Christine Burke Photo by Erika Flores Bermudez The Power of Breath and Hand Yoga: Pranayama and Mudras for Health and Wellbeing is the latest offering from Christine Burke, who also wrote The Yoga Healer, Remedies for the Body, Mind, and Spirit. Burke is the co-owner with her husband, Gary McCleery, of Liberation [...]
It might as well be reaching the summit of Everest, that’s how far-fetched running a marathon is for Brittany at the beginning of Brittany Runs a Marathon. At 27, she is lost in her dingy Queens lifestyle, with a part-time job she won’t take seriously, regular partying, and generally self-destructive behavior. Who hasn’t felt lost [...]
A film exploring enlightenment with humor and self-acceptance Becoming Nobody is a feature-length documentary that dives into American spiritual teacher Ram Dass’ quintessential wisdom through authenticity, humor, and pure humanness. This film is a collaboration between director Jamie Catto, producer Raghu Markus (who is also the Director of Love Serve Remember Foundation), and Google Empathy [...]
How to Cultivate Passion and Fertility Denise Wiesner’s new book Conceiving with Love will change the way you think about sex. It is a whole-body approach to creating intimacy, reigniting passion, and increasing fertility. Although this book was specifically written for couples who have been trying to conceive through natural means and using Western reproductive [...]
Honeyland offers no explanations, a story simply just unfolds. This documentary begins with a woman’s pilgrimage in an arid high desert mountains supported by unusual harmonic music. Is this modern day or an ancient time period? It is a doc, so it must be recent. And, where in the world are we? It turns out [...]
Most yoga communities provide a refuge from the pain of the world, but sometimes the opposite is true. In the last few years, stories of power abuse, sexual and emotional misconduct and even cult dynamics in some yoga and Buddhist communities have begun to widely emerge. This aligns with larger mainstream movements of #metoo and [...]
Megan Monahan Tells Us: Don't Hate, Meditate! “Stop Pressing the Snooze Button on Your Awareness.” To me, this says it all. It’s the first subhead in the first chapter (“Meditation—Your New Nonnegotiable”) of Megan Monahan’s first book, Don’t Hate, Meditate! In these pages, Megan fully delivers the methods to make this happen. The series of [...]
Jennifer Pastiloff Shares What it Really Means to Be Human In On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, Jennifer Pastiloff tells the story of how she went from thirteen years of waitressing to facilitating yoga and writing retreats in exotic locations throughout the world. Pastiloff has transformed a love [...]
Eddie Stern Believes Yoga Can Transform Your Life Eddie Stern has been teaching yoga asana in New York City since 1989. While in Mysore, India in 1990, a bookkeeper mentioned that a great yogic master was in town. Eddie got the address, showed up the next morning unannounced, and yoga in the West has never [...]
Wild Mercy: Living The Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Wisdom Mystics Every so often, we come across a work so perfectly timely that it seems truly divinely inspired, and the recent release of Mirabai Starr’s book Wild Mercy: Living The Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics is a perfect case in point. [...]