Yoga offers guidelines along the path to increase healthy body awareness, intuitive eating, nutritional wisdom and food consciousness. We face a number of modern challenges in how we relate to food, health and our ability to nourish ourselves: population-wide increases in obesity and degenerative disease, increased amounts of processed food and reduced access to many [...]
California Law, Ayurveda and Complementary and Alternative Health The past few decades have seen an expansion in the practice of Ayurveda in California, yet the full practice and potential of this comprehensive medical system is not currently available in the current legal climate. Native to India, Ayurveda is a medical form developed during the Vedic [...]
An Introduction To India’s Universal Science Of God-Realization Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) is widely revered as one of the pre-eminent spiritual figures of our time. Born in northern India, he arrived in the United States in 1920, where for more than 30 years he taught the ancient science of yoga meditation and the art [...]
Many healing practitioners have shared with Me their bewilderment over assuming illnesses or conditions from their clients, especially when they truly felt that their intentions were ones of loving service to another. Why would a healer or anyone become ill through healing others? The answer is based on the Universal Law which states that any [...]
Peter Russell Seeking Consciousness And Finding Hope Revolutionary futurist, student of mathematics, physics, philosophy and consciousness, Peter Russell is a prolific writer and speaker whose articulate explanations of nonduality and insights into the conundrums of modern life and the nature of consciousness are impactful and provocative. Called an eco-philosopher extraordinaire, he is the [...]
Life these days can feel like it is always on-the-go, particularly during the whirlwind of back-to-school activities, juggling the schedule of daily life to fit in a Yoga practice, negotiating the demands of family and self as well as maybe getting ready to travel to a festival, fairground or picnic site. Setting up a healthy [...]
“Man…tra; Man- means ‘mind’; -tra means ‘to free’,” Vijay Krsna tells me. The young Hare Krishna devotee from the UK who was born to the sound of his father singing Om Namah Shivaya on his guitar wants to share a kirtan experience with one and all. “To call out and have someone open their heart [...]
Exploring The Divine In A Dive Bar “I just wanna melt away in all Its grace, drift away to that sacred place where there’s no more you and me, no more they and we, just unity” soulfully wails Trevor Hall on his single, “Unity.” This positive, hopeful and mystical perspective echoed in every Trevor Hall [...]
Vaastu Shastra, the ancient Vedic science of construction and architecture is a pre-Feng Shui, traditional Indian practice derived from knowledge dating back some 5,000 years. In Sanskrit, Vaastu means dwelling, Shastra means scientific treatise. Vaastu teaches us how to live in harmony with nature and influence nature for our benefit. The principals of Vaastu inform [...]
Respiratory diseases have become so common that everyone is likely to experience some form of breathing difficulty within a given year. Whether the symptoms are related to the common cold, respiratory infection or something more chronic such as allergies and asthma, or more serious such as emphysema or lung cancer, few people escape a [...]