DJ Mix Playlist

Ever So Lonely : Eyes : Ocean 3:25 Weaving My Ancestors' Voices Sheila Chandra

Finally Moving 4:38 Taking Up Your Precious Time Pretty Lights

Can't Stop Me Now 4:44 Passing By Behind Your Eyes Pretty Lights

Extreme Ways 3:31 Go - The Very Best Of Moby Moby

Beautiful 3:13 Morgans Hotel Group (Disc 1) (Compil... Moby

Let the Sunshine In (Las Salinas Remix) 3:34 From Beach House to Chill Out (50 Sel... United Colors of House

Sweet Home Alabama 3:59 Sweet Home Alabama B.A.M.A.

Room For Happiness (feat. Skylar Grey) 4:40 Fire & Ice Kaskade

Reckoner 4:50 In Rainbows Radiohead

Sun Is Shining (Sand In My Shoe Mix) 6:13 Island Life - Ibiza Groove and Chillout ... Bob Marley Vs. Funkstar De Luxe

Slow And Steady 5:02 My Head Is An Animal Of Monsters And Men

Unbound 5:20 In the Glow Donna De Lory

Live Like You're Dying 3:49 Lenka Lenka

Lovers Rock 4:13 Lovers Rock Sade

18 4:29 18 & 18 B-Sides Moby

Good For Me 5:41 Tri-State Above & Beyond

Stormy 3:41 The Meters The Meters

Silence 4:12 Light (Bonus Track Version) Matisyahu

Grace 5:24 Songs 1993-1998 Moby

Grooves for Change Playlist

Peace 4:22 Let Mother Earth Speak Dennis Banks & Kitaro

Biko 4:47 Songs Around the World (Audio/Video ... Playing for Change

Ain't No Reason 3:40 So Much More (Special Edition) Brett Dennen

Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit... 3:25 Day Dawns Melissa James

Gone Going 3:14 Monkey Business The Black Eyed Peas

Positivity 5:07 A Time to Love Stevie Wonder

Euphoria or Everyone On Earth Is So B... 3:43 Game Preserve Bart Davenport

Where Is the Love? 4:33 Elephunk The Black Eyed Peas & Justin Timberlake

River Of Dreams (With Bill Champlin) 5:29 Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends Ladysmith Black Mambazo

People Get Ready (Acapella) 3:09 Here and Now - The Best of Human Na... Human Nature

Diamond In Your Mind 4:25 Don't Give Up On Me Solomon Burke

Jabulani ''Rejoice'' (With The English C... 3:34 Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Free at Last (Reprise) (Album Version ... 4:12 The Best of G. Love and Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce

Namasté 4:01 Check Your Head Beastie Boys

Stormy 3:41 The Meters The Meters

Society 3:59 Society Jerry Hannan

Waiting to Be 3:23 Spirit Touches Ground Josh Clayton-Felt

If Only 4:24 Distance and Time Fink

Hope 7:21 Based On a True Story Fat Freddy's Drop

With This Love (Choir) 3:21 Passion: Music for the Last Temptation... Peter Gabriel

Playlist Reggae Funk

Over the Rainbow 3:08 Emotion & Commotion Jeff Beck

I Wanna Dance With Somebody 2:34 14 The Side Project

Shine Your Light 5:28 Ladder 49 Robbie Robertson

Biko 4:47 Songs Around the World (Audio/Video ... Playing for Change

Gimme Three Steps 3:33 Under the Influence Disco Biscuits

Put a Little Love in Your Heart 2:47 A Little Love Renee & Jeremy

Peace Train 3:50 Child of a King Luciano

Have We Lost Our Dream? 4:43 The Beat of Love Trilok Gurtu

Superstition (Single Version) 4:13 Soul Train 25th Anniversary Hall of Fame Stevie Wonder

Version (Instrumental) 4:14 iLove Riddim Selection Teka

Dance Me to the End of Love (Bonus T... 3:05 Barton Hollow The Civil Wars

Let Her Go 4:13 All the Little Lights [Explicit] [+digital bo... passEnger

Right On Time (feat. Marc Cohn) 4:02 Traveler Jerry Douglas

Sun Is Shining (Sand In My Shoe Mix) 6:13 Island Life - Ibiza Groove and Chillout ... Bob Marley Vs. Funkstar De Luxe

All My Days 4:57 Time Without Consequence Alexi Murdoch

Shine 7:46 Time Without Consequence Alexi Murdoch

Everyone I Know (Bonus Track) 4:33 City of Black & White (Bonus Track Ver... Mat Kearney

So Much Magnificence 7:54 Songs for The Inner Lover Miten & Deva Premal

Dance of the Gray Whales 2:51 Pines A Fine Frenzy

The Calling

Early I awake to listen.

Before the noises of the day have their say,

The Great Spirit has His; the Divine Mother has Hers.

Always the inaudible voice comes through,

Before the sun takes its flight into the morning sky.

Some days I seem to wait longer than other days.

But always I know, if I'm patient and persistent

I'll catch a glimpse of the dawn before the dawn, 

A new view of what's real - even slightly more than I saw yesterday.

Then and only then do I know my work is done, 

the connection made,

I'm dialed in to the infinite One, orchestrator of all.

Now I can move with guided action, equilibrium, and poise.

I take the first step, then the next, and another.

Still listening to the voice beneath the sounds,

The calling that has been forever calling to me,

Before the sun was the sun or the moon, the moon.

Wait. Listen. I think it's calling you too.

Reggae Fusion Playlist

Here's the Reggae Fusion Playlist from this morning's class at 
Agoura Power of Yoga...

Naked 4:17 Rise Anoushka Shankar

In the Middle 4:04 Acoustic (iTunes Exclusive) - EP Mat Kearney

It Takes Love 3:20 Edie Brickell (Amazon MP3 Exclusive) Edie Brickell

Piece Of My Heart (feat. Marsha) 4:17 The Best Of Shaggy Shaggy

Jamaican In New York 4:28 A Reggae Tribute To The Police Shinehead

Green Lights 2:56 Good Things Aloe Blacc

One Day 3:28 Light (Bonus Track Version) Matisyahu

Tamatant Tilay / Exodus (feat. Tinariwe... 4:45 The Imagine Project Herbie Hancock, Tinariwen, K'naan & Los Lobos

Fly Like an Eagle 4:14 Seal: Best 1991-2004 (Deluxe Version) Seal

Let It Go 2:47 Underwater Joshua Radin

Hari Om (You are the Love) 5:57 Nada Bhakti: The Sound of Devotion, V... The Bhakti House Band

Extreme Ways 3:31 Go - The Very Best Of Moby Moby

With A Little Help From My Friends 4:13 Reggae Summer Ellis Island

Free at Last (Reprise) (Album Version ... 4:12 The Best of G. Love and Special Sauce G. Love & Special Sauce

Walk Through the Walls 5:43 Love Is King Love Is Queen Avasa & Matty Love

Love Is My Religion (Acoustic) 3:52 Love Is My Religion (Bonus Track Versi... Ziggy Marley

Landslide 3:10 Landslide/ The Only Living Boy in New ... Sin Fang

Te Amo 3:43 Everything Everytime Everywhere Trevor Hall

Glory Box 2:40 Deeper Than Gravity - EP Ben Taylor

Lotus Heart 9:05 DownTemple Dub: Waves Desert Dwellers

The Vacuum Cleaner Effect

Prince Sultan (pictured here) is one cool cat. Very few things ruffle his fluff. There is one thing though that sends him into a frantic search for safety – the evil, loud, horrible, giant, obnoxious VACUUM CLEANER!!  After all these years, he still races for his favorite hiding spot under the bed at even hearing my hand touch the handle. From my vantage point of intelligence, it’s easy to see how silly this is; how he has nothing to be afraid of; and doesn’t he know this by now?! I mean never once has the vacuum cleaner harmed him. He’s always survived unscathed. One day as I was observing this phenomenon which I now think of as the vacuum cleaner effect, a metaphor revealed itself. I began to see that I have a lot of vacuum cleaners too – things that show up repeatedly and cause the same reaction every time – sparking fearful modes of thinking – even panic, survival mode, and sending me running for safety under my proverbial bed.  Looking back I can see I’ve always made it through these things unharmed and even much stronger and more free because of them. So when will I learn to go through potentially triggering situations with grace and courage, without having to go into all the drama? My fanatic feline has taught me that even while I’m scurrying around in my maze of fear, there is even right then a higher intelligence that sees everything clearly, knows there is nothing to fear, understanding clearly that all is well.  If I find access to that intelligence and submit to it, then I don’t have to blindly find my way to the other side of the maze, knocking my head against walls along the way.  I can avoid the maze altogether. How awesome is that! I’m sure I will encounter many more vacuum cleaners along my path, but instead of allowing them to evoke the vacuum cleaner effect, I can let this lesson from super furry friend be a gateway into finding my freedom sooner than later. I hope you will too!

Alison's 6 ingredients for a happy life...

1. loving and authentic relationships

2. easy access to nature


3. a body that gives me the freedom to skip or do a cartwheel when I want to


4. good food and the moderation to eat only what I need of it


5. interaction with people, places, and studies that expand my spiritual development


6. avenues of service that make the world a better place