Life Hacks From India On How to Stay Cool

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by Gulrez Shah Azhar: (without an air conditioner)… In Uttar Pradesh, India, where I grew up, temperatures can soar as high as 120 degrees in May and June. But very few people have access to an air conditioner. With a per capita income of around a $1,000 a year, many people in this part of […]

3 Rules for Mindful Sex

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by Julie Peters: Want to be more mindful when it comes to sex? Try following these three rules…

Reaching Beyond The Mat

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by Chip Richards: We need to take those very qualities that we’re learning in the yoga room, and begin to truly apply them in our families, in our local community, and into our global family as well. – Seane Corn

Release Shame With Vedic Sexuality

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by Acharya Shunya: Allow yourself to become spiritually shameless. Submerge yourself in “an ocean of ever-expanding spiritual pleasure” as you explore Vedic sexuality…

Living Dying Man

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by Barbara McAfee, Maren Showkeir: Today would have been Jamie Showkeir’s 70th birthday…

Belonging In The Body

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by Sebene Selassie: Granting ourselves permission to feel can help us find acceptance…

Om Mani Padme Hum: The Meaning Behind the Popular Mantra

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by Meredith DeCosta: This special yogic chant is Sanskrit, and it’s pronounced OHM-MAH-NEE-PAHD-MAY-HUM. It’s comprised of four words, and those four melodic words are all the words on many of those colorful Tibetan prayer flags…

Why Do We Die?

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by William Park: Certain jellyfish and their relatives offer tantalising clues as to whether immortality is possible – so why does death become the rest of us?

Why Death Matters

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by Adam Frank: Reframing life in terms of death reveals some of the biggest philosophical problems with how we think about living systems…

Leave the Heavy Lifting to the Light

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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. — Albert Einstein