Realized by Laurie Anderson As America’s best-known experimental performance artist, Laurie Anderson has made her mark in many forms of media: multimedia stage performances, seven books, multiple studio albums and soundtracks, visual art museum installations. And, yes, filmmaking. Laurie’s meditative nonfiction film, Heart of a Dog, is an impressionistic musing on love, life, and death reinforced by evocative [...]
Linda Sparrowe offers insight to creating a better home yoga practice in her latest book. Calling all yogis with (or those wanting to create) a home practice: This beautifully inspirational book offers us an intimate look beyond the walls and into the sacred home spaces created by a number of beloved teachers. Acclaimed author, Linda [...]
Rocky Dawuni collaborates with Ben Harper and ukulele artist Tom Freund in his latest album, Branches of The Same Tree. Listen to international music star and humanitarian activist Rocky Dawuni’s latest album, Branches of The Same Tree and you’ll be enveloped in an uplifting groove-mix of reggae, Afrobeat, and global pop. Dawuni’s infectious songs invite [...]
Demi Lovato talks to LA YOGA Magazine about her health, exercise regimen and meditation practice. Artist Demi Lovato is a world-traveling superstar whose new album Confident will be released on October 16. She certainly displays confidence onstage as well as in other aspects of her life. She’s focused on balance and her recently launched skin [...]
SoMantra: Where Soma and Mantra are One is more than just an album of catchy chants. It’s a tool to tap into one’s innate wisdom, mitigate daily stress, and resolve chronic pain. Scott and Shanti Medina, a husband and wife team who are the voices and writers behind this transformative approach, have been combining [...]
davidji explains stress management techniques in his new book, destressifying. All biases aside (he taught me how to meditate after all), davidji delivers a gem with his second book destressifying. I can personally attest to his mastery of stress management and the Vedic teachings of meditation, yoga, and Ayurveda, all of which combine to offer [...]
Meditation is the science and art of living, says Culadasa, a meditation master with over 40 years of experience and author of The Mind Illuminated – A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science. The book is a systematic and nuanced journey through the stages of meditation as presented in traditional Buddhist texts, [...]
The insidious crime of cyberbullying is becoming ever more pervasive in our current digital age; studies show that more than half of adolescents today actually engage in bullying or have themselves been victims. Public shaming is practically becoming a sport, and students can be harassed not only in the schoolyard but online 24/7, with [...]
'The Answer': Seeking Truth at the Awareness Film Festival 'The Answer' will play at The Awareness Film Festival on Sept. 20 at 12 p.m. It’s been an inspiring and awakening week for many at the Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles. The festival opened September 10 and has drawn hundreds to see powerful [...]
Radicalize Director Sam Slovick Talks Skid Row and Kriya Yoga LA YOGA: Where did the initial call come from to direct the documentary Radicalize and follow the group of people catalyzing the Occupy Movement? Sam Slovick: I was working as a journalist in LA in October 2011 and I had a couple columns in [...]