http://stasosphere.com/experience-life Are you alive? Are you present? Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:38:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've now been doing Bikram's Yoga for about a year and a half, pretty much every other day or at least 3 times a week, with a 3-month break that I had after I had an ACL-replacement knee surgery. I wanted to share some insights I gained through the process. I ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2008/11/how-to-have-a-better-bikram-yoga-experience/ What's Tantra Yoga - An evening with Swami Vivekananda Saraswati, the founder of Agama Yoga. Introduction: Swami Vivekananda Saraswati gave a free talk on Tantra Yoga on Oct 22 2008 in Vancouver, Canada. I really enjoyed the 2.5 hours of Swami's monologue, followed by Q&A. I found it to be very enlightening. ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2008/10/what-is-tantra-yoga/ I discovered Ginger Tea while living in Montreal. I used to go to a local acupuncturist because I was low on energy. Besides doing the acupuncture, my practitioner recommended making Ginger Tea. I quickly fell in love with this drink because it tastes so good and works as a great ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2008/10/ginger-tea-as-a-cold-remedy-and-an-energizer-for-low-energy-days/ Tonight was the first part of the "Alchemy of Sensuality" workshop by Little Woo. There were 9 women, 3 men and lots of chocolate... but wait, it gets even better. The first half of this 3 hour evening was dedicated to a discussion about Sensuality, what it is and what it is ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2008/10/chocolasm-101-the-chocolate-orgasm-for-men/ I discovered the power of working with fear of death several years ago, while listening to one of motivational audio books. The idea was to do the following exercise: Imagine yourself on your deathbed. No, really, do that. You can't do that? But did you know that you could die or ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2008/01/how-fear-of-death-could-be-your-best-friend/ Not once I've heard that we tend to self-sabotage our own success, because we don't want to leave the comfort of a struggle. I think I finally understand what it means to self-sabotage my own success. All my life I've been struggling. First childhood, then school and professional sports, then university ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2008/01/sabotaging-our-success-no-challenges-challenge/ Back in 2002 I traveled extensively in Tibet and China. I did a few extreme and amazing hikes in the Tibet area. On one of them, to the Everest foot, I was lucky to return from it alive. Here is the account of that vicious "hike". Sunday, Oct 13 2002 I've ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2007/12/extreme-hiking-to-everests-base/ A professional swimmer in my youth, I continued swimming as my main workout, but recently I happened to suffer more and more from scapula issues, which swimming aggravated (since I swim for about 1 hour, about 3K). And my partner suggested that I try Bikram's yoga for a month. I was ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2007/11/getting-a-kick-out-of-bikrams-yoga/ Back in June 2007 I participated in the life transformation workshop from the CURA Institute for Integrated Learning. Indeed it was quite a transformational experience for me. A quick description of the workshop setup: 3 days, a dozen participants, one facilitator and two assistants. A safe TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone) is masterfully ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2007/11/why-dysfunctional-environment-is-a-blessing-in-disguise/ Over the last couple of years I've been going through various transformational experiences and I decided to start this blog to have the process better documented, and perhaps it might inspire other people to experience their lives better. The topics are going to be fear, anxiety, love, aliveness, procrastination, ... http://stasosphere.com/experience-life/2007/11/introduction/