Jai Ma Gracious Gurus!

(Bow)

Thank you for being you all of you wonderful Guru supporters. We are so grateful for each and every one of you! February has flown by and we are steadfastly preparing for our time at the SXSW Festival. In honor of this mind-blowing event we honored to discuss it’s origins on this week’s show. Co-founder of SXSW and the Austin Chronicle, Louis Black (below) will share with us his vision behind launching this world-renowned music, film and interactive festival 25 years ago and explain how he watched it catapult to one of the most highly regarded events of its kind.

We’re also proud to stand with and welcome back pal and previous #WIMG guest Tommy Rosen (below) co-founder of Tadasana Festival, a green-minded gathering committed to giving back.

If  you would like to join us, please feel free to call anytime between 11 am – 12 om EST / 8 am – 9 am PST / 9 am – 10 am MST on Friday, February 24 at the below contact information:

Listen online: www.zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in to appear live on the show: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

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“There will never be a storm
That can wash the path from my feet,
The direction from my heart,
The light from my eyes,
Or the purpose from this life.”
~ Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Rock On Guru Pals!

You Guru fans are bringing the house down with your love and light! We are incredibly honored to talk with you about this Friday’s upcoming show! Author of Yoga and Mantras for a Whole Heart, host of Spirit Voyage Radio with Ramdesh, and one of the organizers of the upcoming Kundalini-inspired Sat Nam Fest, #WIMG come-back guest Ramdesh Kaur (below) joins us to discuss how to bring the light of mantra into the realm of manifestation, and her plans to bang out a rockin’ yoga festival in Joshua Tree, CA from April 12 – 15. #WIMG will be there!

And find out what all the hoopla is about as we also welcome ecstatic embodiment expert and coach Jocelyn Gordon (below left with Jess). Jocelyn offers coaching programs and retreats facilitating transformational and fun dance experiences that inspire women out of procrastination and into a passionate and embodied life. #yes!

If  you would like to join us, please feel free to call anytime between 11 am – 12 om EST / 8 am – 9 am PST / 9 am – 10 am MST on Friday, February 17 at the below contact information:

Listen online: www.zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in to appear live on the show: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

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“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.” ~ Anais Nin

Jai Ma Fellow Gurus!

We are so honored to tell you about our upcoming show this Friday February 10,2012. We will be welcoming two of our communities strong women. One of today’s most prolific writers on the social media landscape, L.A.-based writer, interviewer, Guru pal and brand spankin’ new Managing Editor of Intentblog.com, Chelsea Roff covers topics ranging from child sex trafficking to addiction to political activism to the sexiness of seva. Oh, the places she will go.

As some of you may know the Anusara community was shocked with accusations left and right this week. Here at Where Is My Guru we are committed to proving members of our community with information and we were lucky enough to be able to snag Anusara teacher Bernadette Birney for a guest this Friday. We will be talking about what it means to stand strong as a community during difficult times. How do we rise up? What are our next steps?

If  you would like to join us, please feel free to call anytime between 11 am – 12 om EST / 8 am – 9 am PST / 9 am – 10 am MST on Friday, February 10 at the below contact information:

Listen online: www.zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in to appear live on the show: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

Listen in by phone: 917-388-4642

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“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.”

- Saint Bartholomew

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Hello Guru Friends!

We are honored to peek into this week’s show with you! It’s a guaranteed good time. Celebrated every 12 years for millenia, the Kumbha Mela is the largest spiritual gathering on the planet. Learn more from Shelly Craigo, the organizer behind the Himalayan Institute‘s epic pilgrimage to India. We also welcome Kimberly Moon (below), owner and founder of the Caribbean Yoga Conference, bringing together some of the world’s most beloved teachers for a celebration of sun, sadhana, sand seva and sangha.

If  you would like to join us, please feel free to call anytime between 11 am – 12 om EST / 8 am – 9 am PST / 9 am – 10 am MST on Friday, February 3 at the below contact information:

Listen online: www.zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in to appear live on the show: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

Listen in by phone: 917-388-4642

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“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” ~Buddha

Gracious Greetings Fellow Gurus!

As you may know Where Is My Guru is gearing up for a trip down to Austin, TX where we will be presenting our panel “Radio Free Yoga: Self Realize x Social Enterprise” at this years SXSW Interactive. In the spirit of this upcoming event we’re thrilled to welcome special guests and fellow speakers from the SXSW community on the show through March and this week we have a double whammy for your listening pleasure.

We are thrilled to welcome Anni Poppen a Seva-centered graphic designer, founded NEOI to effectively, efficiently, and frugally provide not-for-profit organizations and foundations with a holistic campaign of marketing tools needed to make a difference—successfully. We also bring you social media author and expert, not-for-profit pioneer and SXSW Interactive presenter of “Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy,” Amy Sample Ward (below) of NTEN, the membership organization of nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes.

If  you would like to join us, please feel free to call anytime between 11 am – 12 om EST / 8 am – 9 am PST / 9 am – 10 am MST on Friday, January 27 at the below contact information:

Listen online: www.zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in to appear live on the show: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

Listen in by phone: 917-388-4642

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"We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts." ~Pema Chödrön

Greetings Fellow Guru Comrades!

After kicking off the new year in a GIGANTIC way these past two weeks, we are psyched to bring you the details of our next kick @ss show, this Friday January 20,2012! We can hardly wait to welcome YogaDork to the Guru radio waves. The Dork has been a constant source of information for our weekly Guru News so it is only natural we finally get to sit down and converse, immersed in Dorky goodness!

We are also so grateful to have lady of light and Anusara Goddess Amy Ippoliti on the show with us this week. We just are so excited to pick her brain and open our hearts to this amazing woman. Surely Amy can spread some of her light through your speakers and help to kick off your weekends in a mindful way!

If  you would like to join us, please feel free to call anytime between 11 am – 12 om EST / 8 am – 9 am PST / 9 am – 10 am MST on Friday, January 20 at the below contact information:

Listen online: www.zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in to appear live on the show: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

Listen in by phone: 917-388-4642

Chat: www.herewomentalksocial.com

“To be Self Realized you must first realize that you have the same amount of God in you as everyone else around you.” ~Dharma Mittra

Greetings Gurus!

Where Is My Guru will be airing LIVE this Friday January 13,2012 from the Yoga Journal Conference in San Fransisco! We are so thrilled to be able to have you with us at this exciting event and we are extremely grateful to bring two wonderful guests on the show as well!

The wonderful and talented Kasey Luber (below wigged and winged), ambassador for Yoga Aid, video maven and founder of Big Happy Day will be gracing us with her jubilant in-the-flesh-prescence and we will also be talking with #WIMG come-back guest and our very own  Feel Good Guru Moira Nordholt.

If  you would like to join us, please feel free to call anytime between 11 am – 12 om EST / 8 am – 9 am PST / 9 am – 10 am MST on Friday, January 13 at the below contact information:

Listen online: www.zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in to appear live on the show: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

Listen in by phone: 917-388-4642

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Welcome To 2012 Guru Friends!

We are totally pumped to start the New Year with our first show of 2012 this Friday January 6! England-based life coach Abi White (below) was our first guest in 2011 and coined it “The Year of Infinate Abundance.” What the heckin’ flip will 2012 bring? #onlytheshadowknows #wellactuallyAbiWhiteknows

We will also welcome Vandita Kate Marchesiello (below), senior teacher and Director of Kripalu’s Teaching for Diversity program which provides grants and scholarships to members of the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association (KYTA) and the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers (IABYT) to teach in disadvantaged schools or to diverse populations such as ethnic minorities and those socially, economically, or physically challenged. Read more about their impressive list of past grant recipients here.

If  you would like to join us, please feel free to call anytime between 11 am – 12 om EST / 8 am – 9 am PST / 9 am – 10 am MST on Friday, January 6 at the below contact information:

Listen online: www.zeusradio.com/player/hwt/

Call in to appear live on the show: 877-500-ZEUS (9387)

Listen in by phone: 917-388-4642

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“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person.”  ~Benjamin Franklin

While our online radio hosting station Here Women Talk takes a much-needed break from regularly scheduled live programming this week (#HoHoHo), hooray for our archive show re-play today featuring the one and only John Friend, founder of founder of Anusara Yoga. Just back from his teachings at a Wanderlust event in Las Vegas, John shared with us his thoughts about keeping ourselves centered while in a stimulated environment. We also talked about how the conceptual vision of Anusara Yoga is now specifically called Shiva-Shakti Tantric, and how it relates to Anusara’s interpretations of our inner and outer energies. Topics ranged from John’s combination of the Shaivite (focusing on Shiva as pure consciousness) and Shakti articulations of tantric philosophy, bringing a unique perspective to this ancient practice.

John Friend: What Vegas does, for instance, is it almost consciously tries to pull you out of your quiet center, and take you into a highly outward, stimulated environment, to make you excited, to have fun, and so on. There is something to that. At the same time there is an inner experience which is not often found in Vegas. It is often the focus of Yoga. Yoga being that if you want to connect to everything on the outside, the way to do that is to really connect in your very essence. It’s through that essence which I would call Shiva-Shakti, or the unity aspect of the universe, in that if you can go inside the very center of yourself, you can actually plug into everything else. To do that, to get into your center, you have to be able, to some degree, to withdraw from the outside and be able to focus in your core.

Our archive also features the wonderful and talented Kasey Luber, ambassador for Yoga Aid, video maven, and founder of Big Happy Day, spreading her message of yoga, health, and awareness through conscious media and the medium of video.

Kasey Luber: The founders of Yoga Aid were donating money to different Yoga charities and found that it wasn’t having the impact that they would have liked it to have. While you can donate money to someone, it’s a really different story to engage whole communities to get involved. They help set up the actual event, and then people in communities across America and around the world are setting up these local events, and getting people within their community to raise money. We just hit $86,000 and that has been all through people asking for personal donations within their community. People ask, “What’s a Yoga charity?” It’s a charity that’s putting Yoga into the places that we need it most–schools, correctional facilities, Africa.

To listen to the rest of the show, please click here.

Hello Beloved Guru Friends!!

Friday December 16, 2011 marked an important milestone in Guru history. It was the last LIVE show of the year and we are so honored to share with you all of the wonderful details about it-we went out with a bang! Kirtan artist Girish, known for his funky flows and beats that stir the soul, was on the line with us for the first half of the show. He shared everything from letting us in on what keeps him inspired as an artist to why he was coined the “Little Drummer Boy” when he was just a young boy.
We were also joined by Yoshi Aono, founder of the Hanuman Festival, in honor of a beloved flying deity. Co-host Jessica Durivage was live from Yoshi’s living room as we talked shop about last years Hanuman Festival and what we can expect for Hanuman 2012. He also talked with us about the Seva work he does, like his recent trip to Haiti, and what it means to him to live a life of service. He really put great meaning behind the definition letting us know that no act of service is to small, and there are things we can do each day to make our contributions to the world around us and the people in it.
Yoshi Aono: “Seva as a word, I never really knew the term Seva. I had heard it before over the years but I was in the process of going on these humanitarian trips and being of service around the world and someone walked over to me and said oh we love your Seva and I looked at them and said well what the hell is that? A lot of the Yogic philosophies speak to me because I grew up in an immigrant Japanese household where there are a lot of Buddhist philosophies going on. Once I started practicing Yoga it really fit. It is within you it’s a calling to give back. In the beginning of this interview we talked about how we have so much abundance around us and it’s nice to be aware that there are other people that can use some help. If you can get out there, you don’t have to go to Haiti, Africa, just get out there and help your neighbor, find something that speaks to you and give back. It comes back tenfold.”

To listen to the rest of the show, please click here.

Well friends 2011 was a year of great abundance and we are so blessed to have your wonderful support and camaraderie. Happy holidays to everyone and we will see you again in 2012. Namaste.

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi