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Kundalini Yoga at Golden Bridge in Hollywood Kundalini Yoga in Spanish at Golden Bridge Yoga. Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. $8 Suggested Donation. Each class includes instruction in yoga, a meditation and a deep relaxation. All levels welcome. Kundalini Yoga is a science that uses breathing techniques, chanting, body movements and meditation to get you [...]
The Interdependence of Individual Healing One night I went to bed healthy and strong. Then I woke up in the wee hours of the morning in inexplicable agony, crooked and folded in on myself, my spine screaming in cosmic tongues of ancient rage, my left arm curiously immobile. This was two years ago, when an [...]
Guru Prem Singh Khalsa: Alignment Of The Heart Seven years ago, after a history of intermittent back pain, I hit a brick wall which manifested as debilitating pain in my low back that left me unable to walk or do much of anything. This continued every second of every day for six months. My thoughts, [...]
In the past Century, from a remote village of India, Holy Mother, Sarada Devi, witnessing the blossoming of the Vedanta Center in the World, said that these centers were being built so her monastic sons could find and give refuge to her householder sons. This is exactly what the ashrams and centers of the Ramakrishna [...]
The Kyoto Hotel in downtown Los Angeles is a portal today. Braced against the streets of chaos, the Little Toyko-5 star is pressed tightly against the homeless vortex of Skid Row. In a few hours, Reluctant Healer, David Elliott will incite another kind vortex here. A whirling mass of self inflicted healing in a pranayamic [...]
Gypsy Yoga Anahatha Lara Sackey and Brian E. Plaster joined forces to create OLM, or Original Live Music for Original Live Movement. This unique gypsy Yoga studio travels around California sharing a one-of-a-kind Yoga experience. During the hour long Hatha-style practice, the OLM experience invites you to embrace all of your senses and encourages you [...]
Skillful Means In Any Path The bodhisattva, the ultimate master of skillful means, is not limited to one way of doing things, but takes many forms: child, adult, man, woman, artist, politician, musician, teacher, police officer, CEO. In practicing skillful action, we need to be ready to emerge in many guises, able to adapt to [...]
Shangri-La In the 1950's, a religious order rooted in ancient Indian philosophies established a center in the hills of Montecito. Have a century later, the Vedanta Society of Santa Barbara remains a serene retreat that embraces all faiths God was not especially welcome in our New Jersey home. On the contrary, my father offered the [...]
Gypsy-Style Cafe Enchants Venice Husband and wife owners, Farzad and Ava Kasrabod, are new to the restaurant business, but their unique and innovative cafe is quickly warming the stomachs of Venice dwellers. Vardo Café is centrally located between Yoga Works and Exhale on Main Street in Venice. It’s the newest vegetarian, vegan and raw restaurant [...]
Create A Better World: One Village At A Time Help A Life Foundation: Project Blue One village at a time” is the tagline for Help a Life Foundation’s efforts to create a better world. They’ve begun in Ethiopia, one of the planet’s poorest countries with what is estimated to be the world’s largest populations of orphaned [...]