Joshua Tree Music Festival May 15 - 17 Joshua Tree Music Festival has teamed with SPACESHARE, a noteworthy carpooling website, unifying summer festival-goers and offering them opportunities to meet new friends, reduce their carbon footprint and save money on gas. Performers include Holland’s “must-see live band,” Kraak & Smaak, as well as LA-based Underground Orchestra, [...]
Timeless Wisdom From The Dalai Lama For Challenging Times It was a drizzly morning as I walked up to Thunderdome, the basketball stadium at University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) to attend a day of teachings with the His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Once inside, I looked around to see that not all 3,000 [...]
Master of Brain "Techknowledgey" ILCHI LEE DOESN’T SEEM a likely entertainer. The mastermind behind a movement called Brain Education is serious business and rarely makes public presentations. So when he takes the stage at a hotel in Koreatown the brain philosopher-educator plays to a capacity crowd. Ilchi Lee is operating from the premise that, “Humanity, [...]
Chaos, Change, Identity, Yoga And Hope The economy, global conflict and the swine flu are only a few of the constant messages of uncertainty that can haunt us. It can be overwhelming if we take in too many of these images. We do have a choice. According to the teachings and philosophy of Yoga our [...]
Finding Bliss Through Community And Chant Saturday, 11:45 P.M., the Pod nightclub, Dublin. It’s been twenty-five minutes since my boyfriend and I dropped E and washed it down with Bacardi and Coke before switching to water (alcohol dilutes E’s clean high). We’re waiting to “come up,” we’re waiting for the high to kick in. We [...]
Daniel Stewart If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out “MUSIC IS ONE OF THE FIRST WAYS that we worshipped God,” says Daniel Stewart, co-owner, with Claire Hartley, of Rising Lotus Yoga in Sherman Oaks. “The emotional vibrations of sound speak directly to our soul.” A Yoga teacher, retreat facilitator, kirtan leader and [...]
Finding Storytelling Through Community And Voice Walk out on stage, take a deep breath and start telling a story. When standing exposed beneath the spotlight, even though the house lights are dim, it’s still possible to make out faces in the audience. The seats are filled with both friends and strangers; they’re a community, whom [...]
ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS, there are 100 billion galaxies in the universe, and around 100 billion stars in each galaxy, including our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Our Sun is just one fairly mediocre star at the edge of it. And this universe is continuing to expand infinitely. As is the macrocosm, so is the microcosm: [...]
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 an addiction to alcohol. I have had a very turbulent past [...]
Yoga had me at the first hellom. I love the asana practice, but it’s the chanting and oming and mantras that soothe the savage Beth. Maybe it’s because I’m a professional talker that I find it especially hard to turn off the chatter. For me, freedom’s just another word for nothing left to [...]