Practice Pages: Meditation This is the third installment in an ongoing column focused on meditation practices in different traditions. I am often asked about what Zen can teach us about the intimate personal relationships that play such an important role in all our lives. When our walls are down, we are more in touch with [...]
Reema: Truth Love Creation Nutone Records Reema Datta is a beautiful devotee who embraces many Vedic traditions and techniques and puts her innate abilities into a collection of nine chants. When it comes to Yoga, Reema is no amateur. She first learned mantra (sacred syllable), Ayurvedic cooking, pranayama (breath techniques) and asana [...]
The Tao of Fertility By Daoshing Ni, DOM, LAc, PhD and Dana Herko Collins, 2008 Reviewed by Natalie D-Napoleon Daoshing Ni (better known as Dr. Dao) draws on his ancestral experience as a healer (belonging to seventy-four generations of masters) and his skill as an acupuncturist to present a holistic approach to conception [...]
The Essential Low Back Program: Relieve Pain and Restore Health Robin Rothenberg Pacific Institute Yoga Therapy Reviewed by Felicia M. Tomasko, RN What does it mean for a therapeutic Yoga CD set to state that its effects are clinically proven? For Rothenberg’s Essential Low Back Program, the endorsement refers to Karen Sherman’s much-lauded [...]
For both men and women, normal, healthy sexual function is a sometimes mysterious intertwining of physical, emotional and psychological interplay. Take for example the conflict in time schedule between a woman’s monthly ovulation cycle and the average man’s semen cycle of four to eight times a month. It would seem to be a minor miracle [...]
My platform has always been one of Mindfulness and raising awareness on a subtle level…the type of awareness that if we all made small changes to our daily routine we could generate massive changes. Living in a city, we become accustomed to trash lining the streets. Taking a quick look around, it is [...]
Recyclemania is a currently running national competition with 514 colleges and universities participating. Forty institutions in California are registered (the full list is found on the website). The goal of Recyclemania is to increase awareness and participation in diverting materials from landfills and instead using them as raw materials to make other products. This saves [...]
Ayurveda has been practiced in the U.S. 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: I was on birth control for six years (beginning at age fifteen). When [...]
Runners, Well ALL Athletes, Should Do Yoga I feel like I’m doing the Late Show with David Letterman, he’s always doing “The Top 10 Reasons” for something or other. (If only I could be as funny.) Here are some of the easy, commonsense reasons, why any athlete should be doing yoga. In fact, I give [...]
Help Close The Los Angeles Zoo Elephant Exhibit - And Rescue Lone Elephant Billy! The Los Angeles Zoo has a tragic record with elephants. Since 1975, 13 elephants held there have died; more than half did not live to see age 20. Elephants have a natural lifespan of 65-70 years. Despite this fact, the L.A. [...]