Throughout our lives, we experience times of increased vulnerability, change and even confusion. One of the most intense of these are the teenage years, puberty and the transition from childhood to adulthood. According to Ayurveda, birth through the early twenties is the time of life dominated by the kapha dosha, the energies of water and [...]
How your food is prepared is as important as what food you prepare. This section gives you some tips and suggestions for making your cooking and dining experience pleasurable. Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. –– Harriet Van Horne A clean body, a clear mind and [...]
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 [...]
Seeking Ecstasy, Bliss And Equanimity Through Tantra My mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda, was fond of his whisky. I was fond of his drinking, for when he drank (usually Scotch) his already profound ability to speak meaningfully and insightfully on spiritual subjects would dramatically expand. Whenever we would imbibe together, he would encourage me [...]
Ayurveda has been practiced in the US for only about 30 years, yet it is one of the systems of medicine native to India and is thousands of years old. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com. Q: I was recently informed that applying onion juice to the scalp can sometimes [...]
Practice Pages : My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat I was lying in final twist, pulling my hip away from my ribs like a good little yogi, when the teacher, who didn’t know my practice that well, came over and gave me an adjustment. My back cracked. His eyes lit up; I could tell he [...]
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 [...]
The drought-ridden Indian state of Bihar is achingly poor, chronically dusty and famous for its corrupt politicians and gun-toting bandits. But Bihar has another, quite contrasting distinction, as the place where 2,500 years ago the thirty-five-year-old Guatama Buddha realized the innermost potential of the human mind under the Bodhi tree in the present-day city of [...]
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 [...]
Aromatic Alchemy With Essential Oils “You were calling for a lot of tulsi in this blend,” aromatic alchemist Allison Stillman said to me with a lilting voice gazing with wise eyes as she handed me a small blue bottle containing a customized blend of essential oils. She created the concoction in the midst of our [...]