Medical intuitive and mystic Caroline Myss has more than twenty-seven years of experience as a guide and teacher who specializes in assisting people to understand the multitude of reasons why they develop an illness: physical, emotional and psychological. Myss is the author of the bestsellers: Anatomy of the Spirit, Why People Don’t Heal [...]
Yoga instructor Dennis Daniels theatricality is part of everything he does so it comes as no surprise that show business is in his blood. “I saw my older sister twirling when I was two and I said, ‘I can do that’,” he says now. And he did, learning baton twirling and dance from [...]
Beth Shaw: Karma Yogi, Animal Advocate Beth Shaw is the kind of dog lover who will stop when she sees an abandoned dog in need of rescue. She’ll do more than stop; she’ll make a commitment to make a difference. Even though Shaw and her partner already shared their home with pug Ping and Boston [...]
Psychiatrist and intuitive Judith Orloff is simultaneously passionate, endearing and down to earth when she talks about how to navigate the often rocky bramble patch that is our emotional processes. In all of her books, she offers practical suggestions on how to tap into our intuitive abilities and to negotiate the emotional journey of [...]
The Sport of Yoga On power yoga teacher Mark Blanchard’s website, Cincinnati Bengals player TJ Houshmandzadeh describes his yoga practice, “It’s like lifting weights and stretching at the same time.” When in LA, Houshmandzadeh trains with Blanchard and the football star appears in Blanchard’s newest DVD series. These types of testimonials may well inspire a [...]
Sitting In The Fire Of Our Experience A fire ignited near our Rustic Canyon retreat, and the racket, smoke and ashes floating through the window reflected the scattered states of our consciousness. It seemed fitting that helicopters and sirens would interrupt our meditation, since even the most disciplined meditators are experiencing some fear about the [...]
Swami Veda Bharati gave the opening address at the International Association of Yoga Therapists conference in March, 2008. In his talk, he stated that the most important yoga therapy text is the Charaka Samhita. The Charaka Samhita is a Sanskrit tome generally believed to have been compiled two thousand years ago and is a work [...]
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 [...]
Mary Dunn With great appreciation for the star that lived among us, the Iyengar community said goodbye to Mary Dunn on September 4, 2008. She passed peacefully with her family in New York. The daughter of Mary Palmer, who introduced Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar to America in 1974, Mary Dunn moved to San Diego [...]
The first time I saw Andrew Harvey speak, during one of Shiva Rea’s teacher trainings, he delivered his appeal for listeners – for all of us – to engage in activism from a grounded place of sacred passion with such fire that I thought he would combust right in front of our eyes. He has [...]