About: Dr. Katy Poole
Posts by Dr. Katy Poole:
 Invoking the Warrior’s Bow at elephant journal.by Dr. Katy Poole on Jul 28, 2012 “In bowing to each other, we honor the inherent bravery, gentleness and wakeful intelligence that each of us can experience personally.” ~ Naropa University Student Handbook My first day teaching at Naropa University was “Transgender Day,” but no one told me. It was also the day I discovered the “Warrior’s Bow,” which my students [...] 578 views |
How Yoga Failed in Aurora.by Dr. Katy Poole on Jul 25, 2012 What’s the real goal of yoga—to perfect the body and mind for one’s own enlightenment or to inspire a world free of stress and violence? I once posed a similar question to Swami Vishveshva Tirtha, the head of the Madhva Vedanta lineage in Udupi, India—a saint who started practicing meditation at the age of five. [...] 1,439 views |
 10 Ways to Get Your Wheels Back in Motion & Be Happy.by Dr. Katy Poole on Jul 17, 2012 You know what it’s like to feel stuck. You’ve arrived on one side of the tracks hoping to cross only to confront a slow moving wall. Its monotonous graffiti demands you find meaning in nothing like the running commentary on the lower screen of CNN. You can’t even be entertained with the thought of yourself [...] 564 views |
 Die before Dying: A Lesson from the Venus Transit.by Dr. Katy Poole on Jun 3, 2012 Death said: “The good is one thing, the pleasant another….The wise goes around them and distinguishes them. The wise prefers the good to the pleasant, but the fool chooses the pleasant through greed and avarice.” ~ Katha Upanishad The movement of Venus across our sun is a journey to the land of the dead. In [...] 824 views |
The Vicious Vocal Minority vs. John Friend.by Dr. Katy Poole on May 19, 2012 “The show is not the show, but they who go.” ~Emily Dickinson It’s amazing how much can change in a year. This exact time last year, I was sitting next to a girlfriend receiving a pedicure and doing what I normally do: listening. She’d just returned from a gathering with John Friend, exuding the same [...] 1,692 views |
Ganesha New Moon: A Vedic Astrological Update.by Dr. Katy Poole on Apr 19, 2012 “All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.” ~ Joseph Campbell Isn’t it ironic? Ganesha, the lord who removes obstacles, was born out of obstacles. The first one involved [...] 806 views |
How to Have a Killer Relationship. ~ Dr. Katy Pooleby Dr. Katy Poole on Mar 28, 2012 The secret in relationships is to be the person you want the other one to be. 902 views |
Jyotisha (Vedic Astrology) New Moon Update. ~ Dr. Katy Pooleby Dr. Katy Poole on Mar 20, 2012 March New Moon in Pisces This Month’s New Moon in Pisces beckons you toward the limitless ocean beyond your thinking, worrying, and obsessing mind—to the fabled dwelling place of the “serpent of the deep.” Legends abound concerning this mythological sea creature. He’s the Rainbow Serpent of the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime. He’s the Leviathan heralded in [...] 547 views |
Sky Full of Merit: Full Moon in Leo.by Dr. Katy Poole on Mar 8, 2012 Thursday’s Full Moon reminds me of how I imagine the second coming—with an Anthony Robbins-esque figure as the second-comer. 3,080 views |
Time Magazine’s (Yoga) Man of the Year & the Shakti Behind Him.by Dr. Katy Poole on Mar 5, 2012 And these three in unhealthy combinations have screwed up more good things than anything else throughout history. Now the future of yoga is on the chopping block—at a time when we really require unity—because a respected spiritual leader decided it might enhance the “efficacy” of his practices as well as his bottom line to enter this forbidden circle. 945 views |
Yoga & Tapas: No Surprises Here (A Response to William J. Broad’s NY Times Article).”by Dr. Katy Poole on Feb 28, 2012 When I was a young graduate student of Religious Studies, I learned a dirty word: reductionism. 4,636 views |
Don’t Read Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Feel Them.by Dr. Katy Poole on Feb 18, 2012 Are you a serious yogi? Have you read the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali? I do not mean a commentary explaining to you how they relate to your yoga practice, but the actual sutras (the translated verses) themselves. 1,263 views |
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