Parvati Devi
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Yoga, Spiritual Growth, Meditation, Creativity Expert
Parvati Devi Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Yoga, Spiritual Growth, Meditation, Creativity, Personal Growth
- Career Focus
- Musician, Yogini, Author, Activist
- Affiliation
- Parvati.org
Parvati’s creative work rests on the solid foundation of her dedicated meditation and yoga practices. She is the co-founder of the Active Integration Holistic Education program at the University of Toronto and founder of YEM: Yoga as Energy Medicine, a gentle yet deeply powerful form of yoga that blends chi-energy work with yoga poses.
Parvati’s debut self-help book "Confessions from Your Awakened Self" is a candid, compassionate and inspiring account of her near death experience and steps to living an authentic spiritual life.
As an activist, Parvati became the most northern musical performer when she performed at the North Pole to raise awareness of the melting polar ice. She is the co-founder of the not-for-profit Parvati.org dedicated to realizing MAPS: the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary.
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How to Be at Home in the Moment
I have been quite nomadic for most of my adult life—traveled extensively, seen the world, and enjoyed many varied cultures. I have learned to find home wherever I may be. At first, home was literally my backpack in which I carried my necessities. But I have learned to put my pack down now and lessen the load I carry. Who is “doing” anyway? As my spiritual teacher says, when you are on a traveling train, why still hold onto your luggage? The train is my life, and I am carried by Life, supported by all that is. So I let go. I surrender to what is. I serve what is right in front of me.
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How to Discover the Courage to Be Fiercely You
One of the pivotal quotes that shaped my life growing up was from one of my favorite musical icons, David Bowie: “The worst trick God can play is to make you an artist, but a mediocre one.” Internalizing my version of his message, my motto became through high school and university that I would rather be an A or an F student than a C student.
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How to Find Peace in a Polarized World
I get a snapshot of world events from the things I experience as I move through each day: captions in newspapers and on magazine stands, conversations on Facebook, clips on the radio or on YouTube, and through the atmospheric vibratio I touch in my daily meditation practice. I know that there have been clouds of dissension in the ethers for some time. I can see them in the media and sense them in the unseen. Over the past decade, our world has been struggling with increased local and global unrest as well as greater natural disasters.
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How to Make Real Change In Your Life
Even though we may say we want change, many of us are actually afraid of it at a deep level. Though we may outwardly express a hope for something new, inwardly we may be in resistance. Holding on to old patterns in our hearts, minds and actions, we find ourselves too often in the same situations over and over again, without the transformation we had anticipated.
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