This episode aired on June 10th, 2015. Today’s guest on Flourish is Dr. Raphael Kellman, an internist who practices integrative medicine and who is an expert on assisting people alleviate the root causes of their ailments. Chief among these root causes is what’s known as your microbiome— the bacteria in your gut, your genitals, and your mouth and throat. Indeed 80% of our immune system is at the openings of the body. Tune in and listen to how you can disease-proof yourself by cultivating your inner garden! 

You And Your Microbiome

Here are the meditations and introductions for day 1 of the 2015 Triratna International Urban Retreat on the theme of 'Living In The Greater Mandala'.

www.thebuddhistcentre.com/urbanretreat

This set comprises:

01 Kamalashila introducing and leading through the Mindfulness of Breathing meditation practice. Suitable for those new to meditation.

02 Rijumitra introducing the Brahma Vicars series of Buddhist meditation practices. These are: the Metta Bhavana (Cultivation of Loving Kindness), the Karuna Bhavana (Cultivation of Compassion in response to suffering), the Mudita Bhavana (Cultivation of Sympathetic Joy with others), Upekkha Bhavana (Cultivation of Equanimity).

03 Rijumitra introducing the first of the Brahma Viharas series of Buddhist meditations - the Metta Bhavana (Cultivation of Loving Kindness).

04 Tejananda introducing and leads through a Just Sitting meditation practice.

Recorded for the Triratna International Urban Retreat 2015 at Vajraloka Retreat Centre, Wales.

Tejananda - Guided Just Sitting Meditation Practice

sound mo(ve)ments - music for meditation is available for purchase at saraauster.com

F I R E - sound mo(ve)ments

Тринадцатая лекция из цикла "Тибетский буддизм с самых основ", основанного на одноименной книге доктора Алана Уоллеса. Лектор: буддийский монах, переводчик дост. Лобсанг Тенпа

Материалы / видео / слайды лекции: www.contemplative.ru/tibetan-buddhism-13

Развитие духа пробуждения (тибетский буддизм, часть 13)

Kraj za miastem

Kujawiak Rytla

This layer song from Katie Sontag is such a gem! A four-part ride, and each one is a joy to sing.

Original song by Katie Sontag. Slight arrangement variations made with permission. Recording by Lisa G. Littlebird.

For lyrics, individual part tracks and more, please visit: http://thebirdsings.com/bond-of-trust/

Bond Of Trust by Katie Sontag

Morrow

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Susie Ibarra
© 2018 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2019 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded August 2019 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

Pulsation

Susie Ibarra - Pulsation

This is an extract from a longer interview. The interviewer is Chris Alyssia from Awake TV.  

The ascension process is not about neutralising the ego it is about upgrading it. Upgrading the ego is about shifting our identity into a larger perspective, where all resistance to embracing our authentic or Higher Self is dropped. 

In 3D the ego is both guidance and protection system. In 3D there is a broad spectrum where at one end there is a fully functioning ego and at the other all the various dysfunctions that can occur. To shift into 4D we need a functional ego. In 4D we are learning a more fluid and flexible approach to life. There is a greater appreciation that this is only one life amongst many. That we contain many energies including both masculine and feminine. In 4D we are learning that we create and co-create our reality. In 5D there is a shift into unity consciousness. In 5D stabilising in a higher vibration where all limits to joy, to freedom, to growth, to love are removed. In 5D we discover there are no limits to flow and possibility.

4. Patience Reset Series

Ashley Wray