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 [...]
I actually started to be personally affected by the implications of the scientific information that was coming out,” says British biologist John Stanley. This “information” includes a shocking prediction by the UN Environmental Program and the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)which represents a consensus view of 2,000top climatologists, that the effects of habitatdestruction and [...]
ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT wisdom of Ayurveda, rasayama (the practice of antiaging therapies) is not limited to bringing a young look from the outside. Rather, it aims at enhancing physical stamina, mental function and disease resistance. Rasayana is an attempt to reverse biological age, to turn back the biological clock. Rasa is a Sanskrit word [...]
The Adventures And Misadventures of a Month of Storing Trash: The Story of LA YOGA and the Green Yoga Association’s Mindfulness Challenge Winner IT’S SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009, and today is a good day because it is the last day I will be keeping my trash. I’ve managed to stuff thirty days and thirty nights of [...]
Ayurveda has been practiced in the U.S. for only about thirty 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'm a pitta (fire element) person working to restore balance including establishing an [...]
Robert Kiyosaki, Vietnam War veteran turned millionaire entrepreneur and best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad recently teamed up with his sister Emi Kiyosaki, a peace-loving, working mother now known as Ani Tenzin Kacho, ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun. Their new book is Rich Brother, Rich Sister; the topic of which is...money. Ani Kacho recently faced [...]
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 am a forty-two-year-old male who has congestion in my middle ear. Last [...]
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 have an addiction to alcohol. I have had a very turbulent past [...]
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 have an addiction to alcohol. I have had a very turbulent [...]