Ayurvedic Suggestions To Put A Spring In Your Step Wherever Your Wanderlust Takes You MOVEMENT, EXCITEMENT, new places and new experiences: If we enjoy the unexpected and the adventure, we may love to travel, to reconnect with people or discover new frontiers. Whether we dread packing a suitcase or can’t wait to get out the [...]
Mung Beans are Beloved in Ayurveda Mung beans are one of the most cherished foods in Ayurveda. They are tridoshic, which means they can be eaten to balance all three doshas (energetic forces) especially when they are cooked with appropriate spices. They are very nourishing, while being relatively easy to digest. Unlike many other larger [...]
Photo: Charles Peterson, charlespeterson.net Quan is seemingly unaffected by the relentless barrage of sexual assaults regularly performed on the senses of Los Angeles’ population by corporate advertisers. American Apparel soft-core billboards are not resonating on the same frequency with the young Buddhist monk; short in stature, long in devotion, he lives in the [...]
Practice Pages: Meditation We are at a crucial transition period on our planet Earth. We have grown in numbers, technology and interconnectedness. The result is that we affect each other. We affect each other more than we can even imagine; just as we affect the environment that has sustained us for millennia. The news is full [...]
New Film Looks For Answers to the Mystery of the Disappearing Honeybees and Searches For Solutions We can thank humble honeybees for the bounty we enjoy. From cucumbers to coconuts, almonds to apples, flax to fennel along with numerous other food, oil and fabric crops (including cotton), our lives and fates are intertwined with those [...]
Coloring Our Practice With A Green Hue Helps Us Become More Intimate With Our Environment Earth from Space Our beautiful world seems a bit rough around the edges these days, from pollution, crowding and despair. We may feel helpless in the face of the bad news regarding climate change, species extinctions, chemical poisoning [...]
Practice Pages: Meditation This is the third installment in an ongoing column focused on meditation practices in different traditions. I am often asked about what Zen can teach us about the intimate personal relationships that play such an important role in all our lives. When our walls are down, we are more in touch with [...]
For both men and women, normal, healthy sexual function is a sometimes mysterious intertwining of physical, emotional and psychological interplay. Take for example the conflict in time schedule between a woman’s monthly ovulation cycle and the average man’s semen cycle of four to eight times a month. It would seem to be a minor miracle [...]
My platform has always been one of Mindfulness and raising awareness on a subtle level…the type of awareness that if we all made small changes to our daily routine we could generate massive changes. Living in a city, we become accustomed to trash lining the streets. Taking a quick look around, it is [...]
Recyclemania is a currently running national competition with 514 colleges and universities participating. Forty institutions in California are registered (the full list is found on the website). The goal of Recyclemania is to increase awareness and participation in diverting materials from landfills and instead using them as raw materials to make other products. This saves [...]