Yoga with Kewal

01/01/2023

Sliding-scale counseling in Los Angeles needs your support!

We are in a mental health crisis and the antidote is community + sliding-scale counseling. This is what we provide at The Relational Center. From 2007-2020 we served clients in LA. From 2020 forward we have been serving clients throughout California.

We keep our doors open only through donations.
DONATE: secure.relationalcenter.org/kewal22 ♥️🙏🏽♥️

Art: Ernesto Yerena

12/08/2022

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." -- Audre Lorde

If you support QTBIPOC affirming sliding scale counseling based on social justice values -- please consider donating to the non-profit where I practice therapy, . We keep our doors open ONLY through community donations.

DONATE: click my link in bio
Thank you! 🥰

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11/29/2022

PLEASE SUPPORT SLIDING-SCALE COUNSELING
For , please consider donating to The Relational Center which has been providing sliding-scale counseling to Angelenos since 2007 & state-wide since 2020.

We keep our doors open ONLY through community donations. TRC does not accept outside funding which often has strings attached regarding reporting client data and measurable outcomes; this is not in alignment with respecting a client's agency & privacy, and additionally, healing cannot be quantified.

Please click through my link to donate -- no tax-deductible gift is too small! Thank you for your generosity so we can continue our mission to serve those in need! ❤

I am fundraising for a very important community mental health resource in Los Angeles, The Relational Center. As I finished my master's in social work, I completed a clinical internship with TRC from August 2021 to April 2022 that changed my life. It was a tremendous blessing to train at TRC a...

01/01/2022

❤ PLEASE SUPPORT SLIDING SCALE COUNSELING IN LA ❤

At , we are 100% community funded and we need you!

We have till midnight to reach our goal so we can keep serving marginalized and underserved communities. Even the price of a latte will help us! ❤

DONATE: https://secure.relationalcenter.org/kewal
Thank you!

08/23/2021

TODAY!

White Sun released a brand new version of Sa Re Sa Sa, a mantra for luck and prosperity. 💜💙

Buy it here and get a 4-minute ++AND++ a 34-minute version:
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08/03/2021

Resources for processing the grief of Guru Jagat's passing:

(1) Gurujas taught a beautiful class yesterday exactly 12 hours after Guru Jagat made her transition. She offers words of comfort about what happened and how we move forward. It is uploaded as free content here:
https://ramayogainstitute.com/community-livestream/

(2) Harijiwan led the Mahan Jaap meditation last night and offered words of wisdom and comfort: https://ramayogainstitute.com/community-livestream/

(3) If you would like to play and chant the Akal, Gurujas has kindly uploaded the 1 hour version by White Sun to Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lc8wk9pzrqzx9ee/Akal%20[Extended%20Version].mp3?dl=0

(4) Join the 24 hour Zoom chanting of Akal with the RA MA community for the next 15 days: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85775636253...

(5) Keep up your practice and keep progressing - this is the greatest gift you can give a teacher.

Sat Nam

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08/03/2021

FULL MOON IN YOUR HEART

The Teacher, or the spiritual friend, enters your system much as medicine is injected into your veins. According to the tradition, this is known as planting the heart of enlightenment. It is transplanting the full moon into your heart. Can you imagine the full moon coming through your living room window and coming closer and suddenly entering your heart? On the one hand, unless you are terribly resentful, usually it is a tremendous relief: "Phew. The full moon has entered my heart." That's great, wonderful. On the other hand, however, when that particular full moon has entered into your heart, when it's transplanted into your heart, you might have a little panic. "Good heavens, what have I done? There's a moon in my heart. What am I going to do with it? It's too shiny!" By the way, once that moon has entered your heart, it cannot be a waning moon. It never wanes. It is always waxing.
-- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Think like this, time is very precious, and you have a short time on the planet earth and the direction you go and the frequency you follow determines everything. And time doesn’t come back. So, come with a reverence, come with a clarity of consciousness, come with an applied intelligence that the direction of your life and the time and space you need to cross, make it worthwhile, positive, beneficial experience. And if you can move it into the frequency of the higher realms then you leave behind memory, a legacy, a path, a direction, that others can follow. So, please give your best, to yourself, to the future, and to those who will follow you.
-- Harijiwan

Akal, Akal, Akal, dearest Guru Jagat. You are the full moon in our hearts. We love you. We will carry on your legacy through raising the excellence of our caliber, joyfully exploring beauty and innovation at every turn, make hunting for prana a mission, and embodying your fierce warrior spirit. Sat Nam, sister. Until next time. ❤💛

12/08/2020

What is the difference between calling someone out and cyber bullying (a tactic employed in cancel culture)?

Calling out President-elect Biden, in a respectful manner, for filling the Department of Justice with a roster of corporate lawyers is holding him accountable. This is practicing free speech.

Cyber bullying is ruthlessly attacking him, his family, or his perceived vulnerabilities (example: age, measured speech which results from overcoming a childhood stutter, etc.) to get the point across and further the mission. This is a dishonorable and low-frequency abuse of free speech. This infographic drives this point home.

For an excellent essay explaining the dangers of cancel culture from the perspective of someone who has experienced it: https://hdox.substack.com/p/why-cancel-culture-matters?fbclid=IwAR3FvwWuiqbAWV1YE-GIxnRvNeZ2_wT3Hd49i8ZRP_LD8uIK4sz22pmx__4

09/20/2020

Being a true devotee of a faith/religion/path does not equal cultural appropriation. Very important Aquarian message from Chamtrul Rinpoche (excerpted):

"Even though Buddha Shakyamuni taught the Dharma in India 2500 years ago, and all of the unbroken Buddhist lineages since then have been in Asia, the Dharma is not Asian, and it does not belong to Asia. The Dharma is for everybody, everywhere, throughout time and space."

FULL QUOTE:

“Even though Buddha Shakyamuni taught the Dharma in India 2500 years ago, and all of the unbroken Buddhist lineages since then have been in Asia, the Dharma is not Asian, and it does not belong to Asia. The Dharma is for everybody, everywhere, throughout time and space.

Whichever nationality that you have been reborn into this lifetime, the Dharma is for you, right now, right where you are, as you always have Buddha nature. And you will achieve exactly the same results as every past master since Shakyamuni Buddha, if you simply study the Dharma and put it into practice, no matter where you live in the world. This is guaranteed.” — Chamtrul Rinpoche

03/19/2020

Practice every day with Tej Kaur Khalsa of Nine Treasures Yoga on Zoom for only $5. Register: ninetreasuresyoga.com

Live Stream Day 3 ✅ We love sharing this energy with you world wide every morning ! Thank you to everyone tuning in and everyone working behind the scenes to make this happen ! See you tommorow morning 9 am PST 🌎🤗💕

03/13/2020

FREE LIVESTREAM!

March 15, 2020
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