One of the most difficult things beginners in yoga and/or meditation face is in developing a home practice. We all face this at some point. It’s our nature to want to do what’s easy and comfortable and for most of us, that means we ignore or skip our own practice and instead rely on a [...]
For the months of March and April 2009, Heartspring Yoga and Zafu Zafu of Barrie, Ontario, Canada are donating 10% of all sales of yoga and meditation supplies to Freeing the Human Spirit, a Toronto, Ontario-based charity that sends certified yoga & meditation teachers into prisons to teach inmates, in honour of FTHS founder Sister Elaine [...]
New INTRO TO YOGA class series in Barrie, Ontario, Canada - a series of six consecutive classes on Saturday afternoons from 1:30 - 2:30 pm.
FEATURES:
Small class size
individual attention
slower paced
focus on safety in postures
lots of detailed instruction
class notes & handouts
introduction to yoga and meditation
non-competitive
teacher is certified and registered
prepares you for our beginners’ yoga classes.
The next series [...]
An article from the Associated Press today talks about the latest “bump in the landscape of the economic meltdown: adult acne”.
What could be more embarassing?
It’s true, as dermatologist Dr. Cheryl Karcher says, that the nervous and hormone systems of the body work together, and when the nervous system is stimulated by stress, acne can be [...]
Last fall, I read an excellent book by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. called ANTI-CANCER. Dr. Servan-Schreiber is a brain cancer survivor who used traditional allopathic treatments combined with exercise and diet in order to successfully treat the recurrence of his brain cancer. At the end of this article, I give a link to an [...]
A series of links to Upaya Zen Centre’s Dharma Talks on Zen and the Brain. Lecturers include Dr. James Austin, Sandra Blakeslee, Dr. Richard Davidson, and Dr. Al Kaszniak.
1. Science is just now documenting what meditators have known for millennia. Jim Austin calls meditation “artful attention” and discusses the importance of this skill in our [...]
By Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500
Each of us will approach this issue differently. For some of us, the particular place where we mediate daily is very important. Some people decorate the place where they meditate to resemble a special place, a holy place, or a retreat.
If you choose to create a meditation space, it must be [...]
Written By Sean M. Anderson
Yoga has been in existence for thousands of years. That is longer than any other form of exercise in use today. It is also safe to say that the medical field has improved since then. Yoga has consistently been helping people overcome and deal with many types of illnesses as well [...]
This is a beautiful YouTube video about meditation, samurai-style. Follow the link or click on the photo!
A colleague of mine writes the following about her experiences with yoga and fibromyalgia.
I actually have pretty severe fibromyalgia and I teach 3 basic integral [yoga] classes per day. There is an excellent book “The Fibromyalgia Handbook” which is an excellent resource for anyone with fibromyalgia. In that book you discover that yoga and meditation [...]