Creating An Organic Laboratory In The Valley Behind Room 28 of Kester Avenue Elementary School in Sherman Oaks, California the Ms. Anita Avalos’ kindergarten class have been becoming kinder-gardeners. The students, along with parents, teachers, and Urban Organic Gardener Michael Lieberman, have been planting the public school’s first organic vegetable garden. Ms. Avalos, [...]
MC: You don’t like to speak publicly. You like to stay home and write and cut films. Why are you here? DL: What brought me here? I think it was last year that it suddenly dawned on me that the David Lynch Weekend was an annual event. The Third Annual David Lynch Weekend, Exploring the [...]
A fitness routine based on aesthetics feeds your ego, not your spirit. By increasing your ego, you actually become more vulnerable, more susceptible to the everyday occurrences that are out of your control. By feeding your ego, you ignore what you truly need in order to create something your ego desires. Consequently, you end up [...]
Environmental education in our nation’s K-12 schools is on the rise with many states leading the way in providing support, training and curriculum. In California, the Education and Environment Initiative (EEI) was established in 2003 to encourage and provide support to teachers and schools to increase environmental literacy by making environmental education an integral part [...]
Dadi Janki From The Brahma Kumaris Visits Los Angeles On Friday, June 11, Dadi Janki, the administrative head of Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization, visited Los Angeles to share her wisdom and spiritual experience to the eagerly awaiting group of approximately 500 people who gathered at the Jain Center, in Buena Park [...]
Sada Sat Kaur has been putting out her melodic chants for many years and her music is seasoned like the light moving into the seeds of the heart. Mantra Masala is Kaur’s latest Spirit Voyage release and it will bring joy to her dedicated followers and newcomers. Kaur is one of the best in the [...]
A Selection Of New Books For Parents The dance of family relationships can be very delicate. As a relatively recent parent I am always looking for new ways to educate myself on the parent-child relationship, and how to best support the growth of my child in all aspects of life. Reading the following three books [...]
After you’ve twisted, lunged, lengthened and aligned, focused, prepared, repaired and reset, you must get off the mat. The notion of bringing a Yoga practice to the rest of your daily life (the part that takes place between classes) can improve personal relationships, success at work – and – your shoe rack through improving your [...]
Yoga Is Life-Changing For Survivors Of Domestic Violence From businessman/entrepreneur to filmmaker/Yogi, Rich Tola’s life definitely had its twists and turns. Five years ago, he was living in New York, working on Wall Street and dreaming of a life change. He had tried Yoga, failed to connect with the practice, but kept reading about it. [...]
Some once-in-a-lifetime events leave an indelible mark on your consciousness altering the remaining course of your life. Two such events in my life were Woodstock and the Kumbha Mela. I was eighteen years old in 1969 when I attended the Woodstock music festival. Although my mind was considerably altered most of the time, I remember [...]