Yoga, meditation, and even so-called enlightenment... it's all about approach and arrival. From another perspective it is therefore about letting go. Letting go of what, exactly? Letting go of our habitual and culturally inherited fixation on seeking yoga through...
I maintain a group called Human Empowerment over on LinkedIn (a professional/social networking site). You can access that group HERE. Recently a member raised the following question: What are your thoughts on how to empower teenagers? Their brains aren't fully...
I don't pay much attention to the mainstream media. I never have. Well, not since I was a child and I couldn't see the logic in willingly allowing myself to be lied to and deceived. I do, however, come across tidbits of information from the media... filtering their...
I stopped eating meat when I was about 18 or so. I didn't really have any logical reasons for stopping. I was simply aware that it did not feel like something I was meant to continue doing. Admittedly I had been practicing Yoga for some years prior to this time and...
Today I was asked by a woman I know a few questions pertaining to relationships and the challenges that can arise in relationships. There was also mention of spiritual practice, and self definition, and maintaining that within a relationship. I felt moved to write the...
The following is the closing session at the Hrdaya Yoga (Unit One) retreat held in Toronto, April 2009. The topic explored was Emotional Integration through the Heart. At various points Jonathan is pointing to energy centres in the body whilst talking. Here is a...
Unity Church Mississauga, Canada, with Rev. Warran Dale Blackford interviewing Jonathan Evatt on…
On the 2nd of April 2009 I spent an hour with Rev. Warren Dale Blackford from Unity Church Mississauga, Canada. I was a guest speaker on Unity.fm on his show "The Art of Being". I have greatly enjoyed my connection with Dale (as he prefers to be called). It's been a...
This is Part Two of Exploring Hṛdaya Yoga. In Part One we took a look at what the Hṛdaya is. In this article we will explore how this pertains to the practice of Yoga. When teaching yoga to people, in groups and as individuals, my primary focus from a philosophical...
I have stated previously that our only "need" as a Divine Being is a mirror. The reason being that we are unconscious of what we are unconscious of. Pretty straight forward. At times that mirror comes in the form of feedback, projection, and remarks from the people I...
In this audiocast we shall take a look at the veil of concepts in the mind and the experience that resides behind that veil... freely accessible to those who dare to go beyond it, for those who dare to let their concepts go. Awareness and bliss are forever present,...
I've been saying for years that the US economy will collapse if it continues functioning the way it has been. Many other folk have been saying the same thing. A child could come to the same conclussion. If I spend more money than I have, I will go into debt. If I...
Whilst facilitating a workshop called "The Christ Within" last weekend in the town of Turku (Finland), I came across a book called Becoming Like God: Kabbalah and Our Ultimate Destiny by Michael Berg. In the front matter of this book (page 13 and 14) the following...
The Bible is loaded with statements preceeded by the words "I Am". Why is this? Who is this "I" referring to? Is it God? Is it the man Yeshua Ben Yoseph (Jesus the Christ)? Is it you and "I" as Man? In this video I take a brief look at this topic. This video was...
Hṛdaya Yoga (Hridaya Yoga) is Yoga of the Heart. The word Hṛdaya is also written in the forms Hrdaya (without the diacritic dot under the r) and Hridaya (a phonetic English form of the word). I may use any and all of these spellings in my writing about the Hṛdaya and...
The following is some discussion I’ve had with Albert over at The Urban Monk… I post it here as Part Two in an exploration of a new perspectives on Ego. Click here to read Part One. ——————– June 17th, 2007 at 6:22 PM Thanks Albert for sharing as you do.Interesting I...
In many spiritual teachings and also through the words of people I know and meet, I discern what I would best describe as form of multiple personality disorder in relationship to the ego. What I observe is an approach which perpetuates an apparent split between the...
Key steps to reclaiming your power and living an extraordinary life The Seven Empowerments are seven key priciples which—when you actively apply them to your life—will transform your world and the relationship you have with yourself, with other people, and with...
