How to Find Deeper Access to Joy: Start with a Peaceful Mind
It's hard to find stillness in the face of life's ups and downs. Cultivate equanimity by practicing mindfulness meditation and calming breaths.
BY FRANK JUDE BOCCIO
A lot of people I know avoid reading the news first thing in the morning—being confronted with all of the injustices and bad deeds in the ...
A Practice for My Mom on Mother’s Day
A daughter reflects on the way yoga has brought she and her mother closer.
My mom, Kimberly Gibson, on one of her favorite hikes in Carmel Valley.
By Hillary Gibson
As I sat in Virasana (Hero’s Pose), my palms pressed into Anjali Mudra, the teacher invited us to dedicate our individual practices to ...
5 ways to practice Gratitude Meditation
Learn why you might want to kickstart a regular gratitude practice.
BY PATRICIA KARPAS
Maybe you have experienced this only during Thanksgiving dinners: At some point, someone suggests going around the table to say what you're thankful for. You feel butterflies in your stomach as you try to come up with a ...
Using Meditation to Heal When Faced with Chronic Illness
Instead of viewing your chronic illness as a disease in your body, choose to view it as an opportunity to reconnect with yourself and learn to love yourself through meditation.
By Amy Kurtz
In my senior year at college I was involved in a school tradition called “Marathon,” where every freshman ...
6 Steps To Channel Envy Into Positivity
Transform envy into a positive practice for finding—and fulfilling—your greatest potential with these six steps from Sally Kempton.
By Pamela Bond
If anyone should be immune to feelings of envy, it’s Sally Kempton. Having spent decades as a monk in the Indian tradition, she now teaches meditation and spiritual-wisdom workshops around the world, and ...
Intention & Inspiration
Setting an intention can be a powerful practice that helps you align with your higher goals. But keeping that intention front-of-mind so you actually follow through? That can be more challenging.
Enter the DIY affirmation card. “I leave these little love notes— acknowledgements of divinity, reminders of presence, and notes of ...
Meditation: Establish a Habit
According to Sally Kempton, acclaimed meditation teacher and author, who has taught meditation and yoga philosophy for more than 40 years, it's helpful for beginners to establish conditions for a meditation practice that will remain basically constant—the same time, the same cushion, the same quiet corner.
Our minds and bodies have natural rhythms, ...
More than 200,000 come together for Yoga & Meditation in Mexico City
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on Sunday morning in Mexico City to listen and move with Naam Yoga founder Dr. Joseph Michael Levry, and give hope to those affected by tragedy around the world.
By Kavita Chandran, YJSG Editor
Nov 26, 2017
The mass yoga and meditation, which ...
Visualization technique for Meditation
Turn Your Eyes Inward: Visualization
What It Is: The eyes are a powerful sensory organ, and they're typically hyperalert, focusing on the outside world. A visualization meditation can help you reverse this natural tendency.
"Let's say you're walking down Broadway in Manhattan," says Nikki Costello, a yoga and meditation teacher based in New ...
Be part of something bigger
Meditation can help us get in touch with the universal life force that connects us all.
By Richard Miller, PhD
WITHIN EACH OF US is unchanging equanimity, peace, joy, and stillness, no matter what is happening in our lives. It’s just that sometimes tapping into these feelings seems impossible. This is where ...
5 simple ways to keep your inner peace during a long weekend
1. Take a nature walk.
Studies have shown that getting outside in nature improves well-being. Watch the trees and the leaves, some changing color, some falling off the trees. Find a new trail and hug a tree. Hear your footsteps as you walk. Be the tree and let what is temporary fall ...
Research shows yoga & meditation can improve Alzheimer’s symptoms
While there is no cure for Alzheimer's, recent research suggests that yoga and meditation may play a role in prevention and improving symptoms of the progressive disease, which is the most common form of dementia (and also the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.) Last year, in the first ...