Beyond Postures: The Art of Yoga

Big Guns & Tight Guns

Posted by Derek Beres on May 21, 2009 - 12:35pm.

The challenge of the yoga practice is not movement, but stillness.

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Patient Like a Marshmallow

Posted by Derek Beres on May 14, 2009 - 11:47am.

Researchers are finding that the art of self-control can be taught by a variety of techniques to children — something yogis have known for ages.


$8 Kale and Snorting Chocolate

Posted by Derek Beres on May 7, 2009 - 2:14pm.

With all the inventively inane marketing-driven foodstuffs lining our shelves, the health food industry has no one to blame but themselves for the lack of fulfilling its claims.


The Self Help Column Better Than All Self Help Columns

Posted by Derek Beres on April 30, 2009 - 12:02pm.

If the idea behind all self-help books is that only you can help your self, why so many books?


The Science of Understanding

Posted by Derek Beres on April 22, 2009 - 1:08pm.

We can’t necessarily blame science, the discipline, or even researchers themselves when they set out to “prove” things that are well known to many already


Enlighten Up!: The "Reality" of the Documentary

Posted by Derek Beres on April 16, 2009 - 1:39pm.

Filmmaker Kate Churchill's new documentary on yoga, Enlighten Up!, offers great glimpses into the lives of important teachers and calls out the fashion of yoga, though at times falling into the fashion of "reality" fillmmaking


Cheb i Sabbah's Tireless Devotion

Posted by Derek Beres on April 9, 2009 - 11:41am.

On his latest album Devotion, San Francisco-based DJ Cheb i Sabbah shows that while the ineffable may have many names, the passion behind all devotional music is the same

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The Return of Joseph Campbell

Posted by Derek Beres on April 1, 2009 - 7:45pm.

A plant’s seed does not produce an exact copy of the plant from which it fell, even if the likenesses are great. So it is with humans


The Art of Shoelessness

Posted by Derek Beres on March 26, 2009 - 4:56am.

It’s simply nice to have somewhere in which you are offered the chance of reconnecting with your inner life without the grime and bustle of the world, and walking around that space barefoot is symbolically important

Organic Junk is Organic Junk

Posted by Derek Beres on March 18, 2009 - 8:11pm.

A friend of mine, who works in the natural foods industry, recently remarked: If junk food is made with organic products, it’s still junk food.


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