First printed Australian Yoga Life and put the www.ayl.com.au Nourishing the soul Sitting on a beach in Sri Lanka at the beginning of his world tour earlier this year, Food For Life (FFL) Global director Paul Rodney Turner was quietly reflecting on his life journey....
Author: Paul Rodney Turner
Saint Francis of Assisi and Compassion for Animals
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
October 20, 2013
Saint Francis of Assisi Excerpt from: FOOD YOGA – Nourishing Body, Mind & Soul A new book by Paul Rodney Turner, the Food Yogi There are basically two distinct schools of Christian thought: The Aristotelian-Thomistic school and the Augustinian-Franciscan school. The Aristotelian-Thomistic school teaches that animals are here...
Achieving Mind-Body Harmony in Billiards
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
October 19, 2013
Excerpt from The YOGA of POOL – Secrets to Becoming a Champion in Billiards and in Life (by Paul Turner) Mind management allows us to influence physical reality. As beings of both gross and subtle energy, akin to yin and yang, our mind often responds to...
What doesn’t kill you — will make you strong I console myself, as I write this song… A song of the heart — hardened over time, That longs for loving — through romantic rhyme… And the sweetness of affection, on a Winter’s morn, And the...
Dear Jagannath Priya, devi dasi you are, A lover of animals, like a benediction star, And those you allow to come into your world, You nurture and love them, like an oyster does a pearl. O’ how lucky I am to, have met you this...
A Tribute to Rodney John Turner
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
August 14, 2013
Fairfax, Virginia USA A eulogy to my father, Rodney John Turner, on the occasion of his funeral, May 15, 2001 (first time published) My dear family and friends, First, I would sincerely like to thank you all for coming today to pay your last respects to...
That brief moment when the whole world seems to stand still – that temporary inaction while we focus on the future and prepare to commit our next move – is called a pause. Why do we need this when playing billiards? Simply because, when we pause,...
Original Title: Keeping it real – while still seeking spiritual emancipation.
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
August 7, 2013
I gave Srimad Bhagavatam class today in the Hare Krishna temple in Riga, Latvia , on this verse (http://vedabase.net/sb/3/20/6/ ). Initially, I felt unqualified and somewhat perplexed. I mean, I am not a Vedic scholar, nor a self-realised soul in any sense, and yet this...
The inside story of Food for Life
posted by: Paul Rodney Turner
June 23, 2013
Sunday Talk at the Radha Gopinath Temple in Chowpatti, Mumbai, India. On June 16, 2013 I was asked to give the Sunday lecture to the congregation at the famous Radha Gopinatha temple in Mumbai, India. My talk was an introduction to food yoga, a solution...
There’s a divine maiden called Janaki, aka, Julianne — the spunky, who leaves trails of gold dust in her wake, for if you ever get to meet her, you’ll praise her like the geeta, and reminisce it like a hot-cross bun bake. Loyal and kind,...