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...
Goals versus Intentions
Recently a friend, who is also a yoga teacher in training and mid-stream in cancer treatment, shared her intentions with me. A few days later she remarked that since the road to hell...
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