This Holiday Season Please Consider Becoming a Sponsor Or make a one time donation. Your money goes a very long way in India. $40 is all it takes to put one child through school for an entire year. Read on to hear about all of the wonderful accomplishments we have made in the past year and ...

Why a Week of Silence? When I was 27 years old I started meditating to help with the constant pain of a three year long ulcer that no amount of zantac or Prilosec would calm. The first day I started to meditate, the ulcer never bothered me again. That was the first miracle. I remember driving ...

If the Pursuit of Happiness is in our Constitution, then why are we so unhappy? Every year a variety of publications produce reports on the top 10 happiest countries in the world. The USA is never in the top 10 on any of the lists! Our northern neighbor Canada is in the top 10, but we ...

My Yoga Journey When I discovered meditation in my 20's, I felt as if I woke up in my life. It felt as if my life didn't even start until I started meditating daily. Now in hindsight I know that what was different was that I started living life from my soul. I start responding instead ...

Is your time and attention. Most of us would sooner hand a stranger $5 then give them our time and attention. Therefor the most valuable commodity in your busy life, is truly your time and attention. What do focus your time and attention on? Wherever you put your attention, grows. Pretty simple math really, but do ...

I arrived to South India a few days ago and it feels great to be here, my spiritual home, the motherland of yoga and meditation, INDIA. I have been coming to India since the year 2000 so by now it feels very much like home to me. I remember the sacred mountain Arunachala,  (the oldest mountain ...

Don't Take Anything Personally What somebody says to you or says about you tells you more about them, then it does about you. That was a lesson that I learned many years ago and one that I still use each and every day. A natural law that says 'Don't take anything personal.' Even your experience of ...

When I discovered meditation in my 20's it was originally for health reasons. I had a very painful ulcer at the age of 27 and no amount of prescription antacids helped. The day I got a mantra and learned to meditate was the day my stomach pain went away! Seriously, I tell no lie. I ...

I remember the first yoga class I walked into over 23 years ago. It was at the Sheraton Hotel in La Jolla, California at my first Deepak Chopra event. Can you believe my first yoga class was at a hotel? What is even more interesting is that for the next ten years I didn't even ...

Kannan and Suganthi Marry! Our manager Kannan here on the right married Suganthi who is one of the children's house mothers! So we have a love connection here at the Children's Home, When I was in India this past January I spent an afternoon with Kannan who manages our Children's Home in South India. Kannan was himself an ...