The Enlightened Entrepreneur Yoga and business are one in the same. Go with me for a second. In Yoga, you show up, work hard, sweat, challenge yourself, get pissed off at the teacher, realize that it’s your own stuff, move through your resistance and then settle into a still space and reap the [...]
How better to begin each day in a way that is clean and fresh than by improving the purity and goodness of your home, yourself and your planet? Our skin, our largest organ, absorbs everything we directly apply to it. We also absorb the residues of the soaps and detergents used to clean the clothing, towels [...]
Community: News Business That Touches Your Soul The Sufis talk about “the world life” and “the soul life.” They say that a person must be attuned to the soul life through meditation and inward experience while simutaneously participating full-out on Earth on the playground of the world life. Congruency is necessary: If one is not [...]
Remembering That You And The Planet Are One We don ’t practice Yoga to escape the world. Rather than drawing away from the changing and challenging world around us, I believe we practice so that we can live powerfully and harmoniously with all existence, regardless of what type of Yoga we do. The [...]
The Community Shows Up To Talk About Service, Committment And Giving Gift-giving is a way to share our love. As we head into the holiday season, we can consider our relationships with each other and with the Earth as we choose gifts of all kinds that perpetuate sustainable relationships. Joni Yung Cyclist / Yogi / [...]
Imagine the number of umbrellas that are tossed each year, since one of them might be broken by a strong gust. Most umbrellas are made from nylon, metal and plastic – all materials that come from limited resources such as mined metal ores and oil, and the nylon and plastic could have toxic effects after [...]
Coal as an energy source has two (and only two) things going for it: it’s cheap and abundant. Both the USUS and China have tons of coal under their surfaces, and huge appetites for burning this dirtiest of fossil fuels. Mining, hauling and burning current coal could supply the world with electricity, possibly for centuries. [...]
October 24, 2009 was noted as the International Day of Climate Action in a visible statement of the number considered to be upper limit of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is the safe limit for humanity. Current atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are measured to be 387 parts per million. [...]
Some of us are fortunate enough to have drinking water available whenever we want it. We can ponder the minutiae of choices – the amount for optimum health, tap or filtered, filtered at home or elsewhere or how to carry it with us. For the most part, our cities have supplied us with drinkable water. [...]
Imagine practicing Yoga in the majestic Rocky Mountains in the fall amidst the glowing gold aspen trees, with abundant clean air filling your lungs and the sunshine warming your face. Large herds of elk have descended from higher elevations for their annual mating season. The yogic sense of connection with natural surroundings is effortless. Now [...]