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 name a famous yogini?(a female yoga follower). Or even one who is able to make a living studying and teaching yoga? We know that the history of modern postural yoga dates from the […]
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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 be seated or lying down, whichever they prefer. They may wish for you to dim the lighting in order to enhance the […]
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 in the brain when people shift from thinking about the standard responses to imagining the brick as an earring for a Giantess or a tombstone […]
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 for myself. Those old nagging questions come up like, “Who do you think you are?” Readers of Canadian fiction may recall Alice […]
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 of hair style, music or the colour of my lipstick. At 24, it meant moving to Africa. At 32, to the Canadian Prairies. I was clued-in sufficiently […]