Ayurvedic Suggestions To Put A Spring In Your Step Wherever Your Wanderlust Takes You MOVEMENT, EXCITEMENT, new places and new experiences: If we enjoy the unexpected and the adventure, we may love to travel, to reconnect with people or discover new frontiers. Whether we dread packing a suitcase or can’t wait to get out the [...]
Review of the Global Drum Project at UCLA It was a percussion aficionado’s dream when the stage of UCLA’s Royce Hall filled with the Global Drum Project. Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart and tabla master Zakir Hussain were joined by Puerto Rican percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo and Nigerian drummer Sikiru Adepoju. Knowing the experience and historical significance [...]
Media Reviews : Film Tranquil and fashionably bohemian filmmaker Philippe Caland is passionate about communicating spiritual and provocative messages. His latest film, Ripple Effect, in which he embarked on the daunting task of writing, directing, producing and starring, has arnered awards and acclaim at festivals across the country. It is the second in a spiritual [...]
There really is no department within our government that looks at alternatives to war and violence. This is a department whose time has come.” U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland We have a State Department. A Defense Department. A Department of Homeland Security. Why don’t we have a Department of Peace? It’s an idea gaining momentum [...]
China’s authorities have cracked down on Tibetans after protests this spring raged across the Tibetan plateau. The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy estimates that 6,500 Tibetans have been arrested since March. Hundreds of others have reportedly been removed from their homes and taken to undisclosed locations. In July, police and security personnel conducted [...]
Pack for Burning Man to Eat a Peach on Day Five on the Playa Whether you’re packing for a week in the counterculture fest of Burning Man (where for one week, Nevada’s third largest and most ephemeral city is created in the Black Rock Desert) or a family-based backcountry adventure, planning ahead and [...]
Namaste And Other Traditions With A Future Rishikesh, Northern India. The stories Paramahansa Yogananda tells about running around in these hills in his youth are filled with miracles of higher consciousness: levitating swamis, meditators who could subdue man-eating tigers through the power of the mind, saints who appear and disappear at will and mystics with [...]
JUNK sails to bring awareness to the scourge of plastic polluting the world’s waters On June 20, a Coast Guard plane flew over the most unusual seagoing craft the crew had ever seen. The vessel’s name: JUNK. It’s a ship that truly lives up to its name as it is predominantly made up of the [...]
Ayurvedic Suggestions To Put A Spring In Your Step Wherever Your Wanderlust Takes You MOVEMENT, EXCITEMENT, new places and new experiences: If we enjoy the unexpected and the adventure, we may love to travel, to reconnect with people or discover new frontiers. Whether we dread packing a suitcase or can’t wait to get out the [...]