Long Weekend at the Beach: Bocas Del Toro Travel Blog – Panama

Bocas Del Toro Travel: Our Third Stop Bocas Del Toro is a province of Northern Panama that is made up of lots of small islands located on the Caribbean Sea. This was our third stop in our four month journey. We arrived here after spending time in the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica and Boquete in Northern Panama. While […]

Finding Your Flow: 6 Steps for a New Morning Routine

Find Your Flow: Suggestions for a new morning routine People talk a lot about “flow.” Psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi proposed the concept decades ago—a state of mind achieved when you’re fully immersed in a project or task—but the basic tenants of flow date back to the teachings of Taoism and Buddhism.  As the Buddha tells us, “Do not dwell […]

Circumstances may change, but the urge to control and dominate takes on different forms.

Meditation Teachers Reveal Their Favorite Ways To Meditate

One of the best parts of a meditation practise is learning new techniques. There are so many different pranayamas or breathing exercises. We try to document different techniques so we can go back to them whenever the moment is right. PsychCentral and Margarita Tartakovsky put together a nice write up recently on how different teachers techniques. […]