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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the edge. Today my guest is Shiva Ray. Shiva teaches the Niazza Flow

yoga worldwide. She is a Yogini Firekeeper, sacred activist, global adventurer, and leading innovator in the evolution of

Prana Flow Yoga, transformational Vinaso Flow, integrating the tantric Bacti roots of yoga,

Krishna Macharya's teachings,

and a universal quantum approach to the body.

She has studied many forms of yoga and dance in India, Africa, Nepal, Jamaica, and Bali.

With Sounds True, Shiva has created many DVDs and audio programs and has released a new book called Tending the Heart Fire,

living in flow with the pulse of life where she helps the reader reconnect with the heart fire at the center of their being,

which synchronizes with the pulse of the Earth itself.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Sheva and I spoke about the power of gazing at a natural fire.

And what it means to be a fire keeper when the fire that you're keeping is the flame of your very own

heart. We also talked about the importance of tuning to the natural cycles of the sun and the phases of the moon and how to do this

even in the midst of a busy contemporary life. And finally, Shiva offered us simple practices we can do on the spot to tend to the fire of the heart.

Here's my conversation with Shiva Ray. Sheva, you begin your new book, Tending The Heart Fire, living in flow with the pulse of life,

with a few key metaphors for our human heart and I want to start there in talking about a

couple of these key metaphors and one is you compare our human heart to a fire and I wonder if you can explain that. How is our heart

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