To parrot Frederich Nietzche, when we stare into the abyss for too long, the abyss stares back at us. I have found myself staring into the abyss,  perambulating its event horizon until my feet fell out, and my mind became blurred. The abyss staring back at me. Anger is necessary, it is a helpful way to vent, shout and scream out our rgae, discomfort, and tear out the injustice of it all. But anger has two faces; positive and negative. When we hang onto it, righeously or otherwise,  for too...

This illusive, sought after thing is not an illusion. It is tge ever flowing vibration beneath the grime, crime, and slime of living. It is immutable energy always present always accessible, if we learn how to stay open to it. Happiness is not what we think it is.  It is not to be found in the state of the mind. It is not a goal to be pursued.  Like desires, it arises from the depth of our past impressions stored within the cognition over many rebirths. We can no more control desires than we...

Ode to Flaco- magical, mystical citizen of NYC Partial Transcript- Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl, beloved citizen of NYC died sometime early Friday morning, on Feb 23rd. The snow moon has just risen in the eerie early morning. The researchers from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation traced two unique lunar communication behaviors of the Eurasian Eagle Owl during each of the major phase of the moon: vocal communication and visual communication. During the full moon the Eurasian...

Maya explores the way Sanskrit chants,  pilgrimages and other awe-inspiring practices of Nature heighten the natural scalar waves responsible for cohesion and wellness in the body. The way science views the pilgrim’s experience can be said, as follows:  Scalar waves generated in the body provide an energetic communication system that connects all cells. This energy contains the power of the universe and has unlimited potential.  All pilgrimages heighten our inner resource of positive...

Today, I received the shocking news about an old friend.  She is an elderly mother who was evicted from her home by her one and only son and daughter-in-law.  At  every turn of life, we can come face to face with bitter  lessons, and the hearless actions of those who facilitate them.  During these times, it seems equally heartless to console the aggrevieved with words like, " remember the good days you shared, remember to keep your heart consoled by being grateful for the multitude of good...

A worthy rerun of this awesome episode:  Although we may strive for hapiness in our lives, it often appears illusive.... but happiness is not a chase or a hunt, it is a primoridial longing in tge very cell and memory of our vital tissues. It is to be seized from moment to moment. Becuae it is generally wrapped in the mundane , in routines, in events we take for granted. Listen to the melody of the winds brushing against space, or the drops of water filtering into a pond, or the beauty of a...

Maya speaks passionately to our natural composition of awareness and how we squander away much of this largesse by becoming  attached to and overrating the importance of commodities in our lives. Support the showMay Peace Be Your Journey~ www.mayatiwari.com www.facebook.com/mayatiwari ahimsa.Buzzsprout.com

We are formed from the universal cosmic sound. The Vedic seers refer to this Sound as "OM".  This sounds incorporates all sounds. There are trillions of sounds which are endemic to our cosmos that heals. Every cell, memory and tissue is formed from the cosmic sound. Sound Medicine is our natural inner medicine, free and abundantly available in nature. Indeed, sound is central to the very act of creation. Vedic lore tells us that Goddess Durga rode her lion, carried her damaru (a small,...

At this pivotal time in human consciousness evolution, at the third year milestone of COVID-19, the most important practice we can do is neither physical/emotional, or financial. It is the selfless practice of prayer – spiritual service that helps to restore ancestral memory so that we may heal the long ignored rift with the spirit world. In this way we can begin to heal ourselves and Mother Nature. Support the showMay Peace Be Your...

At every moment we can be rejuvenated by nature's sunds, music, the whistling of the wind, the plopping sound of the rains, the gushing waters, the hushed leaves of the autumn.  In my years as a Vedic monk, chanting the Sanskrit mantras on a daily basis kept my vibratory field high and illumined. During those years, I lived in a large pristine forest, chanted with cows, meditated with deer  and basked in the gift of Nature's inner medicine sound healing. Years later, I was to face the...

We are forever healing. We heal into life. We heal into living and into death. We feel divided not because of our differences but because we do not support or allow each other the powerful diversity that manifests within each one of us. Our gender and biological sex is a potent example of this view. Gender differences is but one minute factor in the quintillion variety of nature’s  majestic realm mirrored within the  human person. To heal and reclaim wholeness, it is critical that we embrace...

By observing a timely lunar fast, we gather ourselves in silence, and restfulness, and replenish much more than our health.  Counting eleven days from the onset of the New Moon, and from the day of the Full Moon, you will discover Ekadashi Vedic way of cleansing and harmonizing body with lunar support. Ekadashi is the optimum time to carve out time for your reprieve – a time to observe fasting, and reclaiming lightness of mind and spirit. Listen In~ Support the showMay Peace Be Your...

Through her tireless work with her charitable organization, the Mother Om Mission, Maya reminds us that at any time of the year when challenges arise  that first we take pause and then do the surprising healing action of opening palm to the outer world in a posture that awakens the memory of giving, the sentiency of our human heart. Dana Mudra, the open-handed state of awareness we must remember to keep alive so as to bond with each other , and keep humanity in kindness. Support the showMay...

Awareness thrives when we are able to create and recreate space within ourselves; Especially during arduous, violent and brutal circumstances when living appears to close us down, we tend to shrink our joy, and sense of purpose. Maya unfolds the power of awareness through her own profound personal experiences.  She informs that awareness is the innate intelligence that is imbued in each and every person. She reminds us that the key to healing is in the preservation of inner space- that we...

The time has come to rid the false belief system that keeps us mired in a "race" conflict. Maya elucidated the knowledge that we are all formed from an ancient genetic weave that interlaces our blood lines. The taboo of racial divide, racial hatred, bigotry has been paying out for centuries and we have bought into it. Humanity has endured countless invasions, terrorism, violence amongst empires and nations based primarily on "racial divide and varying ideologies. In fact, there has never been...

When pioneers of healing via cosmic sound, songs, and feminine wholeness get together, MAGIC happens. In this session, Maya speaks with Michele Blood, in a soul-warming conversation where Michele brings her high vibrational  voice in song: "I Am Love." Listen In~ Sing Along ~ About Michele Blood: Michele is a transformational healer, having survived a near-fatal accident.  A renowned rock singer in her early life, Michele brings her musical largesse to her Affirmation songs/music to help...

A half a century  after my self-healing process from ovarian cancer, and having supported so many women in thier healing sojourns, I believe the most important steps for self-healing is, awareness. The innate ability to cut loose, be still, take pause, and breathe. We are awareness in human form, once we are able to align ourselves with this truth, we can survive the most cruel events, and heal. absolutely. Support the showMay Peace Be Your...

In celebration of Martin Luther King's Day~ a talk on ahimsa, non-harm, positive actions and thoughts that can change the challenging conditions of a suffering world.  This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Support the showMay Peace Be Your Journey~ www.mayatiwari.com www.facebook.com/mayatiwari ahimsa.Buzzsprout.com

"I hear you" is the most compassionate medicine we can share with each other.  To have someone acknowledge our words, how we feel, especially during times when we find it difficult to move forward, find our way,  or when the heart feels severed from its humanity. These are times when we find ourselves in that deep slothful rut.....when the kindness of a listening ear can be the most effective balm for the suffering heart...  Listen In~ Support the showMay Peace Be Your...

The undifferentiated  white of winter creates a sound barrier that suppresses noises, disharmonies. The pristine beauty of the snow. Bow to Mother Earth and reclaim your inner silence, that brings forth your expansive space to be still and observe; to feel hope budding again, to have the companionship of winter's serene, buffered light.  Cold, yet warming.  Alone, yet embracing. Support the showMay Peace Be Your Journey~ www.mayatiwari.com www.facebook.com/mayatiwari ahimsa.Buzzsprout.com

Maya shares personal moments of the art of giving through Dana Mudra and her tireless work with her charitable organization, the Mother Om Mission. She reminds us that at this Yule, when all traditions are celebrating the year's end, some in summer and others in the wintry season, that we take pause and gather our open palm to the outer world in a posture that awakens the memory of giving, the sentiency of our human heart. Dana Mudra, a gift from the Vedic Tradition. Support the showMay Peace...

A private span of mementos with Maya as she reflects on her journey with and through Ayurveda over the past forty years~ Support the showMay Peace Be Your Journey~ www.mayatiwari.com www.facebook.com/mayatiwari ahimsa.Buzzsprout.com

Maya unpacks deep reflection on her journey with Ayurveda from its state of dilapidation and near demise in India to her efforts in its wondrous resurgence, albeit everything is not as it seems.... Support the showMay Peace Be Your Journey~ www.mayatiwari.com www.facebook.com/mayatiwari ahimsa.Buzzsprout.com

Maya's explores her theory of "cosmic memory" by way of the beautiful animal, the cow, whose maternal, innocent and loving characteristics she attributes to the 'carrier' of Shakti , primordial feminine energy" on Earth. Maya advances seamless insight of her extraordinary theory  that all species are connected through the cosmic memory network. A simple example is unpacked through the cow, its cosmic memory and the practice of yoga. As always, thought-provoking and awe-inspiring. Support the...