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9/4 Quote: “Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most.” -Ashleigh Brilliant

Our Mindset Determines Our Luck

We recently blogged about a Q & A from The Atlantic on awareness and attention span in modern society. The interviewee, Linda Stone said makes the point that cultivating a relaxed state of presence leads to what we perceive as “good luck.” Stone points to an experiment: “A U.K. psychologist ran experiments in which he divided self-described lucky […]

Innovative Teacher Shares 7 Meditation Secrets

Awesome interview with Charlie Knoles, one of the most revered meditation teachers in the West.

9/3 Destination: Santorini, Greece

9/3 Art: Dr. Seuss

Top 10 Colleges for Yoga in the US

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 […]

Should Everyone Learn To Code?

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 […]

How to Find your Passion – It’s Not Where You Think!

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 […]

9/3 Quote: Love and do not expect others to change.

9/2 Travel: Penang, Malaysia

9/2 Art: Rising Sun by Arakawa Toyozo

9/2 Quote: Jonathan Smith

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” ~Jonathan Smith

Q & A with Linda Stone on Presence in Modern Society

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 […]

Meditation Master Charlie Knoles Demonstrates Alternate Nostril Breathing

8/30 Quote: Guillaume Apollinaire

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ~Guillaume Apollinaire

Yoga Books and More: A Reading List Fit for a Yogi – Intent Blog

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 […]

You Make Me Feel Good (Original Mix)

Twitter Co-Creator Ev Williams Stretches the Medium

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 […]

Paz Brian 600 x 400 photos

8/28 Travel: Philadelphia, PA

SuZen Yoga: Yoga and the Art of Happiness

“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 […]

Why This Life+Changing Link Got 1,000,000+ Shares

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 […]

8/27 Art: Ran Ortner’s Open Water

“Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.” – B.G.

Finding More on the Mat — A Book Review by Kate Bartolotta

“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 […]

Cancer Survivors Sleep Better With Yoga

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 […]

8/26 Art: Miso Media App

8/26 Destination: Positano, Italy

Malcolm Gladwell Defending the 10,000 Hour Rule

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 […]

David Icke – Breaking The Spell & The Full Magnitude of Who We Are

8/26 Quote: Christopher Isherwood on Living in a Big City

“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 […]

9 Tips to Avoid Distracted Living and Become Mindful

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 […]

Soon to be 50 Year Anniversary: MLK Jr’s I Have A Dream Speech – Full Text

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 […]

Beautiful Rendition of Ashtanga Yoga Opening Mantra

Sharath in Stockholm Last Week

  Picture by Bill Brundell. First seen on PeaceLoveYoga

3 Things You Didn’t Know About Tea and China

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 […]

8/22 Destination: Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, USA

8/22 Art: John Knuth: Fly Paintings

Al Jazeera America airs more climate coverage in one day, than other networks have in four months.

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 […]