September is the traditional time for us to list information about teacher training programs, concentrating on those located in California. We sent out thousands of questionnaires asking for information, as we do every year. This year, we also posted on Facebook asking for participants, casting the net throughout our network. Click here to see the responses [...]
LA Yoga Magazine: July/August 2009 LIKE MANY TRADITIONS, Yoga is handed down from one generation to the next and is often shared within families. In my own family, my mother was a dedicated Yogini. My mother’s guru (teacher) was Goswami Kriyananda, the founder of the Temple of Kriya Yoga in Chicago. I can [...]
Finding Your Inner Guide Through Lucid Dreaming Lucid dreaming is an exhilarating and enlightening experience, accessible to everyone that is an essential practice of Tibetan Yoga and has been part of Toltec Shamanism for centuries. Lucid dreaming offers the practitioner a remarkable opportunity to connect directly with inner guidance. The Yoga we practice in our [...]
Practice Pages: Yoga Therapy Oh, Those Aching Joints! How Yoga Helps People With Arthritis Feel Young Again “TODAY’S NOT SUCH A GREAT DAY.” That thought often resounds in the minds of people living with arthritis. Maybe the weather changed. Maybe they gardened a bit too much the day before. Regardless of the cause, participating in a [...]
BEFORE MY SUMMER, 2008, visit to Rancho La Puerto with Swami Veda Bharati, I was more than a little nervous about committing to a week of study and meditation. Fortunately, I sat on the bus ride to the ranch next to Praful Saklani, a busy New York executive and avid meditator who spent [...]
A Family Photo Album Sometimes you're born into a family, sometimes you marry into one and sometimes you find your family in a room filled with sweaty headstanders. But whether you are bound by blood, love or belief, family means family photos. Usually the family comes first. But recently I discovered a part [...]
Shri Krishna Pattabhi Jois, the highlyrespected guru of the intense vinyasa flow style known as Ashtanga Yoga, died at 2:30 A.M. local time in Mysore, India, on Monday, May 18, 2009, at the age of 93. Jois was among the most influential, prominent and beloved figures in the Western Yoga community. Along with B.K.S. Iyengar [...]
Sutra 49 From The Radiance Sutras, A New Version Of The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra CHOCOLATE. A PERFECTLY RIPE peach. Wine. A warm cinnamon roll. Cold lemonade on a hot day. Hallelujah, there is a meditation technique for savoring your favorite treat. Wow, that means there’s a chocolate meditation. If you can meditate on Om, then [...]
Finding Bliss Through Community And Chant Saturday, 11:45 P.M., the Pod nightclub, Dublin. It’s been twenty-five minutes since my boyfriend and I dropped E and washed it down with Bacardi and Coke before switching to water (alcohol dilutes E’s clean high). We’re waiting to “come up,” we’re waiting for the high to kick in. We [...]
Everything in life has a unique rhythm. From our heartbeat, to the cycles of the moon and the length of each season, everything follows a pattern or tempo reflecting the cyclical nature of life. As a mother, I am learning to become more comfortable with the rhythm of motherhood and the balance between being a [...]