Music as Meditation
By Dhara Lemos
All beautiful and great music comes out of the space within. Some people call that space the soul, and you need to have a soul to create music.
Something magical happens when great sounds are created, or even just before a performance. Where does the music come from? Where do the […]

The Spiritual Law of Dharma
AUM Meditation
By Dhara Lemos

The body is like a musical instrument. It needs to be in harmony. When the harmony is disturbed, you are also disturbed. Why is it that we feel so good when we hear music? Why do we feel such well-being when we listen to music? […]

The Heart Meditation
By Dhara Lemos
Healing your world, one community at a time.
Healing your community, one person at a time.
Start with yourself!
The world looks upside down. So many catastrophes—hurricanes, earthquakes, and so on. What is going on with our planet Earth? I like to believe that what is happening is something that is supposed to […]

Sky Meditation

By Dhara Lemos
“Open your mind. Allow your heart to be pierced by this divine arrow that will shatter every definition of yourself. Allow yourself to be empty, nothing, nobody. Allow yourself the sweet bewilderment in God. Then wait and see.”
A Love Secret Spoken, by Gangaji
You might want to call this meditation “Stepping Free.” […]

Mind, No Mind, and Beyond
By Dhara Lemos
If you have any experience with meditation, you have encountered one of the biggest obstacles to meditation—the chattering mind. Here starts our battle with the mind, and for sure we will lose that battle.
So what can we do to quiet the mind? The answer is: Do nothing! Just watch, […]

Tantric Dance Meditation
By Dhara Lemos
Q: What is tantric dance meditation?
A: It is a free form of dance that follows the way of tantric meditation—with awareness.
Q: What is the tantric way?
A: The tantra says: Accept yourself as you are. It is a deep acceptance. Welcome the basic energy you are born with, and through it, […]

Meditation, The Way In
“The Watcher”
By Dhara Lemos
This time we’re going to talk about the very core of meditation . . . awareness. All meditation techniques have the same goal, which is to make us more awakened/alert than we ordinarily are. A few essential things are necessary in every technique: a relaxed state, no […]

Meditation, The Way In
By Dhara Lemos
 
Photo: Dhara at Table Top Mountain, 2005
In every age people have sought to understand themselves, their world, and their universe. They have sought awareness, consciousness, inner knowing, enlightenment and transformation in the search for themselves.
“Know Yourself ” has always been the fundamental teaching of every spiritual tradition. […]