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Culver City, California
Expertise
Zen Wisdom
Quote
“In our Yoga practice, the act of focusing is an exact science! Together, our conscious, rhythmic breath patterns, combined with a drishti, opens a gateway to a higher state of calm-alertness.”
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Books
Dhanpal-Donna Quesada
Dhanpal-Donna Quesada teaches eastern spiritual philosophy at Santa Monica College and Kundalini Yoga at the renowned Yoga West, in Los Angeles. She is an author, healer and meditation guide. Her book, Buddha in the Classroom; Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers, was released by Skyhorse Publications, in 2011. Now a classic, it is scheduled for re-release in 2015, under its new title, The Inspired Teacher; Zen Advice for the Happy Teacher. Her audio CDs of guided meditations and positive affirmations feature a variety of meditation styles and reflect the way she begins all of her classes, whether teaching Yoga or eastern philosophy. Quesada has also received formal training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. She lives with her family and her beloved terrier, Marcel, in Culver City, California.
Articles and Posts
- Awaken Interviews Guru Meher Khalsa - Men And Women Alike Are Trying To Re-Embrace The Feminine
views: 309Donna Quesada: Exactly. And so, this brings me to another question that we like to ask here to those we interview. Is there an imbalance globally, of feminine versus masculine energies and what is the right approach to making the balance [...]
- Awaken Interviews Guru Meher Khalsa - Spiritual By-Passing, And Not Willing To Face The Shadow
views: 379Donna Quesada: Interesting, so the default, or “factory setting”is toward the negative, fearful emotions… Guru Meher Khalsa: That’s right, so…but,we don’t like those, who wants to live that way? It’s great that we’ve developed a way that we can do [...]
- Awaken Interviews Guru Meher Khalsa- In Yoga, We Scarcely Know The Upper Limit Of Awakening
views: 458Donna Quesada: Guru Meher, I’d like to start out by thanking you for your time. I’m certainly delighted to spend this time with you and I know that our listeners will benefit from having you share your insights with us. [...]
- Awaken Interviews Gangaji - Find Where You Love, Find Where Love Is Awakened
views: 457Donna Quesada: So much of spiritual practice is about dropping the searching, and by extension, the attachments that we think we need. The things we think we need to present about ourselves or the things we think we need to [...]
- Awaken Interviews Gangaji - Who Am I? Well What Is Always Here?
views: 670DONNA QUESADA: So it’s a kind of a spaciousness, a distance to where you’re able to see all as passing clouds… GANGAJI: You know, I could even say that it’s more an intimacy. So, it’s so great, this is a [...]
Videos
Awaken Interviews Dr. Steve Taylor - The Collective Awakening Is Occurringviews: 2212
Awaken Interviews Robert Thurman - His Spiritual Questviews: 4181
Awaken Interviews Zen Buddhist Priest Karen Maezen Miller Part IIIviews: 4306
Awaken Interviews Joan Borysenko Ph.D. - Living More From Your Higher Selfviews: 1558
Awaken Interviews Joan Borysenko Ph.D. -God Is A Mysteryviews: 1545
Awaken Interviews Kundalini Yoga Master Guru Singh Part IIviews: 1840
Quotes
- “When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.”
- “When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.”
- “The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.”
- “Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.”
- “What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.”
- “You don't think your way back to joy; you open to it.”
- “Each situation is a blossom to be picked with a curious spirit.”
- “To see change is at the same time to allow change.”
- “Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into unknown territory together, creating something new each time by remaining in a state of undivided presence.”
- "Don’t “personalize” the situation or the other person’s actions, since, those actions were never about you, anyway, they were always about the other—betraying their own state of consciousness."
- "Your inner glow and light, which radiates outward and is felt by all who come near you, will affect the material context in ways that others are unable to understand. It’s like a secret."
- "When we live from the heart, we are dwelling in God. And God doesn’t take things personally or get involved in drama. God doesn’t compare, judge, get wrecked by anxiety and unfulfilled expectations and certainly has nothing to prove and no sense of lack."