The Community Shows Up To Talk About Service, Committment And Giving Gift-giving is a way to share our love. As we head into the holiday season, we can consider our relationships with each other and with the Earth as we choose gifts of all kinds that perpetuate sustainable relationships. Joni Yung Cyclist / Yogi / [...]
Fusionartist, Mystic Painter and Teacher Gazing at any of Fusionartist Rassouli’s creative works provides a glimpse into the mystic loving eye with which he looks at the world. Rassouli has been a celebrated and innovative painter since childhood who later trained as an architect. Born in Isfahan, Iran, and currently living in Southern [...]
Standing Still To Find The Authentic Self “Can you ever just stop?” Maya Rasak says one of her meditation teachers asked her this question before giving her the following advice: Stop, stop running, stop being busy and just breathe and feel. She didn’t take this advice to stop easily; it took an illness [...]
Imagine that your elected representatives came to an art gallery in your neighborhood, and demanded, under threat of violence, that an exhibit be closed down because it contained photos that were upsetting to the Chinese government. That’s exactly what happened in October this year in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The prestigious Drik Gallery had [...]
Coal as an energy source has two (and only two) things going for it: it’s cheap and abundant. Both the USUS and China have tons of coal under their surfaces, and huge appetites for burning this dirtiest of fossil fuels. Mining, hauling and burning current coal could supply the world with electricity, possibly for centuries. [...]
Practice Pages : My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat I’m so excited! I’ve made a huge breakthrough in my practice. After only twelve years of determined effort, I have moved on from the first sutra to the second! At this rate I will get through all 195 of Pantanjali’s Sutras by the time I’m 2,340 years [...]
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 twenty-seven years old and have been suffering from floaters in [...]
Consciousness As the Portal to the Absolute Stephen Wolinsky is a direct student of Nisargadatta Maharaj, the author of I Am That, a book which swept the community of consciousness in the 1970s and still has a strong influence today on those who are seeking. The path Nisargadatta Maharaj taught is Advaita Vedanta. As Wolinsky [...]
Creating Community To Mobilize Activism and Transformation In The Hope: a Guide to Sacred Activism, Andrew Harvey defines Sacred Activism as a force of compassion in action destined to midwife the birth of a new humanity able to co-create with the Divine a new world. According to Harvey, “This great birth will have to come [...]
As we think about developing more community and how to make a difference in the world, we look for ways that we can join together and give back. Here are some upcoming events and initiatives. Experience Yoga’s Expression of Peace and Harmony in Action Saturday, November 7 Yoga’s experiential messages of peace and [...]