DIY: Stoke Your Digestive Fire

We may look around at our friends or family members and complain to ourselves and each other. Why does our best friend, brother, wife or son get to eat so much more than we do? Why is it that one person gains weight on fresh air when another person can’t seem to hold onto extra [...]

By |2015-04-11T20:34:43-07:00August 24th, 2008|Ayurveda|0 Comments

The Gifts and Challenges of Empathy

Cultivate energy, boundaries and develop intuition. Whether you’ve always known that you’re an empathetic person, or only discovered this gift quite recently, you deeply sense and resonate with the emotions of others, which often results in you being connected to a wide variety of people, personalities, and situations. As a subject, empathy is rarely discussed [...]

By |2013-01-25T17:47:25-08:00August 23rd, 2008|Spirituality|0 Comments

Ayurveda Q & A

Ayurveda has been practiced in the U.S. for only about 30 years, yet it is a 5,000 year old Indian system of medicine and yoga’s sister science. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com Q: I am a 39-year-old overweight man with allergy symptoms (itchy eyes, dry throat, sinus congestion with [...]

By |2012-08-23T23:11:39-07:00August 23rd, 2008|Ayurveda|0 Comments

Postcards From Rishikesh

Namaste And Other Traditions With A Future Rishikesh, Northern India. The stories Paramahansa Yogananda tells about running around in these hills in his youth are filled with miracles of higher consciousness: levitating swamis, meditators who could subdue man-eating tigers through the power of the mind, saints who appear and disappear at will and mystics with [...]

By |2015-04-11T20:38:44-07:00July 26th, 2008|Travel|0 Comments

Teacher Profile: Aviva Winocur Erlick

Gentle Jewish Yoga Five years ago, Avivah Winocur Erlick was married, held a job as a newspaper editor at the California Real Estate Journal and was attending the same Jewish services and having the same experiences since her childhood, where she grew up practicing Reform Judaism in a secular household. Yet she was simultaneously and [...]

By |2015-04-11T20:39:30-07:00July 26th, 2008|Teacher Profiles|0 Comments

Seasonal Cleanse: Jump-Start Body, Mind and Spirit

According to Ayurveda, seasonal changes are times of both vulnerability and opportunity, when we can release the past season’s accumulated buildup. Cleansing can jump-start our health: body, mind and spirit. I’ve wanted to do a cleanse for years, and considered joining some friends for the mutual camaraderie of a group master cleanse (lemon juice, cayenne [...]

By |2013-11-30T20:58:45-08:00July 26th, 2008|Detox & Cleanse|0 Comments

Shhh?. I?m Meditating

Max Simon and the Self-Centered Tour How do you inspire one million young people to meditate? Make it sexy. Make it cool. Tall order? Maybe. But such is the clear intention of Max Simon, founder of the selfcentered tour and son of Julia Simon, Transcendental Meditation teacher and Vedic astrologer, and Dr. David Simon, co-founder [...]

By |2015-04-11T20:41:56-07:00July 23rd, 2008|Meditation|0 Comments

Yapping with Herbal Medicine Leader David Crow

talkin' ‘bout sports medicine, herbs for young people and healing the earth David Crow, author of In Search of the Medicine Buddha, is an acupuncturist and herbalist who travels the world supporting a vision of grassroots healthcare, sustainable use of botanical medicine and restoration of global ecology through indigenous systems of healing including Chinese medicine and [...]

By |2015-04-11T20:43:42-07:00July 23rd, 2008|Ayurveda|0 Comments

Kids Yoga At The Salvation Army

Yoga Angels Teach Hope On The Mat Getting on a yoga mat represents hope for many, and at the Westwood Salvation Army, the yoga of hope takes on new meaning. The Salvation Army is home for families and people who are transitioning in their lives and coping with challenges including homelessness, living in shelters, rebuilding [...]

By |2012-08-23T02:40:16-07:00July 23rd, 2008|Kids Yoga|0 Comments
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