People begin or continue to practice Yoga for a variety of reasons, some of which include recovery from an injury or illness, surviving cancer or recovery from addictions. YogaVibes, an online site for Yoga video classes and educational material, launched in August, 2009, houses RecoveryVibe, specifically addressing this issue. YogaVibes founder and visionkeeper Brian Ratté [...]
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Yoga Bear chose me. For quite some time, I had been talking about wanting to get involved in charity work. Talking about it and actually doing it are very different things. When my nephew Blaise was born three years ago with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a very rare [...]
“I do not know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to SERVE.” –– Albert Schweitzer We often describe people as having boundless energy or infectious enthusiasm. Yoga teacher, Karma Yogi and proprietor of the [...]
Constructing The Yogi’s Journey Geoffrey’s journey of discovering the deeper practices of Yoga is a familiar one; with its different iterations, it could almost be called the Yogi’s Journey, a variation of the Hero’s Journey. His journey goes like this: While working construction in San Francisco, in 1997, he began experiencing problems with [...]
Dr. Sarita Shresta 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. Question: I have stage four endometriosis with adhesions on my bowel. I was operated on using laporoscopy three times. I am [...]
Amma Sri Karunamayi Beloved by many, giver of blessings, teacher of mantra and meditation, spiritual teacher Amma Sri Karunamayi embodies the grace of the divine mother. She has been teaching the philosophical and practical teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda to people in the cities where she stops and visits. LA YOGA had the [...]
Herbal Teas are Travel Remedies Whether traveling for business or pleasure, across the country or across the globe, no one is exempt from the toils of travel. Even a short flight can leave us feeling out of sorts, carrying with it a wide variety of traveler’s symptoms – apparently not everything stays in Vegas. [...]
The Interdependence of Individual Healing One night I went to bed healthy and strong. Then I woke up in the wee hours of the morning in inexplicable agony, crooked and folded in on myself, my spine screaming in cosmic tongues of ancient rage, my left arm curiously immobile. This was two years ago, when an [...]
In like a lion, out like a lamb, or so we say. Yes, Spring is a time of changes, and the transition from Winter to Spring is one of the most stressful and challenging shifts we go through all year. In most areas, Winter, with its cold weather, gradually gives way to the increasing warmth [...]
After snubbing him during his Washington DC visit last October, President Obama finally met with the Dalai Lama on February 18th this year. Predictably, China’s leaders had warned of damage to Sino-US relations if the administration went ahead with the meeting (while making the rather bizarre claim that by doing so the U.S. [...]