New Understandings Unlock The Secrets Of This Elusive Hormone History of Vitamin D Deficiency Vitamin D deficiency disease, also known as Rickets, was reported as far back as the 1600s as a bone softening disease. It was originally treated with cod liver oil in the 1800s but it wasn’t until the 1930s that Vitamin D [...]
Practice Pages : My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat I’m so excited! I’ve made a huge breakthrough in my practice. After only twelve years of determined effort, I have moved on from the first sutra to the second! At this rate I will get through all 195 of Pantanjali’s Sutras by the time I’m 2,340 years [...]
Choose health! That’s my email signature, which serves as a reminder to make the best decisions possible where well-being is concerned. But when life gets in the way, we may ask ourselves: Are we all actually choosing good health? At the age of fifty-three and after a lifetime of practicing Yoga and meditation, I forgot [...]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month Yogastyles Provides Support Yogastyles founder Susan Nichols is a breast cancer survivor and she’s celebrating by supporting women during the month of October by donating a portion of sales to Right Action for Women, the Christina Applegate Foundation (rightactionforwomen.org). Right Action for Women helps women receive needed [...]
Ayahuasca, Shamanism And The Diets Of Healing I’ll open your thoughts. By doing so I’ll fill you with joy. By doing so I’ll straighten your thoughts. By doing so I’ll straighten your body. now I’ll heal you to the depths of your heart. By doing so I’ll fill you with immense joy. By doing so [...]
Getting Unstuck: Moving With The Current of Life and Finding Guides Along The Way WE ALL HAVE HAD experiences of feeling stuck in our lives, whether for a short time, or pathologically stuck, where nothing seems to help us get out of the morass of a sticky swamp. Psychiatrist and mind-body medicine pioneer James [...]
A Shamanic Exploration of the Healing Power of Stones THE SUN BROKE THE CLOUDS AROUND 10:30 A.M. on August 24, 1987, as a late model white VW convertible bug lumbered across the landscape near Salinas, California. Kip Roseman’s journey back to Los Angeles the day after his eighteen birthday celebration weekend with the [...]
While lying naked in the sand in an idealized version of a South Sea-based Polynesian existence may not be a realistic option for those of us who walk through life juggling commitments, work life and cultural norms (and legal constraints) regarding clothing, finding a closer relationship to skin and touch can be beneficial for health, [...]
Embracing Community Through Contact IS IT POSSIBLE FOR LOVERS, FAMILIES and entire communities to experience the same luminous and peaceful transcendence that yogis and contemplatives enjoy in deep meditation? The electroencephalograph (brain wave) literature informs us that the coherent EEG patterns of meditators are the same as those of breast-feeding infants when tenderly cradled by [...]
Runners, Well ALL Athletes, Should Do Yoga I feel like I’m doing the Late Show with David Letterman, he’s always doing “The Top 10 Reasons” for something or other. (If only I could be as funny.) Here are some of the easy, commonsense reasons, why any athlete should be doing yoga. In fact, I give [...]