Pico Iyer's father was a longtime friend and colleague of the Dalai Lama and Iyer, himself, has been close to the Dalai Lama since childhood. They have traveled together extensively and his latest book, The Open Road, about the Dalai Lama, has just been released in paperback. Over the past year, with the Summer Olympics [...]
Practice Pages: Meditation We are at a crucial transition period on our planet Earth. We have grown in numbers, technology and interconnectedness. The result is that we affect each other. We affect each other more than we can even imagine; just as we affect the environment that has sustained us for millennia. The news is full [...]
Practice Pages: Yoga Therapy What is Yoga Therapy? by Felicia M. Tomasko, RN The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) sponsored their third annual Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR) in Los Angeles, March 5 - 8. The weekend featured a historic three-day meeting of the organization’s Council of Schools, where more than [...]
In Recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April a number of LA-based conscious companies are coming together to raise funds with yogitoes® founder Susan Nichols. Nichols is reaching out to the community with the intention of growing a small grassroots campaign into a global campaign, much as the PINK campaign has served for breast [...]
Community : News The nonprofit Hope for Paws is one of the compassionate organizations in the greater LA area who provides active rescue, kennel-free open space, medical care, and love to neglected, abused and homeless animals. Founders Audrey Spilker Hagar and Eldad Hagar have rescued hundreds of often ill or injured dogs, cats and [...]
New Film Looks For Answers to the Mystery of the Disappearing Honeybees and Searches For Solutions We can thank humble honeybees for the bounty we enjoy. From cucumbers to coconuts, almonds to apples, flax to fennel along with numerous other food, oil and fabric crops (including cotton), our lives and fates are intertwined with those [...]
Coloring Our Practice With A Green Hue Helps Us Become More Intimate With Our Environment Earth from Space Our beautiful world seems a bit rough around the edges these days, from pollution, crowding and despair. We may feel helpless in the face of the bad news regarding climate change, species extinctions, chemical poisoning [...]
Chant-4-Change Sets The Nation’s Capital Alight January 20, 2009. It was a day that will not soon be forgotten: Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Only one day earlier, on Martin Luther King, Jr Day, some four hundred yogis, yoginis, and those with a general taste for the [...]
Manifest Hope was involved in creating the now-famous HOPE with an image of Obama posters by artist Shepard Fairey, and together they developed the Manifest Hope show. They were looking for contemporary works of art related to the spirit of what Barack Obama represents for this country, so I created a portrait to [...]
Sitting Down With Tassajara Director David Zimmerman In September I traveled to Tasajara and spoke with David Zimmerman, one of the “Tassajara Five,” the four men and one woman who were instrumental in defending the monastery against the Basin Complex Fire. We sat and talked beneath a leafy tree in two yellow chairs [...]