Why festivals satisfy our spiritual longing By Derek Beres Late every summer, 60,000 weekend (or week-long) warriors pack RVs with pimped-out bicycles, florescent pink and orange wardrobes, goggles, bandanas and whatever other accoutrement assist them in not only surviving but thriving in Nevada’s summer heat. They fly into Reno and San Francisco and Vegas and […]
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 […]
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?
In the Tradition of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi & Hasan Lutfï Shushud By Nevit O. Ergin Published by Inner Traditions Review by Mac Graham Nevit O. Ergin mingles his cryptic contemporary Sufi short stories with sayings of master Hasan Lutfï Shushud and the immortal verses of Rumi to reveal the barest essence of the Itlak Sufi […]
L.A.’s only community based choir sings an eclectic mix in diverse venues
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 […]
Marianne Williamson envisions her campaign as “a collective act of love and a stand for possibility.”
Marianne is such a household name that Newsweek magazine recently referred to her as a “guru,” missing the mark in their predictably mainstream way.
Directed by Dana Walden and Straw Weisman Dreaming Heaven follows the real-life journey of a group of people through a matrix of temples and plazas in the Mexican ruins of Teotihuacán. Their tumultuous physical, spiritual and emotional path—narrated in the film by Mila Maren as the Angel of Death—opens them to a whole new world. […]
Directed by Sebastian Siegel The current trend in documentary filmmaking of interviewing luminaries in the “conscious living” field for their opinion or expertise on one thing or another has become a bit tired. However, in Awakening World, director/writer Sebastian Siegel drew from a much more diverse group, most of whom would not be considered expert […]