Diversity in Yoga — Learning About Community from Buddhists
Buddhists can offer much insight on the lack of diversity in yoga. Western Buddhist centers have struggled with many of the same issues that yoga now faces.
read moreDiversity in Yoga — Reaching Out to the Community
With a lack of diversity in yoga, some teachers and nonprofit groups reach out to underserved populations in the community. Can this increase diversity?
read moreDiversity in Yoga — The Great White Female Yoga
In spite of its definition as “union,” diversity in yoga is almost absent. Surveys and teachers emphasize the need to connect to a wider range of people.
read moreWhy It’s Painful to Let Go of Clutter
Recent research shows that, for hoarders, getting rid of clutter activates areas of the brain associated with conflict and pain.
read moreYoga Lessons From the Fire Pit — Tony Robbins Fire Walk
Almost two dozen people were injured recently while fire walking at a Tony Robbins seminar at the San Jose Convention Center, with many of those hurt suffering second- or third-degree burns. An article in the New York Times about the incident is likely to ignite the same kind of knee-jerk reaction that happened after William Broad’s piece on the dangers of yoga (“How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” NYT 5 January 2012). If you are a proponent of fire walking—and clearly many of the seminar participants quoted in the New York Times are—then circling the wagons to protect the reputation of a man who...
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Stop Waiting – Read the New Short Story Now
