In The Heart of the Shaman, Alberto Villoldo makes a promise to the reader. He says, “The practices...will help you to forge a sacred dream for yourself. They will help you craft a destiny infused with courage, and driven by vision. The practices of the luminous warrior are essential in a time when dreaming happens [...]
Dedicate Yourself to Your Destiny through Personal Contracts A few years ago, I received a challenging medical diagnosis. In my travels through the Amazon I had picked up a dozen varieties of parasites. Until then, I was convinced that other people got old or sick but that surely would never happen to me. Now I [...]
Dead Set on Living You know when people ask you, “If you could host the ultimate dinner party, who would be on the guest list?” Dead Set on Living: On Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from F**cking Up to Waking Up reads like the transcript of the best dinner party ever. If you [...]
The Yoga Mind: 52 Essential Principles of Yoga Philosophy to Deepen Your Practice, delivers on the promise of the title. Author Rina Jakubowicz is both a sincere teacher as well as a dedicated student of all of the limbs of yoga practice. In this user-friendly tome, she shares a number of practices. Rina organizes [...]
Hold onto your seats. Because this memoir by Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass, is a “Pow Pow Pow Pow Experience.” It will grab you, spin you, and pull you up and down until it lands you into your center of gravity. Anne Clendening is a yoga teacher and creative nonfiction writer living [...]
Hang around any ashram or yoga studio for 10 minutes and you’ll meet someone whose quest was sparked by Autobiography of a Yogi, the stranger-than-fiction account of how the Indian lad Mukunda became Paramahansa Yogananda — meeting possibly immortal Himalayan adepts, witnessing feats of superconsciousness, and attaining the light of Self-realization. The Life of Yogananda [...]
In Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction, Dean Sluyter quotes the twentieth-century Indian sage Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, “Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. You will experience peace and freedom from fear.” Fear Less: Putting Freedom into Practice Peace and freedom from fear. That definitely sounds like [...]
Stacey Allyson Loves Introducing Kids to Yoga Yoga teacher, mom, and creative powerhouse Stacey Alysson shares her love for introducing kids to yoga in her book Parker Pig Goes to Yoga. This sweet and playful story is a delightful journey through a yoga class with Parker Pig and her yoga friends. It is a perfect [...]
The poet/activist Yung Pueblo is swiftly recognized among social media circles for the lean style of composition and design he employs. His posts take the shape of distilled down verse floating in a simple black and white typeface among wide margins. The technique lends to the reader a relaxed spaciousness of thought - void of [...]
Photo of Andrea Marcum by Jeff Skeirik/Rawtographer. Clothing by K-Deer. Jewelry by Gogh Jewelry Design. Location: Goorus Yoga in Pacific Palisades Yoga Teacher Andrea Marcum encourages Acceptance Yoga teacher Andrea Marcum offers classes that are known as being some of the toughest in town. I landed in her class 1000% by peer pressure. In [...]