By Cindy Tansin I’ve had dogs all my life. Living in the city, their primary form of “exercise” was going outside in the back yard to do their business and watch the world go by. I figured my dogs were living the good life. What more could they possibly want besides food and love? When I […]
The postures, breathing practices and meditations are all ways to plumb the depths of erotic mystery.
I have an accumulation of mucus in my throat that I just can’t ignore, so every few minutes I have to swallow and it sounds ridiculously loud in the silence. Can everyone in the meditation room hear me?
The hopeful yoga of blended families By Bahar Anooshahr I pull the door forcefully. It dings open. Thank God. I made it just in the nick of time. I am escaping life, his children, his ex-wife and my confused mind into the arms of hot yoga. Perhaps the heat will melt my thoughts and body […]
Measurable benefits, no side effects and low cost make music an ideal therapeutic option By Shari Cohen “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” ~Maya Angelou During his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, when pediatric physician Raffi Tachdjian was searching for a way to accelerate healing in his young patients, inspiration came in […]
Shayna Saide LaBeouf’s mystical, visual poems By Stephanie du Tan When art speaks to us directly and moves us profoundly, we find that the personal is universal and the universal is personal. Personal experience leads to the discovery of universal truths, and the transcendent in turn illuminates our present. This dialectic is at work in […]
It’s not always easy to spot a winner By Martha Crawford It was spring of 1954 when I swept through the historic Sunset Route Railway Station on East Commerce Street in San Antonio, Texas, pausing only long enough to retrieve a dog-eared copy of Sunset magazine that had been cast aside. Rushing to board the […]
By Laura G. Owens Blame your parents if you must, but a study that followed 3,000 subjects from age 12 to 32 to determine if relationship with parents influences future romantic connections, results showed—no surprise—that it does, whether it’s harmonious or rocky. No need to worry, however; breaking attitudes and behaviors begins with tuning in. […]
“The problem is turning off the fire hydrant,” explains Richard; in other words, ending the continual flow. “The thing we do is make people aware that there is all of this plastic.”
Relationships are supposedly about honesty and communication, but something is amiss By Suzanne Harrington We’re 30 years past the projected date, but George Orwell would still nod knowingly at the Big Brother-style revelations of Edward Snowden. The fact that we’re being snooped on has caused widespread indignation, but the truth is that many of us […]