Constructing The Yogi’s Journey Geoffrey’s journey of discovering the deeper practices of Yoga is a familiar one; with its different iterations, it could almost be called the Yogi’s Journey, a variation of the Hero’s Journey. His journey goes like this: While working construction in San Francisco, in 1997, he began experiencing problems with [...]
Sutra 16, Verse 39 From the Radiance Sutras, A New Translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra The universe is an expanding shout of joy. A jam session is vibrating throughout creation – tune in. Feel it humming in your body. Hear it in the sounds of nature all around you. Listen to the deep, blissful [...]
Kundalini Yoga at Golden Bridge in Hollywood Kundalini Yoga in Spanish at Golden Bridge Yoga. Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. $8 Suggested Donation. Each class includes instruction in yoga, a meditation and a deep relaxation. All levels welcome. Kundalini Yoga is a science that uses breathing techniques, chanting, body movements and meditation to get you [...]
Dr. Sarita Shresta 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. Question: I have stage four endometriosis with adhesions on my bowel. I was operated on using laporoscopy three times. I am [...]
Amma Sri Karunamayi Beloved by many, giver of blessings, teacher of mantra and meditation, spiritual teacher Amma Sri Karunamayi embodies the grace of the divine mother. She has been teaching the philosophical and practical teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda to people in the cities where she stops and visits. LA YOGA had the [...]
The Interdependence of Individual Healing One night I went to bed healthy and strong. Then I woke up in the wee hours of the morning in inexplicable agony, crooked and folded in on myself, my spine screaming in cosmic tongues of ancient rage, my left arm curiously immobile. This was two years ago, when an [...]
Far below the cloud forests of the Peruvian Andes, downriver from the place where the Ucayali and Marañón converge to form the headwaters of the Amazon, Orlando Chujandama Huazanga is calling the spirits to The New Rising Sun, a humble compound in a small village called Llucayanacu on banks of the Huallaga River where he [...]
Gypsy Yoga Anahatha Lara Sackey and Brian E. Plaster joined forces to create OLM, or Original Live Music for Original Live Movement. This unique gypsy Yoga studio travels around California sharing a one-of-a-kind Yoga experience. During the hour long Hatha-style practice, the OLM experience invites you to embrace all of your senses and encourages you [...]
One of my teachers describes the ultimate expression of a pose to his mostly beginning students with the phrase: In a perfect Yoga world. For instance he might say: In a perfect Yoga world, your head would meet your foot. On good days In a perfect Yoga world helps me see how even [...]
In like a lion, out like a lamb, or so we say. Yes, Spring is a time of changes, and the transition from Winter to Spring is one of the most stressful and challenging shifts we go through all year. In most areas, Winter, with its cold weather, gradually gives way to the increasing warmth [...]