When I began to meditate I had the hope that I could explore some of the inner workings of my mind and find something of interest there. After all; meditation is simple, right? Simple?...
Creating Experiences
Experience, not mixed with wisdom, is a thin thing. ~ Unknown The Dalai Llama suggests that we do something new every year at the very least. My first spiritual teacher, a fierce Buddhist...
Active Wisdom In Aging Bodies
The fastest growing age-group coming to yoga is mid forties to sixties. Perhaps that is because Iyengar teaches yoga that anyone can do. Maybe you’ve had luck but are now facing...
True Confessions Time
For several years, as I studied and practiced yoga, I would find myself moving from a yoga pose into picking up a dust ball I’d spied while in headstand or transferring the laundry...
Yoga Radio Ripples
CHLY Volunteer Programmer Profiles How does a busy yoga instructor whose current practice exceeds 100 students a week manage to fulfill her responsibility to share her knowledge and...
Women and Yoga
Yoga has become a multibillion dollar industry, owned and operated primarily by women in the Americas. The unique history of this modern phenomenon is a story in itself. Can you...
Hypnotic Yoga Breathing Exercise
Here is a script for a breathing exercise that borrows some techniques from both yoga and hypnotherapy. Simply read this script in a very slow and calming way to a friend. They can...
The No-Fun Judge
Oshin Vartanian, a Toronto based neuroscientist, puts willing subjects into a brain scanner and asks a standard question, “What can you do with a brick?” He wants to see what happens...
You Have Come Here To Find What You Already Know
“You Have Come Here To Find What You Already Know” (attributed to the Buddha) I am closer to 66 than 65 and with that realization I quail sometimes at the challenges I have set...
Can You Spare Some Changes?
“There is nothing more radical than the moment when you realize you can reinvent your life.” – Durgananda When I was 14 years old, reinventing myself meant a change...
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