by Celeste Yacoboni | Sep 4, 2014 | News
The Jivamukti Yoga School NYC, located at 841 Broadway 2nd floor, in New York, NY has announced that Celeste Yacoboni will be speaking on November 3, 2014. Here is the announcement: There are as many ways to pray as there are human beings. As Rumi has written, “There are one hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” Interspirituality is respect for all these ways, participation in the rituals of communion, and union with our divine essence in all forms and practices. Join spiritual director Celeste Yacoboni – who thinks of God as the Grid of Divinity that we are all part of – in an interspiritual communion/community experience as she shares from her new book How Do You Pray? and larger vision of creating a prayer field of unity that embraces humanity’s diversity. How Do You Pray? Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists & Other Lovers of Humanity. Sharon Gannon is a featured contributor. Click to register online. About the book: As we evolve, so do our prayers; as our prayers evolve, so do we. This is the evolution of illumination, the collective voice of the soul of the world. How Do You Pray? was born from a vision in which Celeste Yacoboni was told to ask the world, “How Do You Pray?” She reached out to leading spiritual, shamanic, scientific teachers, guides, and activists and asked for their response. Culled from those responses is an original and deeply personal collection of essays. Talking intimately and candidly about how they pray, these personalities encourage the reader to contemplate the intention of prayer in their own...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 31, 2014 | News
Celeste Yacoboni appeared in her first TV interview with Frank Mallicoat CBS KPIX 5 in San Francisco to discuss How Do You Pray?: Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists and Other Lovers of Humanity. Reviews of How Do You Pray? “If you want to learn how to be more creative, study Leonardo da Vinci or Thomas Edison. If you’d like to improve your cooking skill, watch Michael Symon or Cat Cora on “Iron Chef.” And if you want to enrich your inner life, immerse yourself in the beautiful examples of prayer from spiritual teachers, visionaries and thought leaders in this exquisite volume. How Do You Pray? offers creative inspiration and rich nourishment for all seekers.”–Michael J. Gelb, author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci and Innovate Like Edison “This is a book that many will be putting into their pockets and carrying with them to inspire them on a daily basis. This is a book that not only inspires, but reminds us of the inner connection that powers this world of reality. Celeste Yacoboni has planted a seed to awaken our memory! Let our hearts unify as we celebrate our diversity and the spiritual nature we walk with.”–Jyoti, Spiritual Director for the Center for Sacred Studies and Ambassador to the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers “Each humble seeker will discern the language of prayer, the language of the heart, in his or her own way, guided by the Love that interpenetrates all existence. Nonetheless, we are richly fed and inspired by the words and witness of others in their explorations and practice within...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 27, 2014 | News
The Fall 2014 issue of Parabola is titled “Spiritual Practice” and features excerpts from the How Do You Pray? book. From the editor: FOCUS | From the Editor Spiritual Practice, Volume 39, Number 3, Fall 2014 As children, my brother and I were taught to place our slippers far under our beds each night. Our parents hoped that when we reached for those slippers the next morning, we’d find ourselves in a kneeling position and would remember to say our morning prayers. Why is it that engagement with the higher, the sacred, the spiritual, requires practice? Call it the veil of Maya, sleep, original sin, monkey mind, or ego, there is something within us that blocks us from direct apprehension of the divine. We practice to allow this something to find its proper place, to make room within us for the sacred, and also to remember to go beyond apprehension to living the truth, practicing the truth. Spiritual practice is universal yet culturally specific and widely varied. Nearly all humans pray. Some kneel, some prostrate themselves, others bow or sit or stand, praying silently or aloud. We chant, we sit in meditation, we pursue sacred dance, we go to mass, we fast, we tithe, we undergo initiations, we go on pilgrimage, we do yoga, we perform sacrifices and acts of kindness, and much more. This Fall 2014 issue of Parabola explores the world of spiritual practice with the guidance of accomplished teachers and practitioners. Our interview is with Mirabai Starr, a bright new voice in interfaith studies who as a teen lived at the Lama Foundation, where she studied...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 21, 2014 | News
Mirabai Starr announced the How Do You Pray? Book in her newsletter, Unity in...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 20, 2014 | News
Celeste Yacoboni takes a moment during her busy book tour to share a story: We had a wonderful evening at East West Book Store, Mountain View on Tuesday for a How Do You Pray? book talk and signing. The next evening Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox who is a contributor to the book was there speaking about his new book “Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times”. Matthew quoted Meister Eckhart in How Do You Pray? “If the only prayer you say in your whole life is ‘ Thank You,’ that would...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 15, 2014 | News
The How Do You Pray book by Celeste Yacoboni has been featured by Bioneers.org as a Summer Read! How Do You Pray? Bioneers Founders Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel are featured in the newly released essay collection How Do You Pray? by Celeste Yacoboni. Theirs are two of 129 inspiring responses to the title question from religious leaders, spiritual guides, healers, activists and other lovers of...
