Bøger af Matthew Remski

"An examination of the physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by Ashtanga yoga leader Pattabhi Jois and the culture, structures, and mythos that enabled it, grounded in investigative research and real survivor stories"--

How do a teacher of yoga and buddhism and an ayurvedic practitioner prepare for parenting? How do they understand themselves as men, and fathers? How can love, separation, grief, acceptance, and falling in love again be spiritual practices? This is a serious book about family as the first site of our evolution. It's intimate, existentially honest and strangely funny. Michael Stone and Matthew Remski share thirty years of yoga practice and teaching experience between them. They've each traveled far and wide to study and practice their contemplative arts-living in campervans in the dead of winter, dusty monasteries in South India, frigid temples in Japan and ashrams in rural America. As they both became expectant fathers, Michael and Matthew began an exchange of deeply personal letters that explore the interweaving themes of their lives amidst teachings from Zen, anecdotes from the yoga mat, observations from meditation and Ayurvedic recipes for postpartum broth. How does yoga inform their kitchen, laundry room and their love? How will they find help and take responsibility within a culture of manhood struggling to redefine itself? How can they use presence to integrate their past? How will supporting their partners through pregnancy, labour, and birth enrich their commitment to a spirituality rooted in intimacy and interdependence? Praise for Family Wakes Us Up "This book is a true gift for fathers and fathers-to-be. The intimacy of Michael's and Matthew's writing is extraordinary, and their honesty will help you find your way as you embark upon the magic carpet ride of being a father." -- Jack Kornfield, founder of Spirit Rock and author of A Path with Heart, and Trudy Goodman, founder of Insight LA ____________ "'Isn't it amazing that amidst whatever we think about, the sky still holds us up.' Like the unequivocal love that conscious parenting, and friendships are held within, this line beautifully captured for me the insightful and intimate tone of this book. Deeply personal and yet quintessentially universal, Michael and Matthew invite us into the innermost chambers of their being, revealing how they have allowed their hearts to open, to close, to break, to heal. They both care deeply about the complex dynamics of relationships and the genuine aspiration to be loving fathers . . . a book for all fathers to be . . . and mothers too!" -Sarah Powers, author of Insight Yoga

A rosary of personal, ethnographic, and psycho-somatic prayer-poems that peer into the nature of consciousness. It fetishizes bead-and-string technology as the foundational mechanism for multiple disciplines of inquiry: linguistics, astronomy, sexology, and computing. At the very centre of everything we do, this serial work claims, is a sequence of ones and zeroes that constitute the repetitive and immutable chant of the cosmos. The work is self-referential, holding the structure of a prayer-session through its beaded episodes, but offering a broken and heterodox content that attempts to mirror the sublime ambivalences of evolving complexity. It employs the technique of prayer to subvert old notions of prayer, and reorient devotion towards the horizontal and the changing. The personal themes of speak to multiple conversions, metaphysical and continental wandering, east-west conflict and dialogue, and the growing realization that this flesh, handling these words, beads, and pages, underlies all meaning, value, and love. "Bound together by devotion, wildness, and long practice, this string of pages tells several winding stories: child to adult to father, Catholic to Buddhist to open-source mystic, believer to skeptic, seeker, teacher. With a punster's joy in wordplay, Remski spins a fantasia of ancient ritual and childhood prayer, premodern numerology and postmodern science that opens in unexpected directions-just as you think you've got it. Funnier (and sexier) than you'd expect, and more wise, read it in a single sitting, letting go into the strange oscillation of cosmic and mundane, and yes, birth and death, that pulses here." - Sean Feit

Studying Ayurveda: a Manual in Progress is a 12-module guide designed to support students in becoming proficient in Ayurvedic worldview and practice. It's a required text for all students of Matthew Remski's Ayurveda courses consisting of more than one day, and a recommended supplement to shorter courses as well. Those who are not enrolled in a course can also find these notes very helpful, but should be aware that the manual's content is enriched by in-person or online lecture presentations and discussion, slides and online quizzes. Notes are presented in bullet-point form. The modules are: 1. Ayurveda Basics 2. Elements, Gunas, Samkhya Correlations 3. The Dhatus/Doshas as Psychosomatic Forces 4. How the Dhatus Influence Individual Identity 5. Agni, the Root of Digestion 6. Ayurvedic Diet 7. Tissues, Wastes, and Essential Vitality 8. The Five Functions of Prana 9. Optimizing the Breath 10. Daily Routine 11. Cleansing-Daily, Seasonal, Lifetime 12. The Life Cycle The manual includes the full bibliography of the rich sources that have heavily influenced this material: works by Frawley, Johari, Kacera, Lad, Pole, Tiwari, Ranade, Sharma, Svoboda, Verma, and dozens of other practitioners and scholars. Also included are edited versions of three ground-breaking essays from 2013-2014: "Recovering the Era of Water Medicine" "Ayurveda Is a Political Practice, Part one: Economic justice" "Ayurveda and the Accusation of Pseudoscience" Past students of Matthew's trainings and seminars have said the following: Matthew Remski's approach to Ayurveda is simultaneously pragmatic, poetic, reverent, critical, and honestly quite brave. He is willing to question dogma while cherishing the spirit of Ayurvedic inquiry, and his teaching emboldens me to do the same. - Nick Beem E-RYT500, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist & Group Facilitator From our first online course, I knew I had found a teacher worth "tuning in" to. Matthew Remski's online course is perfect if you'd like to move beyond the surface and eradicate confusion. While I have studied with Ayurvedic physicians and consultants over the years, Matthew Remski expresses a fresh voice on ancient wisdom. His teaching is clear, accessible, and approachable for modern day body/minds. If you are considering an online course, I highly recommend that you block the time and participate "live" rather than review the recording later. Be prepared to be challenged and fully dive into the homework and quizzes. Your presence, focused attention, and skillfully applied effort will be rewarded with a fuller appreciation and understanding of Ayurveda. The best outcome will be your ease of application of Ayurveda's wisdom in your daily life. - Lisa Long E-RYT 500 In a world that too often emphasizes busy work schedules, imbalance and disconnection, I found that Everyday Nectar offered concrete and practical ways to retune my awareness towards health and wholeness. I think it would be impossible to be unchanged by the course learning. There are opportunities to make the simple adjustments in your day-to-day experience that may have significant health benefits. Matthew is a caring, knowledgable teacher that creates space for a warm, nourishing inquiry into how ayurveda can positively support our human experience. - Kelly Anderson, MD Matthew brings a rare intelligence and poetic sensibility to his teaching of Ayurveda. Always attentive to modern applications and contemporary context, his classes encompass a riveting dialogue between different times, places and ways of knowing. He makes Ayurveda feel at once intuitive and familiar, while at the same time, offering it as a way think about and experience the the world in radical new ways. - Katherine Friesen