A Shamanic Exploration of the Healing Power of Stones THE SUN BROKE THE CLOUDS AROUND 10:30 A.M. on August 24, 1987, as a late model white VW convertible bug lumbered across the landscape near Salinas, California. Kip Roseman’s journey back to Los Angeles the day after his eighteen birthday celebration weekend with the [...]
Master of Brain "Techknowledgey" ILCHI LEE DOESN’T SEEM a likely entertainer. The mastermind behind a movement called Brain Education is serious business and rarely makes public presentations. So when he takes the stage at a hotel in Koreatown the brain philosopher-educator plays to a capacity crowd. Ilchi Lee is operating from the premise that, “Humanity, [...]
Photo: Charles Peterson, charlespeterson.net Quan is seemingly unaffected by the relentless barrage of sexual assaults regularly performed on the senses of Los Angeles’ population by corporate advertisers. American Apparel soft-core billboards are not resonating on the same frequency with the young Buddhist monk; short in stature, long in devotion, he lives in the [...]
Golden Bridge Yoga in Hollywood was once the Cadillac dealer where Elvis shopped. Then it became the sound stage where Old Blue Eyes, Johnny Mathis and Barbra Streisand did their sound checks before it transcended the confines of the entertainment industry and fixed its gaze on a more enlightened path. “We didn’t pick [...]
12 Step Spirituality At Yoga Works on Main Streettreet in Santa Monica, CA, a didgeridoo dub-mix whumps in Vinnie Marino’s filled-to-maximum-capacity vinyasa flow class. You really gotta get here early to get a spot where the mats are squeezed close together and even the space on stage is packed. Among his students are [...]