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Five Steps to Healing

By Linda Sparrowe Editor-in-Chief It’s breast cancer awareness month—and the pink ribbons are out in full force. We’ve walked, run, blogged, and gathered in groups large and small to raise money to...

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Hearth and Health

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor Want an alternative to the allergies, excess mucus, and communicable viruses usually associated with the upcoming holiday season? Take these traditional insights to heart....

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Sole Wisdom

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor Many spiritual traditions believe the body and soul are connected to—and even embodied in—the soles of the feet. Devotees around the world touch, wash, or kiss the feet of...

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My Daily Dance

By Elena Brower Guest Blogger A common thread runs through humanity, whether we practice yoga or not: the experience of self-doubt. This daunting, often daily occurrence more often points to a lack of...

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Salute to Clean Water

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor In our fall issue, we highlighted Santa Fe yoga teacher Josh Schrei’s plan to raise $25,000 for clean water advocacy by doing 3,000 sun salutes around the sacred Arunachala...

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With Gratitude

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor Yoga practitioners share a common bond. It might sometimes seem limited to the brand of chai we drink, the mats we buy, the devotional music we do or don’t like—even the...

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Change Your Life

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor Want to change your habits? Yoga practitioners commonly set a heartfelt intention, or sankalpa, to promote positive change. Want to push your practice further? Take up a...

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Holidays on (Thin) Ice

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor The winter travel season can bring us closer to our family—or drive us further apart. As spiritual teacher Ram Dass once said, “If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a...

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4 Health Tips for the Holidaze

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor Does this scenario sound familiar? Your skin’s completely dried out, your lips are chapped, your whole system’s dehydrated, and your brain is fuzzy and barely functioning....

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Your Guide to Everyday Simplicity

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor If you needed to pack for a trip tomorrow, what would you take? When faced with imminent travel plans like these, many of us choose possessions we know will definitely...

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The Armchair Traveler’s Guide to 9-5 Pilgrimage

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor Heard of the Kumbha Mela? It’s quite possibly the largest human gathering on the planet, a 2,000-year old celebration on the Ganges river that draws as many as 100 million...

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How to Build Food Karma (Even on a Budget)

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor In the December issue of Time magazine, Dr. Mehmet Oz recommended we all give frozen food a chance—even those forlorn glommed-together chunks of spinach that come out of...

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Build Your Willpower Muscle

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor Year-end lists, spontaneous resolutions, and 30-day yoga or meditation challenges are all common ways to test your willpower on—or even weeks after—the New Year. But what...

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A Brooklyn Chant Star Breaks Out

By Dakota Sexton Web Editor Do you love to attend community kirtan, or listen to the devotional music that crops up at festivals from Wanderlust to Tadanasa to even Omega’s Ecstatic Chant? Do you own...

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