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 [...]
Adventures and Misadventures of a Month of Storing Trash Keira was the winner of the LA YOGA and Green Yoga Association Mindfulness Challenge, where she accepted what may seem like a crazy directive: save all of your trash for a month in an effort to create more mindfulness and less trash. For her dedication and [...]
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: What are some of the best ways to promote ojas (strength and vitality) [...]
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 [...]
Paddling to save pilot whales in Japan and beyond with Surfers for Cetaceans. In October, 2007, a pod of 35 surfers silently slipped into the ocean off the coast of Taiji, where the water washing around their ankles was tainted red, confirming they had reached their destination. Taiji is a small fishing village in Japan, [...]
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 [...]
Touch Provides Calm To Mother And Baby Modern obstetrical care emphasizes pregnancy, labor and delivery, but gives less attention to the mother and baby after birth. Ayurveda, on the other hand, considers the six weeks after birth to be a precious opportunity. New mothers need time, attention and rest. After the strain of birth, the [...]