Softening into the song

Then, from deep in the pit of my tummy, a voice began to sing.

Call for Contributors

Do you enjoy relating ideas about yoga to broader themes within culture, art, philosophy, science, or curent events?

To connect or disconnect from the body in yoga?

The church says the body is a sin, science says the body is a machine, advertising says the body is a business, my yoga practice ays the body is...

Holy Sh*t, Sacred Irreverence, and Artistic Tantrikas

Maxine Kumin wrote an ode to excrement. She was not being cute. This farmer-poet is among many artists who challenge conventional notions of what is [...]

For the Sake of a Single Verse – Rainer Maria Rilke

Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them young. One ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, [...]

SONGS OF GRATITUDE how poets connect us to the pulse of praise

Here’s one story: When Shiva got his creative groove on, he danced his cosmic dance and rat-a-tat-tatted a  hand-drum called a damaru. From those vibrations [...]

In Search of the Present – Octavio Paz – Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 (Translation) In Search of the Present I begin with two words that all men have uttered since the dawn of [...]

For one human to love another: Rilke

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the [...]

Hatha Yogis in the Counter Current by Jeff Davis

One aim behind many Hatha Yoga traditions is to live the ultimate reality of bliss in this world and body. Radical stuff, this body talk, [...]