Innovative Teacher Shares 7 Meditation Secrets
Awesome interview with Charlie Knoles, one of the most revered meditation teachers in the West.
Awesome interview with Charlie Knoles, one of the most revered meditation teachers in the West.
The Top 10 Colleges for Yoga: 10. Ball State University, Muncie, IN: often quoted in Yoga Journal, home to an annual wellness summit that includes Laughter Yoga, and blocks from Lotus Alternative Pain Center. Well played, Muncie. 9. Pratt, Brooklyn, NY: more than just an elective PE credit or fitness program, Pratt sees yoga as part […]
If you aren’t dreaming of becoming a programmer—and therefore planning to embark on a lengthy course of study, whether self-directed or formal—I can’t endorse learning to code. Yes, it is a creative endeavor. At its base, it’s problem-solving, and the rewards for exposing holes in your thinking and discovering elegant solutions are awesome. I really […]
A piece of advice we often hear when it comes to being successful is to “follow our passion.” But before you can follow your passion, you have to find it. So where do you look for it? You may have sought out clues to your passion in things like personality inventories, self-help books or career […]
“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” ~Jonathan Smith
Interesting article on our attention habits, click here for full article JF: When people talk about attention problems in modern society, they usually mean the distractive potential of smartphones and so on. Is that connected to what you’re talking about in early-childhood development? LS: We learn by imitation, from the very start. That’s how we’re […]
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ~Guillaume Apollinaire
Yoga is great for stretching. If you do it enough, you can touch your toes and improve your parallel parking skills by twisting to see behind you. But, it’s also great for stretching and expanding things beyond your muscles—namely your mind. Through concentration and meditation, in particular, the mind becomes stronger and more agile, in […]
The Internet’s last decade and a half of development as a forum for short, zippy, and often snarky writing has taken place in large part on platforms built by Ev Williams. A farm boy from Clarks, Neb., Williams, 41, dropped out of the University of Nebraska and worked his way west to California, first as […]
“Happiness seems such a small thing when you have it, but when it’s gone you realise how big it really is.” Gorky The Yoga approach to happiness is holistic and involves the emotional art of healing the mind in order to bring change to the bodymind and emotions. Happiness with Yoga is a healing process. The Art of Happiness teaches […]
50 Life Tips and Secrets Ryan Calvert first shared this literature with Brian and Brian shared it with me. Jordan’s 50 Life Tips and Secrets changed my life. I shared it with hundreds of my college friends and friends and family from home too. The result was always overwhelmingly positive and often times “life changing.” I […]
“So who do I have to kill to get some Grace around here?” When Michelle asked if I wanted to read and review her book, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. There are plenty of yoga “memoirs” out there that seem to be little more than self-congratulatory storytelling and recycled pseudo-spiritual platitudes. But I […]
Approximately 30-90 percent of cancer survivors report impaired sleep quality after treatment. Now, new research is showing that yoga can help. A recent study found that a low-intensity yoga practice improved the quality of sleep for cancer survivors. The study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, involved 410 cancer survivors who were suffering […]
Gladwell and his “10,000 hour rule” from the book Outliers has been questioned by David Epstein in his new book The Sports Gene. Epstein says the study that’s the basis for Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule is flawed, the assertion that practice matters is meaningless, and your biological setup determines how much practice you need to put into a task to […]
“To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in […]
Texting while driving has killed thousands in the US and states have passed legislation to outlaw, “distracted driving.” I’m trying to reduce my own tendencies of “distracted living.” Although it’s not as deadly as distracted driving, distracted living can have negative consequences leading us to seek instant gratification instead of spiritual truths and causing us […]
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope […]
Picture by Bill Brundell. First seen on PeaceLoveYoga
3 Things You Didn’t Know About Tea and China Every other Wednesday night, my friend Jane from Hangzhou, China, meets a few of us at the local library for Mandarin Chinese lessons. It’s a small group, usually me, Jane, and Thomas. Thomas is a great guy who’s passionate about Mandarin and more advanced in his […]
On its first day on-air, Al Jazeera America aired almost half as much coverage as some network news programs did during the entire year 2012. Media Matters has the details: Al Jazeera America’s 30 minutes of climate coverage (about 24 minutes not including commercial breaks) represented nearly half of what was seen on all network nightly news programs in […]
What is the common thread between Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King? The common thread is the extreme love for people.
“Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.” ~Marcus Aurelius
Tim Goessling writes a cool piece for The Good Men Project describing a day adhering to Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule. I’d like to try this practice and see how much more I can get out of a day. Click to learn more on Benjamin Franklin’s daily practices.
Last night, our electrician came over to help install a sound system. His son Max is a smart, jovial 11 year old who lost his mother to cancer at a young age. Max usually chills on his iPad playing video games while his dad works his electronic magic in the basement. My friend and I […]
http://www.delightedmomma.com/2013/01/the-benefits-of-nutritional-yeast-10.html Paz and his girlfriend, Danielle, introduced me to a natural cheese and dairy replacement, nutritional yeast. It’s awesome. You can find it at Whole Foods. Here are some of the facts and benefits: So what exactly is nutritional yeast? Nutritional Yeast is deactivated yeast (not to be confused with Brewer’s yeast, which has a […]