Meditation is not about building yourself up or trying to be a certain way. It is not about becoming a peaceful person or a wise person or even an enlightened person. In meditation you simply become aware of what is here. You turn your focus back upon yourself and notice what presents itself. If you [...]
"One who looks outside dreams. One who looks inside awakes." Carl Yung It’s been six months since doing Ayahuasca at Rythmia Costa Rica and my world has been rocked! What brought me originally to Rythmia was to cough-up a big nasty hairball of a dark and painful past. My hopes were that I could clear my [...]
A friend of mine recently asked me about meditation and sports performance. Her boyfriend is a young pro golfer and is trying to mature his game. In other words, he’s trying not to lose focus and fall apart on the course when under pressure. When you are talking about golf, that is by far the [...]
I’ve suffered at times from being an asshole during my life. I can’t say I knowingly have worked very hard at it, but if you had asked my employees, my family and the general people around, at times you would think I went to college and got a degree for it. Like any “a-hole” out [...]
A few words before we go. Click the picture above to watch and listen to our gabbing about what our upcoming Ayahuasca experience may be like at Rythmia. We're not sure. We're kinda freaked out (Kelly, my wife, more so). Luckily for me, I think my brain is on a "time-lapse", so when something [...]
As I pack my favourite pants, a sweet pair of hand-sewn Tibetan yoga pants that I bought in Kathmandu Nepal and put them into my carry-on suitcase, along with some t-shirts, beach shorts, and running shoes, its bitterly cold and snowing outside. In a few days, I'm leaving home for a trip of a lifetime, a [...]
What if you are perfect the way you are? What if you were enough? How would that feel? I’ve been thinking about this for a while. One thing for sure is that you have to do to stop feeling like you are not enough, and don’t need “more” to feel better and be happy is [...]
