Awake: The Life of Yogananda
When backlash in the press sent the yogi back to his homeland he noted with relief that, “It’s wonderful to walk among people who don’t need coaxing to be spiritual.”
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Donna De Lory: Universal Light
The resulting trance rhythms hypnotize the soul as they also propel listeners into ecstatic dance. An insistent rhythm on tunes like “Amma” and “Praying for Love” (a trippy arrangement that includes some of her most pop-influenced lyrics to date) makes it a challenge to sit still.
The Hidden Cause of Back Pain
How can you determine if the cause of your lower back pain is muscular? One simple step is to feel for the tissue emitting the pain.
Book—The Warrior’s Path
This insightful work can serve as a guide for the practicing yogi in rethinking ways of putting time-honored precepts into practice, in yoga and in life.
How Yoga Kept Me in an Unhealthy Relationship
I began to realize that the yogic principles and precepts I’d learned over the years—and shared regularly as a yoga teacher—actually encouraged me to stay in an unhealthy relationship much longer than its expiration date.
When a Spiritual Teacher Wants to Touch More Than Your Heart
The problem of spiritual teachers seducing or sexually exploiting their students tarnishes every spiritual tradition, in seemingly every culture.
Off the Pedestal and Onto the Mat
Aren’t yoga teachers supposed to be enlightened role models who know everything?
Where Breath and Beats Merge
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 […]
Yoga Practice as Erotic Art
The postures, breathing practices and meditations are all ways to plumb the depths of erotic mystery.
Escape into the Arms of Hot Yoga
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 […]