Ahn's Anger Gail Silver Illustrated by Christine Krömer Plum Blossom Books, Parallax Press What does it mean to sit with anger and how can we teach a child to engage in this practice? This is the aim of Gail Silver’s new book Ahn’s Anger. Silver is the founder of Yoga Child in Philadelphia [...]
An Interview With Andrew Hahn, The Kirtan Rabbi Rabbi Andrew Hahn, known as the Kirtan Rabbi, has been facilitating Hebrew bhajan (sacred song) over the last several years. His goal is to create a cross-fertilization of song and wisdom by bringing Jewish teachings to the Yoga world even as he presents bhakti (devotion) to the [...]
Exploring The Healing Effects Of The Gong’s Resonating Sounds THE POWERFUL VIBRATION OF THE GONG ripples through the air. The succession of sound waves progressively excites each and every cell of the body before gently allowing them to rest. Chinese gong makers kept its metallic composition secret, so the instrument has long had a sense [...]
Finding Storytelling Through Community And Voice Walk out on stage, take a deep breath and start telling a story. When standing exposed beneath the spotlight, even though the house lights are dim, it’s still possible to make out faces in the audience. The seats are filled with both friends and strangers; they’re a community, whom [...]
ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS, there are 100 billion galaxies in the universe, and around 100 billion stars in each galaxy, including our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Our Sun is just one fairly mediocre star at the edge of it. And this universe is continuing to expand infinitely. As is the macrocosm, so is the microcosm: [...]
Kirtan Master Jai Uttal Speaks About Music, Love and Addiction From the banjo picking of Appalachian influences to Brazilian rhythm and classical Indian cadences, Jai Uttal’s release Thunder Love is a foot-stomping, hand-clapping ode to love and longing in all its forms. Amidst a busy touring schedule, Jai Uttal paused to talk to LA YOGA [...]
Reema: Truth Love Creation Nutone Records Reema Datta is a beautiful devotee who embraces many Vedic traditions and techniques and puts her innate abilities into a collection of nine chants. When it comes to Yoga, Reema is no amateur. She first learned mantra (sacred syllable), Ayurvedic cooking, pranayama (breath techniques) and asana [...]
The Tao of Fertility By Daoshing Ni, DOM, LAc, PhD and Dana Herko Collins, 2008 Reviewed by Natalie D-Napoleon Daoshing Ni (better known as Dr. Dao) draws on his ancestral experience as a healer (belonging to seventy-four generations of masters) and his skill as an acupuncturist to present a holistic approach to conception [...]
The Essential Low Back Program: Relieve Pain and Restore Health Robin Rothenberg Pacific Institute Yoga Therapy Reviewed by Felicia M. Tomasko, RN What does it mean for a therapeutic Yoga CD set to state that its effects are clinically proven? For Rothenberg’s Essential Low Back Program, the endorsement refers to Karen Sherman’s much-lauded [...]
With Tina Malia, Larisa Stow & Shakti Tribe Shakti means forceful feminine energy that has the potential to transform and purify. Shakti inspires us to have faith, to love and forgive – and this is precisely the kind of powerful transformation that Larisa Stow & Shakti Tribe seek to inspire through their music and their [...]