How do we develop our habits? Are we conscious of our habits? Do they serve us and help move us forward in our lives or do they keep us spinning in place? Are our habits crowding the hours of our days or creating more time in our lives? When it comes to time management, these [...]
Dr. Tererai Trent has a story to tell. In The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams, she recounts her own personal journey from a rural cow herding village in Zimbabwe, where she married young, to earning multiple degrees in the United States culminating in a PhD. This journey serves as a foundation for [...]
The cover of this inspiring book, Dancing in the Unknown features the collection’s editor Betsy Chasse as a vibrant, be-dazzled, ethereal figure leaning back into…. well, the unknown. She represents every person who ever took a leap of faith, even if they had no clue where they would land. What Happens if we Jump off the [...]
How to Survive Your Childhood Now That You’re an Adult by Ira Israel is both scholarly and accessible. Ira Israel is a prolific and accomplished psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and author. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania and subsequently studied for 25 years in Paris, India, Los Angeles, Connecticut, and Santa Barbara. Israel earned graduate degrees [...]
Yoga for Diabetes by Rachel Zinman I wish I had this book when I was diagnosed with type one diabetes 25 years ago! My journey with yoga and Ayurveda as a path to self-healing is right in line with the teachings offered in Yoga for Diabetes by learned yogini Rachel Zinman (check out her blog!). [...]
You’ve been practicing you your entire life. You have always been the author of your own experience. A journal (and specifically the book, Practice You) is an invitation to become the author of a sacred text of your own design, an opportunity to write a personal field guide to your highest self. How can [...]
Real Love unveils the many layers of love. Through the Buddhist lens of mindfulness and loving-kindness, the chapters build upon each other with meditations, exercises, and reflections on our relationships to others, the world, and with ourselves. I’ll cut to the chase. You have to love everybody. Yep. Everybody. It will not always be [...]
It is a constant revealing, a constant unlayering or peeling away, to find that essence of who you really are. The artist Francesco Mastalia has traveled the world photographing tribal, religious, spiritual, and indigenous people. These past couple of years however have found him a bit closer to his home in Rhinebeck, New York, [...]
Join LA Yoga at the best Los Angeles events for September 2017. Los Angeles Events: Classes and Workshops Accessible Yoga Learn how to make classes welcoming to everyone and to approach students in a trauma-informed way with Accessible Yoga Founder Jivana Heyman. Details 7-10 Sep 9am-5pm $550 Spiral Path Yoga, 3115 Foothill [...]
I was wrapping up a Friday afternoon at work and I could not recall the details of my week. Days and hours seemed to be passing in a blur. What if I could stay more connected to the present moment? That is precisely what the powerful documentary film Walk With Me illustrates -- how [...]