All tagged Mindfulness

Music For Mindfulness With The Kirtan Lounge

By Aleta Arora

It was a truly magical experience. As I entered the tent that was serving as a stage for this marvelous performance my eyes were immediately drawn upwards. There I was greeted by a kaleidoscope of colors. They gave me much of the same sensation as being a child and looking through that treasured kaleidoscope for the first time...

A Cosmic Woman: Yashoda Devi Ma On Mastering The Mind

By Rachel Nichols

Vedic Meditation is an effortless, eyes-closed technique practiced for 20 minutes twice daily. It’s a simple, natural and highly beneficial practice that absolutely anyone can learn. There is no effort, no concentration and no focus. This technique and its teachings draw from the cognitive sciences and the 5,000 year-old body of wisdom derived from India known as the Veda...

Compassionate Boundaries: How To Say No With Heart

By Carley Hauck

Many of us have developed a belief that we must be nice, pleasing, or helpful to the exclusion of our own feelings and needs in order to be worthy of love or appreciation. This belief is, of course, not true and furthermore an impossible goal to meet. When we give to get, we can often end up feeling angry and as a result we don’t create healthy boundaries at home and work...

Max Strom: How To Find Your Purpose

By Courtney Aldor

Enter Max Strom. Max is the author of There is No App for Happiness, and A Life Worth Breathing.  He’s spoken at TEDx and for Fortune 500 on the ethics of business and leads mindfulness workshops world-wide. When I heard was he was doing a talk at Yogaworks on finding our life’s purpose, I was intrigued. Maybe he'd help me figure out what to busy myself with. And after all, dear readers, which one of you doesn't want to know your life purpose? According to Strom, the answer is deceivingly simple...

No Means No, Even In Yoga

By Courtney Aldor

Not too long ago, in what was supposed to be a Meditation class, a friend and I were in an uncomfortable situation.  Flanked by women of various ages, we were instructed by the man leading class to roll around on the floor and moan.  When he commanded us to do it ‘louder’, ‘harder’, and ‘more’, and shamed us by suggesting we ‘notice our sexual repression’, the women followed suit by re-enacting orgasms for him...

The Inner Journey Home: How Yoga And Mindfulness Is Transforming The Lives Of SF’s Homeless Youth

By Rachel Nichols

I had the amazing opportunity to talk to Forest Fein, the Curriculum Director + Lead Instructor for the Youth Mindfulness programs at Larkin Street Youth Services.  Larkin Street provides youth between the ages of 12 and 24 with the help they need to rebuild their lives. Each year, more than 3,000 youth walk through their doors seeking help...