Actually I’m a yoga teacher and a healer.
I live with my family in the hills of Eastern Slovenia, although I’m actually from London originally.
My wife (also a yogi) and i run a center here where we do year-round yoga and healing retreats. I also write.
I look forward to contributing to the forums here regularly, and hope I can be of some assistance…
With love
Ben
Hi Ben,
Very warm Welcome to the forum & Nice to have you here.
And good to see you’ve got a sense of humour.
Ben,
welcome to the forum, would love to read what you can share with this community. 
Hello Ben,
welcome to the neighborhood.
gordon
Hi Ben,
A good tip to get more creative with your yoga routines is to line up shots of tequila on your mat (under the guidance of an acknowledged expert, of course) ,down them really quickly, usually before cobra pose and certainly right before deep savasana. Then absorb the sutras.
This is a panacea for all ills( although it’s not mentioned directly in the vedas)…yeah right
ho-ho-ho
[QUOTE=Quetzalcoatl;30668]Hello,
here’s another funny post. Have a good ho-ho-ho.[/QUOTE]
Someone experiences heart issues and you find humor in that?
not cool
[QUOTE=Quetzalcoatl;30682]Hi Lencho…,
exactly.[/QUOTE]
Hi Que,
I am the king of Iron, I should have caught that.
Sincerely,
Lencho…
Thanks for the warm welcomes.
Love, Ben
I hope none of you were offended by the Joke Title comment. If you were, rest assured that everything can be made fun of - and the things which we sometimes think of as ‘taboo’, which definitely includes alcoholism, heart attacks, cancer, etc, should be the more joked about. By joking about them we make them less scary, wouldn’t you agree?
And fear is often what causes them! So let’s make fun
good attitude!
Hello benralston,
I hope none of you were offended by the Joke Title comment.
me too.
If you were, rest assured that everything can be made fun of
Sure it can be made. You can make jokes about massgassings at Auschwitz or the raping of children, the animals dying due to the current oil-catastrophe, wars, awfull deseases - anything. Can be done, I rest assured.
- and the things which we sometimes think of as ‘taboo’, which definitely includes alcoholism, heart attacks, cancer, etc, should be the more joked about. By joking about them we make them less scary, wouldn’t you agree?
Never. What you do by joking about them is making them less obvious. In the case of alcoholism, with your funny joke you - at best - divert the attention from the suffering caused by it. It’s equal to looking away and it’s called ignorance and it’s not cool. I’m quite sure that you would keep your jokes to yourself if you had someone who is in pain in front of you. Well, at least I hope you would.
Also, there are things in the world people should be afraid of. Fear is not evil, it is, just like pain, a guide. If people were not afraid of anything they’d become incautious and careless. If, for example, I wasn’t afraid that my son get’s hurt, he probably would already be dead.
And fear is often what causes them! So let’s make fun
Your logic is insuffcient. In the case of alcoholism, it is not fear of alcoholism that leads to alcoholism. So if you would want to decrease the fear that causes alcoholism and thereby the chance of people becoming alcoholics, it is an inapproriate method to trivialize alcholism by making fun of it. According to your logic, you should make fun of the cause. But I still doubt that’d work.
It’s cool and healthy to make jokes and be funny. For example is it a great practice to bring clowns to children who are in hospitals because they have cancer. Lighten up their life. It’d be tasteless, though, to make fun of their bald heads, their pain or stuff alike.
You don’t agree?
A marine biologist friend of mine went to the Amazon to work. He ended up living with the tribe there for several years…
On his first day in the jungle, the tribe he was staying with picked him up and they were journeying deep into the forest in canoes.
As they passed under a tree, the tribesman rowing at the back of the canoe knocked a branch above his head, and a nest of wasps fell on him. He was so badly attacked by the wasps that his whole body was swollen - his face was unrecognisable.
Said friend was - in our typical Western way, very afraid; very SERIOUS; very worried…
All the tribespeople laughed and laughed! They laughed with all their hearts and continued laughing until they came to the village, where the wasp sting victim’s life was narrowly saved.
Later my friend asked one of the other people from the boats how they could laugh at seeing such a terrible thing.
He replied:
[I]“If we had all reacted as you did, he would certainly have died.”[/I]
There is fear. There is love.
I chose love every time.
With love
Ben
Welcome to the forum, Ben. Thank you for introducing yourself to us and thank you too for sharing your chakra article here. I am glad you are here!
Nichole
Thank you Nichole, I’m glad too!
Welcome to the forum!
Hi Slavic Brother! Good to have you here! I’m originally from Ukraine!