The Art of Beginning

The Art of Beginning: Tips for when you find yourself facing a new challenge

Change can cause anxiety. The first day at a new job, going on a first date, having your first child – every such change in your life creates a new beginning. And being a beginner is one of the hardest challenges you can face.

With beginnings comes risk. While everyone’s life is filled with beginnings – both large and small – many people have trouble allowing themselves to take a risk.
By definition, a risk never lies within your comfort zone. Often, however, comfort zones can mask the feeling of what it means to really be alive. Read more

Actions of Faith

What would you do today if you were certain that God was taking care of you?
 
You would certainly smile. Is it possible to smile even through adversity? It almost seems sacrilege to smile when life seems to not smile. Which is a true reflection? Do you have to smile first before life smiles back at you and how long do you need to smile before contentment and ease arrive? Perhaps life is always smiling and the view of its smile is only seen through certain perspectives. If so, what might those perspectives be? What perspective shift do you need  to allow the smile of life? Read more

Puppy Dog Stretch Yoga-At-Your-Desk Series

The Puppy Dog stretch is good for your shoulders, back, and hamstrings. It will rejuvenate you from head to toe!

Stand up facing your desk and have the front of your body up against the edge of your desk. Place your palms down till they reach the edge of the desk. Place your arms shoulder distance apart and your feet hip distance apart. Ideally, the height of your desk should be more or less hip level. Now, walk your legs back until your hips are in line with your heels and you create a flat back. Keep the arms straight and draw the shoulder blades down the back. Lengthen the spine and sitting bones. Stretch the front of the thighs towards the back of thighs. Read more

Women’s Yoga

An Interview of Mark Whitwell by kyle roderick

Kyle Roderick: What asana can women do at different points of the day when they are at work or at home to remedy anxiety, restlessness or that spaced-out feeling?

Mark Whitwell: Although there is no substitute for a yoga practice somewhere in the day, to support this by some light moving and breathing randomly in the day routine is supremely helpful.

For a few moments move and breath with the arms raised inhaling and arms lowered exhalation. This is the exacting process of strength receiving, the healing of our system. Simply to move and breathe with light postures correctly designed for each person. Forward bends and twists accompanied by exhalation serve the releasing of stress and anxiety. They are strengthening and healing to our Life, while the inhalation is refreshing, receptive and restorative. Read more

New Wave of Healing

the new wave of healing meditation: kirtan kriya
Besides feeling blissful, relaxation is a medical fact. Thirty-odd years ago, Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson, M.D. identified and scientifically confirmed what happens during the Relaxation Response, namely: heart rate slows down, brain waves slow down and move into theta, or the state of creative flow that is often only accessed when dreaming. The stress hormone cortisol stops flowing and natural feel-good, painkilling hormones such as endorphins are released.

Today, the medical aspects of various types of meditation are an emerging area of research. The first study of Kirtan Kriya kundalini yoga meditation by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. and the Tucson-based Alzheimers Prevention Foundation International has recently discovered that this 12-minute meditation confers powerful cognitive benefits. Read more

Outdoor Yoga

written by ed moffett

My favorite way to do yoga is to go out to some beautiful place in nature where I can express yoga interactively with the natural symmetries around me.

Since every system of yoga has variations of the definition, it’s important to have some flexibility in our concept of what yoga is. Let’s face it- going to a yoga class involves a lot of work to prepare, travel, arrive at a certain time, position yourself in the studio room, participate in the class, pack up and go home. For many people, yoga class is the only time they ever do yoga, and some of us have a lot of resistance to the commitment. Others attempt a home “practice” where they follow a prescribed series of postures, duplicating what they learned in class. Read more

The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita

written by staff

An Introduction to India’s Universal Science of God-Realization — New Book By Paramahansa Yogananda

“We came from God and our ultimate destiny is to return to Him. The end and the means to the end is yoga, the timeless science of God-union.” Read more

Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

written by deepak chopra

When ancient peoples considered the vastness of the universe, they felt something very surprising, they felt connected, a spiritual connection cannot be seen or touched, yet we have a way to verify invisible things by using a faculty more powerful and reliable than the five senses’ consciousness. Read more

The Bridge of Choice

written by jared rosen and david rippe

Imagine yourself standing on a bridge between two worlds. On one side of the bridge is an upside-down world. Why is it upside-down? It is upside-down because people have lost their intimate connection to the whole, and feel isolated and separate from society. Even their thoughts are fragmented. Read more

Self-love

written by ria ray

I am a woman, a mother, a healer and a business consultant. In my many roles, I have found that the key to most difficulties in becoming more aware and experiencing bliss lives in something very basic: Self-love.  Yet self-love is often very difficult for us to practice throughout our lives.

self-love is the key to meaningful living, the only way into spirit; self-love generates and breathes life into spirit. Read more

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