Chant-4-Change Sets The Nation’s Capital Alight January 20, 2009. It was a day that will not soon be forgotten: Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Only one day earlier, on Martin Luther King, Jr Day, some four hundred yogis, yoginis, and those with a general taste for the [...]
Golden Bridge Yoga in Hollywood was once the Cadillac dealer where Elvis shopped. Then it became the sound stage where Old Blue Eyes, Johnny Mathis and Barbra Streisand did their sound checks before it transcended the confines of the entertainment industry and fixed its gaze on a more enlightened path. “We didn’t pick [...]
Sitting Down With Tassajara Director David Zimmerman In September I traveled to Tasajara and spoke with David Zimmerman, one of the “Tassajara Five,” the four men and one woman who were instrumental in defending the monastery against the Basin Complex Fire. We sat and talked beneath a leafy tree in two yellow chairs [...]
My daughter was sitting on my bed when I returned home from a Yoga class. “What’s that on your pants?” she asked. I did a quick scan for food stains. I couldn’t find anything. She pointed. “That thingie on the back of your pants...” I looked in the mirror and saw what she was referring [...]
Feel Your True Colors Energetic Chakra image courtesy of Vyana The word chakra means wheel, denoting movement. Your chakras are vortexes, spiritual focal points and wheels of energy. When awakened they transfer prana (vital life-force energy) throughout your body to nourish your physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. When a chakra is moving effectively, [...]
Practice Pages: Meditation This is the third installment in an ongoing column focused on meditation practices in different traditions. I am often asked about what Zen can teach us about the intimate personal relationships that play such an important role in all our lives. When our walls are down, we are more in touch with [...]
The Tao of Fertility By Daoshing Ni, DOM, LAc, PhD and Dana Herko Collins, 2008 Reviewed by Natalie D-Napoleon Daoshing Ni (better known as Dr. Dao) draws on his ancestral experience as a healer (belonging to seventy-four generations of masters) and his skill as an acupuncturist to present a holistic approach to conception [...]
My platform has always been one of Mindfulness and raising awareness on a subtle level…the type of awareness that if we all made small changes to our daily routine we could generate massive changes. Living in a city, we become accustomed to trash lining the streets. Taking a quick look around, it is [...]
Psychiatrist and intuitive Judith Orloff is simultaneously passionate, endearing and down to earth when she talks about how to navigate the often rocky bramble patch that is our emotional processes. In all of her books, she offers practical suggestions on how to tap into our intuitive abilities and to negotiate the emotional journey of [...]
Feel Your True Colors The word chakra means wheel, denoting movement. Your chakras are vortexes, spiritual focal points and wheels of energy. When awakened they transfer prana (vital life-force energy) throughout your body to nourish your physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. When a chakra is moving effectively, it circulates energy to the area it governs, [...]