When it comes to health, digestion is where the process all begins. If there is anything off-balance, it can affect not only how we feel before, during or after we eat, but also throughout the entire day (and beyond). Balance is affected both by the food we eat and by how we feel. Our digestive [...]
From the perspective of Ayurveda, seasonal junctures can be times of vulnerabilities. Throughout the hot pitta summer, heat has been constantly building. Then in the fall, the fire of summer meets the wind of the vata fall season. This is a time when paying attention to our digestion and our vitality are both [...]
Meeting The Man Behind The Shadow I USUALLY CONSIDER MYSELF to be conscious of what is going on around me, but when I entered a Los Angeles hotel room to interview Zhander Remete, the founder of Shadow Yoga, he seemed to appear out of nowhere, despite being in plain view. As his steady [...]
Accessible Yoga in West Adams District Yoga lovers can add DHARMA MITTRA YOGA LA to their weekly studio rotation. Named after Sri Dharma Mittra, who is frequently referred to as the “Teacher’s Teacher” and “The Rock of Yoga,” the studio shares Dharma Mittra’s teachings through classical Yoga practice. The sequences, “Shiva Namaskara Vinyasas” are taught [...]
One Man’s Amazing Escape From Tibet As a child growing up in a remote village in the mountainous region of Kham, Tibet, Tsewang Dhondup loved to listen to the heroic fables recounted by the local elders. Now Tsewang’s own story is the stuff of legend and may end up marveled at by generations [...]
Practice Pages: Yoga Therapy Observing Habits and Affecting Change Through Conscious Direction THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE provides teachings to allow people to listen to the body’s habits in movement and posture and reorganizing our internal coordination. Like yogis entering a pose with specific actions such as anchoring the legs, Alexander students watch themselves stand, sit, [...]
Ayurveda has been practiced in the US for only about 30 years, yet it is one of the systems of medicine native to India and is thousands of years old. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com. Q: What are some of the best ways to promote ojas (strength and vitality) [...]
Yoga’s Role In Dr. David Cumes’ Journey From Surgeon To Sangoma “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THIS IS CRAZY. I’m a surgeon!” Dr. David Cumes recalled saying to himself while sitting in an African hut facing what could be considered off-putting rite-of-passage rituals, like sacrificing chickens and shaking, sweating and screaming while being possessed. [...]
Looking To The Experts For Answers To Tough Questions On May 16-17, groups of Angelenos took up the challenge to plant 100 herbal gardens and create a new future for food in Southern California: gardensofgratitude.com HOPE AND CHANGE ARE TWO WORDS that have triumphantly found their way back into our culture. Post November four, [...]
Embracing Community Through Contact IS IT POSSIBLE FOR LOVERS, FAMILIES and entire communities to experience the same luminous and peaceful transcendence that yogis and contemplatives enjoy in deep meditation? The electroencephalograph (brain wave) literature informs us that the coherent EEG patterns of meditators are the same as those of breast-feeding infants when tenderly cradled by [...]