Community : Seen & Heard Cha-Ching: Swapping The Mind For A Song Wednesdays Through December 15! Having been hit hard on the head by the Woo Woo Fairy’s weighty wand early on (at birth), I’m already a member of the striving-towards-awakening choir to which Beth Lapides is not really ever preachin’ in her frolicking [...]
Yonnus Becker, Photo: Jean Kim The Sun Beckons To This Venice Local On a beautiful autumn afternoon, the sun sparkled on the vibrant streets of the Venice thoroughfare, familiar faces wandered about as a feeling of calm permeated the air. The years have seen drifters and ramshackle huts give way to luxury homes [...]
The Sanskrit word santosha means contentment. Contentment is a slippery idea: If we say that we are not content, or feeling discontented, there are those who will look upon us as being ungrateful, or needing to work harder. If we say that we are content, there is sometimes the illusion of complacency. How can [...]
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait Karma Yoga In Action In his evococative biography, Touched by Fire: The Ongoing Journey of a Spiritual Seeker, teacher Pandit Rajmani Tigunait PhD describes his own path of spiritual seeking and questioning, of meeting his spiritual teacher, Swami Rama, and the great benefits that can come from living the contemplative [...]
Question: I crave hot and spicy foods and seem to need them to stimulate my digestive fire. The problem is that they aggravate my hot flashes. Is there anything I can do for my hot flashes that will not dampen my digestive fire? Answer: I presume from your question that you are in your perimenopausal stage of [...]
Our sense of hearing is a vital part of who we are, how we relate to the world, and on a spiritual level it is a vital part of how we relate to the Divine. Unfortunately, as we age our ability to hear typically begins to decline and as a result, so too does the [...]
These colorful produce items all peak in Southern California in November, providing a gorgeous bounty for your Thanksgiving table. Ayurveda divides the world among three primary doshas or seasons – vata (Fall into the early part of Winter), pitta (Summer) and kapha (late Winter into Spring) and we in the West tend to [...]
Free Yoga For Children With Special Needs What have I been put here to do? It’s a question I asked after recently seeing Wayne Dyer speak. It has become clear that I am here to inspire and to heal, through teaching Yoga, and even more importantly, through giving back. Through seva. My sister wrote the [...]
Yoga in the Fashion District THE YOGA PLACE is located in the California Market Center in the heart of Downtown LA’s Fashion District. “Knowing there are few studios in the area, I wanted to make Yoga accessible and mostly affordable to the community,” says studio owner, Denise Waling. The Yoga Place is a quaint and [...]
“The future of sustainability is in our cities and towns. Urban neighborhoods are ideal for the promise and potentials of permaculture design. Our cities embody the greatest concentration of the social, intellectual and physical resources needed to create a sustainable system.” - Larry Santoyo. EarthFlow Design Works. Vice President of the Permaculture Institute. Permaculture (named [...]