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December 11, 2018 0Comments

moxaLight: Acupuncture Without Needles

I’ve been an avid consumer of acupuncture for over a decade. As a software developer and pianist, I spend a lot of time at a keyboard using my wrists and arms. This causes tension that runs up my arms, and also around my shoulders and into my neck and back. I believe that regular acupuncture has helped keep me from developing severe tendonitis, or worse, carpal tunnel syndrome. I try to go twice a month, and I’ve advised friends to use it for their own muscular pain and tension. However, some p […]

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November 23, 2018 0Comments

Breaking up is hard to do…

Fortunately, I am currently in a nurturing and stable relationship with an amazing, caring, and beautiful soul. However, this hasn’t always been the case. I’ve had a few break-ups, and I can tell you from experience that severing the cord was not always easy. Especially if you are a loving and caring person, it can be hard to let go of someone with whom you once shared everything in your life. I always set intentions around my break-ups to cut loose my former lovers in a way that is for the grea […]

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September 3, 2018 0Comments

Open Source Meditation App Templates

Buid your own meditation apps with my templates on GitHub With the release of the Vipassana App, and in keeping with the spirit of the late SN Goenka to offer free services that helps others, I have made the code for these apps open source to the public (except for the audio files).Why is this helpful? It allows anyone to pull down a copy of my code, make a few changes to it, add your own images and audio, then create your own meditation apps! It requires a little bit of technical knowledge to c […]

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July 21, 2018 0Comments

How Yoga Improves Sleep Quality

​With the stress and responsibility of our modern lives, many people are suffering from insomnia. If you’re not suffering from insomnia, you may wake up periodically throughout the night. You may not make it to the deep resting stages that are essential to keeping you mentally and physically healthy. Yoga has many benefits and one of them has been proven to improve sleep quality.A new study has said that yoga can help improve sleep for people who can’t sleep at night. So how d […]

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March 24, 2018 0Comments

Vipassana Android App Released!

To complete the trifecta, the android version of the Vipassana App has been released to production on the Google Play Store! It was quite a journey to practice this meditation twice daily for a year after an intense 10-day retreat to learn it. I had a great time practicing this type of meditation as well as making the app. I even mentored a junior developer who is learning Java/Android development in the process. It was a fun ride, and I noticed many changes in myself over the past year. With t […]

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March 7, 2018 0Comments

Vipassana iOS app released!

Today, we have released the Vipassana app to the iOS store.In this meditation app, we explore the technique of body sensation awareness made popular by the Theravada Buddhists. The app makes it easy for beginners to learn this ancient practice.Start with the breath… a simple shamatha practice to focus on your breathingContinue with the sensations of breath… two anapana breath meditations which will sharpen the mindWitness your body’s surface sensations… four different vipassana medit […]

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February 20, 2018 0Comments

Vipassana mp3 Album Released!

The latest album from Guided Meditation Treks is out on CDBaby in mp3 format! It will be available on iTunes, spotify, and other streaming providers in the coming weeks. Not to mention, the iOS and android apps for this album are almost complete and ready for release on their respective app stores. You can learn more about the album at the Vipassana page, purchase it on CDBaby, or wait a bit for it to be released in the iOS and Android app stores in the coming weeks. There will be another post […]

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January 27, 2018 0Comments

Acupuncture, Chiropractor, Rolfing, Oh my!

Photo by Samuel Zeller Through my personal experience, I have become an advocate for bodywork as a means to long term wellness. As a hardcore software developer and writer,  I have been using acupuncture to manage inflammation in my arms and wrists for over a decade, and there’s nothing like it to keep my energy from getting blocked in certain areas. In addition, my acupuncturists have always been trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, offering some interesting treatments (can I get a sho […]

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