathòs).
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The title of this post is the title of one of Hegel's most famous books. An intriguing title for a nearly incomprehensible text.
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My belief which isn’t really my own idea, but rather a foundation of Platonic philosophy, as well as Zen (and even psychosomatics, if you will), is that a person’s aesthetics reveal who they are and what they are about.
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The meaning of existence is a mystery that reveals itself only to those who have the patience, courage, and a respectful sense of the sacred to focus on the next step without expecting to know beforehand where it will lead.
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I want to make it clear that I neither like nor dislike osteopathy. What should really make you shiver is how the watchdogs of the dominant religion, science, lash out against any practice that doesn't conform.
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The Middle Ages were a mystical period, possessing greatness and perfect magnificence, like all times, in their imperfection.
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In the Odyssey, the sorceress Circe warned Ulysses/Odysseus that while crossing a stretch of sea, he would hear the irresistible song of the sirens, but following it would lead him disastrously onto the rocks.
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Between the ages of ten and sixteen, we lived as if in a limbo. To my family, I was costly in economic terms, and not only that, but nothing compared to what a young person of the same age costs today. Ours was a free youth.
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