From the guys at “HowStuffWorks.com”.  Love these guys – an interesting take and explanation.  Listen to “How Reincarnation Works.” [read more...]

An interesting NY Times article. IN one of his past lives, Dr. Paul DeBell believes, he was a caveman. The gray-haired Cornell-trained psychiatrist has a gentle, serious manner, and his appearance, together with the generic shrink décor of his office — leather couch, granite-topped coffee table — makes this pronouncement seem particularly jarring. Enlarge This [...] [read more...]

Courtesy of the Huffington Post. By Marianne Williamson I hear a lot of people say we have to wake people up… convince them of the urgency of this moment… make them realize that the planet is headed for disaster! But I don’t see it that way. Anybody who needs to be woken up at this [...] [read more...]

I always value Aadil’s perspective.  When we can learn to accept our participation in the problem, we will have the power to change our course. In Purna Yoga, everything — from the greatest disasters, to personal challenges, to the seeming insignificance of breaking a glass — must be viewed through the yogic perspective of cause [...] [read more...]

From the New York Times. Some food for thought: What is yoga?  What is your yoga community?  Does it reflect what you need?  As a side note, Yoga for the People, based on Gumucio’s model, is now here in Vancouver. ZEN is expensive. The flattering Groove pants, Lululemon’s answer to Spanx, may set Luluheads, the [...] [read more...]

I got disconnected three times. Three times. In a row. “Just hold one moment while we transfer you to confirm,” they’d say sweetly, just before I heard a strange sound.   The sound of silence.  The vacuum of a disconnected phone line.  The sound of my impotent, mediocre frustration growing to a boiling point of irrational, [...] [read more...]

Last Thursday evening, I attended a talk by Reginald Ray, founder of Dharma Ocean and tantric buddhist practitioner. He spoke about the intimacy and the power (and terror) of really Seeing another person. What is Seeing?  It’s when we strip away the filters through which we most often see the world and take the time [...] [read more...]

So it’s New Years. So you made a resolution. What is it this year? I’ll share my typical checklist: -lose five pounds -go to yoga EVERY DAY -finish writing book -resolve all unresolved psychological issues -do something really important that will make everyone love me Hmmmmm. Lofty, anyone? Resolutions are excellent.  They invite us to [...] [read more...]

The chakras can seem a little…well, out there.  Whirling wheels of energy?  Rainbow light?  Huh? But if we think about the body and its functions, the chakras do seem to match up pretty well to how we work. The root chakra – muladhara – is at our pelvic floor and deals with earth, downward energy, [...] [read more...]