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Surfing the Cosmic Wave
Finding Grace… Surfing that Cosmic Wave By Peter Ferko Tantra Yoga ascribes the beginning of this iteration of the universe to the same event that physicists now assign it: the Big Bang. I say iteration, because both Yoga and science describe a cycle from beginning to end to beginning again, so this Big Bang will [...]
Wally & Kali
A new novel by Peter Ferko, Wally & Kali, about love, yoga, and life. When Wally looks for the path to love, he finds a naked yogini, a smiling guru, and a ruthless goddess lighting the way. Wally can’t figure out how to transcend his life-long string of not quite right relationships. His latest mismatch [...]
Why meditate no matter who you are
One of the most common comments I hear from people in class is that they cannot meditate. It usually comes as, ‘I can’t sit still,’ ‘my mind is racing,’ ‘it’s amazing how much stuff comes into my head.’ Sometimes people say, ‘I had a great meditation last week — I finally got it, but this [...]
HOW TO… The Miracle of Happiness
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali provide a thorough explanation of meditation — the purpose, means, obstacles. The process and results are summed up in the first few lines: Yoga, the experience of the now, the experience of who we really are, is found when the fluctuations of consciousness — thoughts — are stilled; when they [...]
Graceful Love, Part 2: Openhearted
OPENHEARTED By Peter Ferko In yoga class, I’ve been talking about something that came up at a dinner last week. It was an all-yoga teacher table at Saro, where the chef is the husband of teacher Jackie Dawn Logan-Elhalal, with my wife Wendy Newton, our dear friend Rachel Zinman, and her friend John Weddepohl talking [...]
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Lose the “BUT” By Peter Ferko My teacher Alan Finger at Ishta Yoga says, “everybody has a but” which always gets a lot of laughs. What he is talking about is the way that we rationalize our negative reactions. You know, that moment when you thought you had it all together and were successfully using [...]
Grace
How to be Graceful When a Tsunami Just Hit You By Peter Ferko The natural disaster in Japan raises the question that all disasters and all human atrocities bring out: how can we find happiness in a world where this happens? The answer lies hidden in the mysterious nature of our life on Earth, in [...]
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Be Ruthless in Your Search for Happiness By Peter Ferko Happiness, from a yoga perspective, is called samtosha, or “contentment,” and every moment, we are being tempted to move away from it — often without any awareness that we’re choosing which way to move. So I appreciated Sheila’s tone in Episode 2 when she insisted [...]
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Marlena Applebaum Marlena Applebaum, M.A. in Counseling Psychology, offers astrological counseling for psycho-spiritual exploration, understanding, and transformation. Astrology utilized in this way can be a missing key for deep inner work and can shed light on the path towards greater harmony with the natural rhythms and cycles of ones unique life journey. Marlena’s approach to [...]
Peter Ferko’s Bio
Peter Ferko, (www.peterferko.com), writes about finding “Grace” in everyday life for Happiness Series. He pursues happiness on several fronts. He has been practicing yoga for more than 20 years and is a teacher at ISHTA Yoga in New York where he trains new teachers. He is an artist in several media, including writing, photography, music, and [...]
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How to be Late… Gracefully By Peter Ferko Being fashionably late is one thing, but being late to a job, a meeting, or an appointment is not quite as hip. Instead being late is stressful! I’m often running on several tracks at a time and find myself running late more often than I’d like. I [...]
Grace
Graceful Love, Part 1 By Peter Ferko Imagine a graceful relationship. Fantasy, right? I used to get upset that my romantic partners and I could not maintain the common civility that’s so easy with everyone else I know. But over the years, it became clear that those intimate relationships we create are like laboratories for [...]
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Graceful Self By Peter Ferko People all carry opinions about themselves, and have patterns of response and behavior that are deeply ingrained. Since the moment you were born, you’ve been using whatever tools you have along with your experiences to hone a “self,” or identity. Yogis locate these deeply held beliefs in the energy center [...]
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