Relating To Love By Checking On The Stars And Being Down To Earth His ready smile, which is arm, inviting, and in and of itself could begin a conversation or set a person at ease – this characteristic was what I first noticed in my initial introduction to Dr. Craig Martin, the author [...]
Stay Strong For the past seven years, David Newman (also known as Durga Das) has been traveling the world with his wife Mira and other band members (including beloved LA-based musician Philippo Franchini) sharing the art of kirtan (call-and-response devotional singing) live and with albums like Lotus Feet and his newest, titled To Be Home. [...]
In the weeks and hours leading up to the romantic benchmark of Valentine’s Day, chocolate buying and consumption skyrockets. Chocolate can be either a form of junk food or an ambrosia worthy of our divine nature, depending on what is combined with the bittersweet base. Not all chocolate is created equally and many of the [...]
Be Here, Be Love, Be Now with Ram Dass To even attempt to put words to the impact Ram Dass’ grace and presence has had over the past forty-plus years would be a task, indeed. In 1967, one young Dr. Richard Alpert, former Harvard psychologist, made a foray to India in 1967, where he met [...]
Jnani Chapman is a master at speaking to the body; she’s skilled at the sweet-talking compassion that expresses the type of love that we may be lucky to experience in this lifetime. Yet if we’re really lucky, we cross paths with someone like Jnani who believes that this love happens not just because of luck [...]
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait Karma Yoga In Action In his evococative biography, Touched by Fire: The Ongoing Journey of a Spiritual Seeker, teacher Pandit Rajmani Tigunait PhD describes his own path of spiritual seeking and questioning, of meeting his spiritual teacher, Swami Rama, and the great benefits that can come from living the contemplative [...]
Ritual in Motion, Unmasking the Secrets of the Body Through The Thinking Body, The Feeling Mind® When you step over the threshold of Linda Lack's Two Snakes Studios on La Cienega Boulevard where she teaches her signature technique of The Thinking Body, The Feeling Mind®, there is an immediate feeling of entering sacred [...]
Interpreter Of The Guru Gita, Artist, Teacher Through evocative words and onscreen adventures, and an intersection of mainstream pop culture and ancient spirituality, Eat, Pray, Love introduced millions to ashrams in India, the practice of meditation and to the seemingly esoteric yet powerful and purifying selection of Sanskrit verses known as the Guru [...]
Peter Russell Seeking Consciousness And Finding Hope Revolutionary futurist, student of mathematics, physics, philosophy and consciousness, Peter Russell is a prolific writer and speaker whose articulate explanations of nonduality and insights into the conundrums of modern life and the nature of consciousness are impactful and provocative. Called an eco-philosopher extraordinaire, he is the [...]
Ayurvedic Practitioner And Yoga Teacher Who Asks Himself, "What Would Hanuman Do?" “Since 1984, I’ve been trying to leave Los Angeles.” Arun Deva still lives, teaches Yoga and Ayurveda and practices Yoga therapy and Ayurveda – all in Los Angeles (and points beyond). It’s fortunate for Angelenos that fate has kept him in this city [...]