I’ll admit it: I often read yoga-based magazines just as much for the advertisements as the articles. I find it fascinating, the way that a discipline has been transformed into numerous commodities

Let’s just say I was mildly surprised when one day a few weeks ago I walked out to dump my garbage. A pile of magazines was lying there, and right on top was something that immediately caught my eye: a McDonalds “15 minute workouts: Yoga” DVD.

While the knowledge of an impending disease is a frightening prospect for anyone, the fact remains that every one of us will die. The question is: how are we to spend the time we have while alive?

By Julia Steinberger

By celebrating the dead, the aging (once known as the wise), we celebrate life, and begin to comprehend what the passage of time really mean

If you get easily frustrated, the posture is only bringing out the reaction already inside of you, like a seed waiting to sprout. Your experience is defined by the thoughts you project into it.

Toning and chanting are wonderful, but in throat singing, you can actually sing two tones at once.

It shouldn’t surprise us that sex sells yoga, because sex sells everything else: watches, hair products, cereal bars, vacations

Sometimes just giving thanks is enough

How much does one need to pay to meditate? And how did it get so expensive, anyway?