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    Our Path to Enlightenment through Focus and Meditation. Samadhi and What That Means in a Modern World featuring Melissa Townsend

    enJuly 21, 2021
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    About this Episode

    Melissa Townsend is an Artist, Author, Psychic & Astrologer.

    Her paintings of the Yoga Sutras Book One and Book Two are available with translations and commentary, published in full-color, soft-bound books. She also features them in her meditation deck.

    She hosts a popular YouTube series with videos on Astrology and the Tarot

    In this episode we look at these universal questions through the lens of yoga philosophy and the path to Samadhi, a state of meditative consciousness and how this process of concentration and focus can be part of what we do in this very busy modern world.

    From Patanjali’s Eight Limbs, we discuss the last three -Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi.

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