Happy New…
For many this is the time of year when we look forward and look back, wish a “Happy New Year” upon others and ourselves, and reflect upon changes, what we’d like to change in ourselves, or “resolve to improve,” all dipping into the sense of renewal, of fresh start-ness, of a cycle beginning anew. Which [...]
Yoga and Occupy Wall Street
Re: Day of Action targeting Banks October 15th, Occupy Wall Street [feel free to share freely, post it, past it on... please discuss, comment, critique.] Before I am capitalist or anti-capitalist I am human, before I am Tea Party or Democrat I am human, before I am the 53% or the 99% I am human. [...]
Yoga as Coaching: Personality, temperament, samskaras and change
Are we innately inclined to certain temperaments? Am I “Just the way I am” or is there choice in change, discernment in action and impulse? Both Yoga and Science explore these questions and arrive at similar conclusions. The persistent nature and nurture interplay continues to evolve in our understanding. A recent article in Psychotherapy Networker [...]
Beyond Tribal: On Empathy, Wholeness, Yoga & Vedanta [books, J. Rifkin, video]
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For some years now I have been pondering ‘identity’ as I study and seek to practice Yoga and Vedanta. Identity meaning sense of self – in community, in society, in relation to spirit and divinity, in relation to our apparent tribal nature.
Yoga and Vedanta teach the nature of Wholeness, brahma vidya, knowledge of Brahman, and the practice of karma yoga…
Recent studies in neuroscience, psychology and behavior point to empathy and compassion being strong biological drivers[...]
Pepsi’s Nutrition blog inspires protest departures at Science Blog
Several scientist are removing their blogs from Seed Media’s Science Blog in response to a sponsored ‘nutrition’ blog by Pepsico wrote Columbia Journalism Review today. As publishing morphs with the times, as traditional credible print sources fall or adapt, as authorship and intellectual property shift with open sharing and free publishing, as we are glutted [...]
The Healing Wonders and Joys of Tulsi, Indian ‘basil’ [guest, book, buy tea]
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GUEST Wellness Provider: Mahendra aka Briksha Ayurveda, Yoga Instructor and Coach www.Rays-mandala.org An invitation to learn proper breathing: Sunday, July 11th, Friday, 16th and Saturday, 24th, 6.00pm-.9.00pm Indian Live Food Prep class-1 of Series I – Cafe Gratitude Saturday, July 10 2010, 3:00pm – 6:00pm I am happy to have a piece from a colleague [...]
