The world is filled with many wonderful suggestions for meditation, one being the Jyothi Light meditation. Before practicing, I find it helpful to prepare. I like to light a white candle and sit comfortably. I’ve always made it a practice to sit on silk and wool as these have been found to reduce electromagnetic interference [...]
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. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com. Q: I have been having sharp pain in my stomach due to [...]
Remembering That You And The Planet Are One We don ’t practice Yoga to escape the world. Rather than drawing away from the changing and challenging world around us, I believe we practice so that we can live powerfully and harmoniously with all existence, regardless of what type of Yoga we do. The [...]
The Community Shows Up To Talk About Service, Committment And Giving Gift-giving is a way to share our love. As we head into the holiday season, we can consider our relationships with each other and with the Earth as we choose gifts of all kinds that perpetuate sustainable relationships. Joni Yung Cyclist / Yogi / [...]
Fusionartist, Mystic Painter and Teacher Gazing at any of Fusionartist Rassouli’s creative works provides a glimpse into the mystic loving eye with which he looks at the world. Rassouli has been a celebrated and innovative painter since childhood who later trained as an architect. Born in Isfahan, Iran, and currently living in Southern [...]
Imagine that your elected representatives came to an art gallery in your neighborhood, and demanded, under threat of violence, that an exhibit be closed down because it contained photos that were upsetting to the Chinese government. That’s exactly what happened in October this year in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The prestigious Drik Gallery had [...]
Amy Wong’s Fave Five Experiences This year, the the whimsical Ojai Yoga Crib, hosted by Kira Ryder, Alana Mitnick, Uschi Gibson and the twinkle-eyed staff at Lulu Bandha’s celebrates the seventh annual event. Attendees sign up for a selection of teachers who offer their experiential classes in settings throughout Ojai, such as Krotona/the Theosophical Society [...]
Consciousness As the Portal to the Absolute Stephen Wolinsky is a direct student of Nisargadatta Maharaj, the author of I Am That, a book which swept the community of consciousness in the 1970s and still has a strong influence today on those who are seeking. The path Nisargadatta Maharaj taught is Advaita Vedanta. As Wolinsky [...]
Creating Community To Mobilize Activism and Transformation In The Hope: a Guide to Sacred Activism, Andrew Harvey defines Sacred Activism as a force of compassion in action destined to midwife the birth of a new humanity able to co-create with the Divine a new world. According to Harvey, “This great birth will have to come [...]
Twenty-Three Years of Forming Fellowship And Promoting Possibility The word agape has its origins in the Greek language, in which it means love. One of the meanings of agape in English is love. Not just any kind of love: Unconditional love, compassionate love, brotherly or sisterly love, love of God and even the [...]