Neuron or Universe? We Are Stardust!

One photo depicts developing neurons in a young mouse’s brain. The other is an astrophysicist’s computer simulation of our ever-expanding universe. Can you tell which [...]

The Brain and Meditation

Can meditation change your brain? Contemplative neuroscientists believe it can From CNN’s Dan Gilgoff: Can people strengthen the brain circuits associated with happiness and positive [...]

Yoga Pumps Up Mood-Lifting Brain Chemical

By RICK NAUERT PHD Senior News Editor New research suggests yoga triggers the release of the brain chemical gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA. GABA is a [...]

77 Surprising Health Benefits of Yoga

77 Surprising Health Benefits of Yoga By Meredith Walker Over the past several years, yoga has experienced an upsurge in popularity in the western world [...]

Science vs. Spirituality by Chelsea Roff

Until my first year of college, I had never given much thought to the relationship between science and spirituality. I, like many of you I [...]

Stroke of insight: Jill Bolte Taylor on TED

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — [...]

About Gender: Jung and The Golden Flower.

The shadow is often that part of ourselves that we do not like to acknowledge. We are at once confronted with Jung’s bipolar opposites. No [...]

When You Lose Your Balance

In the practice of Hatha Yoga, balance of opposites is a gentle, intuitive concept to guide the movements of body, energy, and mind. The balance [...]

Tricycle » Stem Cells and Meditation

Stem cells are vital to the health of a human body, and scientists are now finding that meditation might increase a body’s stem cell count. [...]