True healing puts into order the body, mind and spirit with the past, present, and future. What kind of agent or method or formula or treatment can help to effect such sweeping, integrated healing? I offer for your consideration ayahuasca, a psychoactive potion indigenous to the Amazon rainforest, and the only combinatory vision-inducing agent in [...]
Spinning Innovator Johnny G Launches a New Fitness Paradigm with In-Trinity Photo by Tai Kerbs Trying out In-Trinity, a new fitness paradigm with innovator Johnny G Zen Chi is the name for the seated pose that is the position taken at both the beginning and the end of an In-Trinity session, as developed [...]
Gift & Wellness: Celebrating Mothers Day Mother’s Day Specials at Exhale Spa Sunday May 3 - Sunday, May 10 One way to nurture yourself, your mother, grandmother, daughter or anyone in your life is through a spa day. The Exhale Mind Body Spa locations in Los Angeles are offering spa treatment specials if you spa [...]
Yoga Therapy: The Continuum of Embodiment What does it mean to be embodied? And doesn’t yoga already take care of that? When we take a closer look, the answer might surprise us. Think of embodiment on a continuum. On one end we have exteroception, in the middle proprioception, and on the far end interoception. Each of [...]
Upcoming 2015 Retreats: hiking retreats in Ecuador, shamanic retreats in Peru, and yoga retreats in Yosemite Valley Compiled by Tiffany Palazzini Casa Verde Raw Yoga Hiking Retreat, Ecuador CASA VERDE RAW YOGA HIKING RETREAT CASA VERDE, ECUADOR. ONGOING RETREATS WENDYGREENYOGA.COM Travel to a personalized seven-night retreat to heal with Ashtanga Yoga, delicious [...]
Urban Beekeeping in LA is an important part of the Ecology of Saving Bees Images by Jeff Skeirik/Rawtographer It was 2006 when we first heard something really bad was happening to bees, yet no one could agree on what was causing their populations to decline so rapidly. By fortunate chance one thing did work in their [...]
The 10-day Awareness Film Festival opened not with a bang but with the type of awareness befitting a longtime meditator or Zen master on Thursday, September 11. The two feature films screened that night at the beautiful Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus were David Lynch’s Meditation, Creativity, Peace and Moving From Emptiness: The Life [...]