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Month: April 2021

April 18, 2021

If you’re joining us today for the 1st Annual Sri Sakthi Amma Music Festival, please click here to download words to the chants.

Daniel and I are live today, Sunday, from 6-7 pm.

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April 18, 2021

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve posted here. And about that long since I stepped back from recording and performing to focus on writing a book.

As the book takes on more  coherent shape,  I’ve been thinking about returning to blogging.

How perfect then that on this day, when I realized this would be the best portal to post words to the chants we’ll be doing this evening, that music brings me back here.

October 8, 2019

Visitors to this blog know that over the last few years, my posts have been far and few between. This has never been about a lack of care. It has only been, and continues to be, about lack of time…

I started writing a book about my work earlier this year. The writing hums along but does require all my extra bandwidth. I’ve thought about pulling the plug on this blog, but it’s such a content-rich portal and has been such a labor of love, I can’t bring myself to take it down. And who knows, down the road, perhaps I’ll find the energy for blogging and compiling this book.

In the meantime, thanks to everyone who visits here. Do keep scrolling down through the archive. There really is a great deal of material here.

With love to you all.

SG

 

November 28, 2015

I started teaching Monday Night Class at the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health in 1997. I’d been a student of Siddha Yoga since the 1977 and had recently moved on from that guru-centric tradition. Although the paradigm of guru yoga no longer worked for me, I still found tremendous beauty, power, and wisdom in the yogic path. So I immersed myself in a process of discernment, separating out what I now saw as dogma and magical thinking from what I perceived as essential truth. Monday Night Class was born from that inquiry.

In Monday Night Class’ early years I clung to traditional texts and teachings. As I grew stronger in my process, I started taking more risks, allowing my inner vision to guide me. Class grew, year after year, developing, deepening, opening into its essential heart.

The Monday Night Blog began in 2010. We were working our way through Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the “Tao Te Ching.” Along with this text, I was bringing in sacred poetry, stories, and wisdom teachings from parallel traditions. It made sense to collect all this material in one place and the Monday Night Blog was born. Along the way, we started recording my dharma talks and class chanting, adding an audio dimension.

The demands of my life have forced me to cut way back on regular blogging. Hope springs eternal however, and I hope to return to more regular posting in the new year.

Thanks for visiting. We look forward to seeing you again and again.

Always,
SuzinG,

Monday Night Class Beloved Books in No Particular Order…

This is not an exhaustive list of all source texts I bring to class. Simply a gathering of ones I come back to again and again...

Robert Bly
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems
of Kabir. The Seventies Press. 1977; Kabir: Ecstatic Poems. Beacon Press. 2004; The Soul is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures. Ecco Press. 1995

Thomas Byrom
The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita. Shambhala Dragon Editions. 1990

Daniel Landinsky
Love Poems from God: Twelve Voices from East and West. Penguin Compass. 2002

Coleman Barks & Michael Green. The Illuminated Rumi. Broadway Books. 1977

Jane Hirshfield
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. Harper Collins. 1994

Mary Oliver
A Thousand Mornings. Penguin Press. 2012;
West Wind. Houghton Mifflin. 1977; Dream Work. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1986; American Primitive. Little Brown. 1978; House of Light. Beacon Press. 1990; Why I Wake Early. Beacon Press. 2004; Blue Iris. Beacon Press. 2004; Swan. Beacon Press. 2010; Thirst. Beacon Press. 2006

Stephen Mitchell
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version. Harper & Row. 1988; Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation. Harmony Books. 2000.

Lex Hixon
Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of Enlightenment. Quest Books. 1994.

Michael Stone
The Inner Tradition of Yoga. Shambhala. 2008

Edwin Bryant
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary, 2009

Chip Hartranft
The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary; Shambhala. 2003

Osho
Tantra: The Supreme Understanding. Rebel Publishing House. 1975

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