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New Currents: Participatory Medicine
An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through both science and personal practice, about mindfulness as a way of life. He developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a groundbreaking behavioral medicine program. Thanks in large part to...
Yoga Therapy: A Holistic Approach
An Interview with Timothy McCall, M.D. What yogis realized thousands of years ago—and what the western medical community and researchers are just now catching on to—is that practicing Yoga can make a critical difference in one’s health and wellbeing. In this...
Enough Already, The Pleasure of Simplicity
By Swami Divyananda After years of dedicated service in Integral Yoga ashrams and centers in California, New York, Virginia, India and other places, Swami Divyananda now travels more than ever, calling the entire world her home. Along the journey, she has learned some...
The Sacred Circle of Yoga
By Catherine Ghosh In this article, Catherine Ghosh explores the depth of meaning behind each of the niyamas. She reveals a sacred and secret formula given by Sri Patanjali, which is also echoed by Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, so that sincere Yoga practitioners...
Remade By Fire
An Interview with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. In 1961, Irina Tweedie, arrived in India, where she met a Sufi master, Bhai Sahib. She became the first Western woman to be trained in the ancient Sufi lineage of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujadidiyya. She carried this...
Weaving Niyamic Wisdom Into Your Life and Faith
By Monette Chilson In her inspiring new book, Sophia Rising, Monette Chilson, uses Sophia (Greek for wisdom)—the iconic face of the feminine divine found in both Jewish and Christian traditions—as a guide. The book explores the spiritual foundations of Yoga in a way...
The Front Line of Yoga Therapy and Research
An Interview with John Kepner, M.A., M.B.A. The fifth Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR) will be held June 13-16, 2013 in Boston—the first time it’s been held on the East coast. The third Symposium on Yoga Research (SYR) will be held immediately before, on...
The Five Agreements and the Five Yamas
An Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz For many years, Don Miguel witnessed people struggling to quiet their minds and sought to create tools to assist them. Through his book, The Four Agreements, as well as the follow-up book, The Fifth Agreement, he has transformed the...
Yoga Ethics: Why They Matter
By Deborah Adele, M.A., ERYT500 Deborah Adele’s bestselling book, The Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice, is an in-depth journey inside Yoga’s first two limbs. In our first interview (Spring 2010) with her about this book, she reflected on how...
Unlocking the Secret Power of Yoga
An Interview with Nischala Devi Nischala Devi’s book, The Secret Power of Yoga, reinterprets Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras for our modern times and from a woman’s perspective. She views the path of Raja Yoga as a path with eight facets that are interconnected and...