By Jessica Thomas It was a moment borne of dreams when Carrie Janell Hamner was hired at the age of 21 to be one of the Rockettes who make their home in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. The precision dance group is an American entertainment institution. Carrie was hired on the spot (a [...]
By Felicia Marie Tomasko Dr. David Simon MD, board-certified neurologist, champion of the healing power of Yoga and Ayurveda, and co-founder (with Dr. Deepak Chopra) of the famed Chopra Center, passed away on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. His words, speech, healing presence, medical practice, books, and classes touched many in the 61 years of his [...]
A Meditation with The Flame Mantra from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra I hate winter. Always have. Let me count the ways: There is less daylight. You have to wear more clothes - more than just surf shorts and a T-shirt. Sunset happens while you are still inside at work. Other people love winter, and have [...]
A meditation on seeing God everywhere inspired by The Radiance Sutras, a new version of the vijnana bhairava tantra Minds wander. That’s what they do. Attention is dynamic by nature, always on a Quest. Hearts are always looking for love. The heart, by design, longs to be in the rhythm of giving and receiving. In [...]
With age comes great wisdom and experience, but as we know, the stability of spirit can, at times, be accompanied by immobility in the body and a false belief that movement and exercise should be left to the young. Stretch in Time, a new Yoga DVD created by Elyse Briggs, addresses a population that may [...]
Billy Asad begins at the edge and pushes on from there. A student of Yoga since the early1990s, Asad has made space at Los Angeles’ YogaWorks for nearly a decade. When he brings his practice to the people, his classes are always mat-to-mat with devoted students. Part guru, part coach, Asad has the ability to [...]
Brought together by crisis, reunited by gratitude The space between life and death is tenuous. No one knows, from one minute to the next, what might befall them. I don’t remember exactly how I felt on the morning of September 17, 1986. I do know that it felt special because it was my fourteenth birthday. [...]
Every year Yoga transforms the lives of hundreds of average Americans. But in 2011 a significant number of yogi writers opened up their hearts to reveal their own intimate journey. They chronicled their experience with pen in hand, sharing their challenges, triumphs, and insights along the way through Yoga-inspired memoirs. And it seems that these [...]
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. Question: Beginning three weeks before the clocks changed in the Fall, I’ve been overeating [...]
They say follow your bliss but I say follow your pain. Because I’m starting to notice that when I follow my pain, then my bliss follows me. This happened recently with my arm pain. The pain had become so bad that at the end of class, sitting in final cross-legged position, instead of [...]