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 [...]
