Some come like lightning... flashes of fierce love to electrify the night bursting at the seam with joy, overflowing with a love so perfect and pure... Some come like thunder crashes of passion rumbling across this fragile life helping us remember the power and potency inside each moment Some come like rain showering our lives [...]
Infinite Push down to melt your heart into the earth where all good things flower and grow don't you know you are just waiting to blossom Rise up and reach for the sky lift so high to fly free of your burdens or worries fears they only hold you back if you let them Reach [...]
Philosophy Bites is a collection of short conversations with twenty-five prominent philosophers ranging over topics from animal rights, to philosophy, multiculturalism, architecture and atheism. Of particular interest is John Cottingham on what constitutes a meaningful life. He claims that a life worth living is one motivated by our individual goals and projects, but also modulated [...]
STOP Stop and breathe and listen to what’s going on inside Pause and feel and smile from deep within your soul Search and find and follow the path that calls your name Do nothing Be everything Stop moving just ... STOP. *2007 Word Is Born Dylan Barmmer is a writer, poet, performance artist and yogi [...]
If you ask a yogi or yogini what keeps him or her coming back to the mat, the answer usually boils down to, “It works.” The question now gaining prominence is not, “Does it work?” but rather, “How does it work?” Dr. Susan Smalley, Founder and Director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), and [...]
Books To Gift Your Favorite Yogi On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Ten Kirtans playing, Nine Swamis singing, Eight Yoginis posing, Seven Tantrics teasing, Six Gurus gabbing, Five Pundits preaching, Four scholars scolding, Three tickets to the Kumbh Mela, Two asana mats, and a statue of Ganesh in a [...]
The ancient and revered epic of The Ramayana takes us through the entire gamut of human experience: love, loss, adventure, betrayal, devotion, heroism, fear and back to karma, dharma and yes, love. It’s a two thousand-year-old sacred text that has been interpreted and reinterpreted around in the world and in multiple media. In this innovative [...]
The Little Soul and the Sun Neil Donald Walsch Waking Up Media Neil Donald Walsch’s beloved and provocative book, Conversations with God, contains the parable of the Little Soul and the Sun, a tale brought to life with this animated film. The Little Soul and the Sun follows Max, a young boy who [...]
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 [...]
Many in the West still hold the idea that their Yoga practice is purely physical fitness. Some might be surprised to discover that this profound science of well-being draws from a 5,000-year-old tradition of balancing body, mind and spirit to strengthen an individual’s immediate experience of the divine. Myths of the Asanas: the Stories at [...]