Practice Pages: Yoga Therapy What is Yoga Therapy? by Felicia M. Tomasko, RN The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) sponsored their third annual Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR) in Los Angeles, March 5 - 8. The weekend featured a historic three-day meeting of the organization’s Council of Schools, where more than [...]
In Recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April a number of LA-based conscious companies are coming together to raise funds with yogitoes® founder Susan Nichols. Nichols is reaching out to the community with the intention of growing a small grassroots campaign into a global campaign, much as the PINK campaign has served for breast [...]
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 [...]
Golden Bridge Yoga in Hollywood was once the Cadillac dealer where Elvis shopped. Then it became the sound stage where Old Blue Eyes, Johnny Mathis and Barbra Streisand did their sound checks before it transcended the confines of the entertainment industry and fixed its gaze on a more enlightened path. “We didn’t pick [...]
Manifest Hope was involved in creating the now-famous HOPE with an image of Obama posters by artist Shepard Fairey, and together they developed the Manifest Hope show. They were looking for contemporary works of art related to the spirit of what Barack Obama represents for this country, so I created a portrait to [...]
My daughter was sitting on my bed when I returned home from a Yoga class. “What’s that on your pants?” she asked. I did a quick scan for food stains. I couldn’t find anything. She pointed. “That thingie on the back of your pants...” I looked in the mirror and saw what she was referring [...]
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 [...]
The Tao of Fertility By Daoshing Ni, DOM, LAc, PhD and Dana Herko Collins, 2008 Reviewed by Natalie D-Napoleon Daoshing Ni (better known as Dr. Dao) draws on his ancestral experience as a healer (belonging to seventy-four generations of masters) and his skill as an acupuncturist to present a holistic approach to conception [...]
The Essential Low Back Program: Relieve Pain and Restore Health Robin Rothenberg Pacific Institute Yoga Therapy Reviewed by Felicia M. Tomasko, RN What does it mean for a therapeutic Yoga CD set to state that its effects are clinically proven? For Rothenberg’s Essential Low Back Program, the endorsement refers to Karen Sherman’s much-lauded [...]
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 [...]