Traditional Yoga and Meditation Practice in Sydney

11/07/2025

MUSIC PLAYS A H-U-G-E PART IN YOGA > Does anybody out there like music ! Music manifested as an optimal vehicle for truth. In Yoga they call it "DOHA YOGA' or "Music to guide toward enlightenment". The wacky Tibetans adopted the Indian Sanskrit to just "DOHA", which means "Spontaneous Songs of Realization". And in Tibetan they also use the term "VAJRA GHITI" or "indestructible truth in song". There is even a sacred text that talks about a certain stage of enlightenment where "IT IS AS THOUGH ALL THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE UNIVERSE WERE BEING PLAYED SIMULTANEOUSLY". This was actually written by the most realized Buddha of the three times. In India they chant musically. They also do not applaud after sacred music. In my experience that increased the potency of the music that you just heard ten fold. Wisdom is spontaneous. And so is live music. Look at the instrument before it is played. There is nothing. When played there is everything. Then when put down, nothing again. This also guides us towards the minds nature. At its most fundamental level, just humming or listening to music removes energy blockages so we can see things as they actually are. And it is also a lot of fun. It's a shame that Cape Bretoner's are not into music that much .:)

10/06/2025

WHAT IS "TRADITIONAL YOGA" (compared to western fitness yoga) ? . .
So Traditional Yoga started over 10,000 years ago, and without judgement, western fitness yoga borrowed the name. Traditional Yoga has EIGHT LIMBS, each with a primary and secondary meaning. So it is in effect a 16 piece pie. Physical practice is 1/16th of the full view of Traditional Yoga. In Traditional Yoga we use all 16 pieces of the pie, and the physical practice is secondary. . .
THE PHYSICAL PRACTICE and PRANAYAM (breathing techniques), are simply preparatory practices for the main event of MEDITATION. The physical practice is a set series, and while some postures are omitted, the series stays the same. This is how it was practiced in India, so we can see the natures of the posture to the subtlest level. Which in turn will show us our minds nature to the subtlest level. As my Indian Yoga Master collegue Yogiji Yogendra Mishra always spoke . . . "the sequence for humans is PHYSICAL PRACTICE, PRANAYAM, and MEDITATION". . .
Historically and Traditionally, Physical Practice and Meditation were in union. Today here in the west, most people who practice physical yoga do not meditate, and most people who meditate do not practice physical yoga. I aspire to reunite these elements on the path of awakening to its original form. . .
Traditional Yoga is not for everybody. About 20% who seek out Yoga can actually relate to Traditional Yoga. I say this all without judgement of course. When you are ready, the Traditional full view of Yoga will be there, if you want it .:)

09/22/2025

As the air cools down, we get more oxygen in each breath. As we oxygenate more after the hot months, our patience returns, and we come back to our normal selves. . .
One thing to watch out for in the Fall though . . . It is in our genetic make up for us to historically do more work in the fall to survive the winter. Cut wood, harvest, repair shelter etc. In these times though, we simply turn the thermostat up, and keep going to the grocery store. But the energy is still there, and it can get us in trouble doing unnecessary activity to burn that energy. Our mind may fabricate something that has to be done, when nothing has to be done. Meditation will help you see this .🙂 . .
I used to host a Yoga TV show in HRM for 9 years (144 episodes). It was called "the path of yoga". Here is some behind the scenes footage that a guest shot (thanks TJ) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM6qVpB1W8o . .
And some pics of those fun times .:)

07/21/2025

THE YOGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CAPE BRETON
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CAPE BRETON HAS THE MOST SACRED YOGA AND DHARMA SITE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Did you know that there is a place in the Cape Breton Highlands that is the most sacred Yogic and Dharmic site in the western hemisphere ? It is the Ingonish River Valley. It used to be the “Smokey Ridge Campground” up until the late 80’s. In Indo-Tibetan circles it is called the Kalapa Valley, or the capitol of Shambhala. It is like where the Buddha attained enlightenment and the sacred Ganges River combined in how sacred it is. Literally it is the capitol of Shangri-La. A novel in the 1930’s changed the name of Shambhala to Shangri-La. And the Flintstones called it Shangri La De Da (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uik8UB_wpq4) 😊
It is bigger and beyond the current owner (Sakyong Mipham's estate), with his dethronement from the Shambhala Lineage due to his toxic activity. Bigger than that. Beyond that. It is there to help everybody and anybody awaken. I have taken Tibetan Vajryana Masters and Indian Senior Yoga and Meditation Masters to the Ingonish River Valley to guide them, and they all say the same thing. This IS Kalapa! Like even they were skeptical until they experienced it. They all said that “the energy is like the Himalayas” too. (They do not even talk to each other by the way.) And when they crossed the causeway, they were all taken by the exceptionally more potent uplifting energy.
We all know this energy, because this is our home. We grew up here. Some enlightened masters from Tibet have requested that some of their remains be buried in the Ingonish River Valley. The Seventeenth Karmapa now has personal property near Baddeck. In Restricted Tibetan Vajryana conversations and teachings, the Ingonish River Valley and Cape Breton is referred to as a “Pure Land ”. A Pure Land is a physical place, or a place in a non-physical realm, that has extremely high conditions and energy to facilitate enlightenment. A “Central Land ” of Yoga and Dharma is a geographical area that is the home to a lineage in Yoga or Dharma. The traditional Central Lands have been India, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Thailand, and Zen in the rest of Asia. There is one more place in the world, and that is Nova Scotia. Called the “Central Land of Kalapa”, solely because of the existence of the Ingonish River Valley and it’s energy.
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PERSONAL PRACTICE ITEM AND DNA OF THE MOST POWERFUL BUDDHA IS HERE IN NOVA SCOTIA
We have all heard of “The Buddha”. His statue is in most people’s gardens nowadays. He is even an element of interior and exterior design. Each spring there is an entire aisle in Winners at the Mayflower Mall filled with dozens of statues of this very same Buddha. Technically he is just one of many Buddhas, and he is called Shakyumuni or Siddhartha. He lived 2600 years ago. He prophesized that in a thousand years “. . . one would come who is even greater than myself.”. He came in the 8th century, and he walked this earth. He was the most powerful Buddha of the three times. His name is Padmasambhava or Guru Rinpoche. One of his partners was the most powerful female Buddha of the three times, and her name is Yesche Tsogyal. She is called the Supreme Wisdom Dakini. Kind of the ultimate power couple eh ! 😊 And it is partially on parallel with Indian Yoga’s Shiva-Shakti.
You need to be seated for this next part . . . Padmasambhava’s personal practice item, and his DNA (bones or relics) are here in Nova Scotia. In Christian lineages, this is like saying Jesus’ bones and personal item are in a humidity controlled vault in Nova Scotia. Padmasambhava, the most powerful Buddha of the three times, his bones and personal practice item (phurba three-sided knife) are in Nova Scotia because of the energy of the Ingonish River Valley.
Sounds likes bu****it I know. I have seen and felt (not touched) some of these sacred items with my own eyes (and third eye 😊). There are a few other famous Buddha’s items in the same vault. Naropa’s skull bone is here too (of the “Yogas of Naropa”). Here is a link to some pictures of all of these items > https://shambhalatimes.org/.../the-surmang-relics-part.../ If the link does not work, simply search “Surmang Relics”. Shambhala Global does not own these items, they are simply in the care of the Shambhala Archives. Surmang was the Trungpa Kagyu Lineage monastery in Tibet where the artifacts were kept for centuries. Chyogyam Trungpa had them on his person when he fled his soon to be destroyed Surmang Monastary on April 23rd, 1959. And for ten months he and his group mountaineered over the Himalayan passes to the freedom of India.
There is much much more to this history and how it relates to us here, but I will stop there. Most of the few hundred Buddhists that moved here in the 1980’s are aware of all of this. And unfortunately to my experience, they do not really share the information with locals.
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The Indian Yoga Masters have a prophesy. The Tibetan Vajryana Masters have the Gaesar Prophesy. The Mi’kmaq and First Nations people of Canada have a prophesy a well. These prophesies are all hundreds of years old. They overlap with each other perfectly. With different names of course. They all prophesize Nova Scotia as being a sanctuary in a dark age. And they all prophesize a Buddha manifesting here.
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