• Detoxing the Mind
    Detoxing the Mind

    Author Shannon Lough

    Ever wonder why we spend so much time worrying about spring cleaning, purging our overabundance of things, reorganizing our homes, and trying out new body detoxes to clean out those winter cobwebs and reemerge fresh and new for the season. We spend so much of our time rearranging the space around us, and the physical space within us through diet and exercise, but so little time on our minds.
  • How Meditation Will Change Your Life
    How Meditation Will Change Your Life

    Author Zain Jamal

    Are you ready for a change? I mean a deep, juicy, life transforming energetic shift? One that has the power to release you from the burdens of worry, resentment, fear and your inability to let go of control. One that will help you to unleash your inner beauty and gifts, onto the world?
  • The Journey Home
    The Journey Home

    Author Shannon Lough

    I’ve called many places my home. A two-story home in a small-town subdivision; a single flat for staff housing, sandwiched between a petrol station and bar in a glacier tourist town; a trailer adjacent to a raging river, and within the facilities of a popular backpacker hostel; a holiday-home in a popular extreme sports tourist town at the base of mountain; a tent, in my hobo days; the first story of a duplex; an ex-communist student dorm; a tatami-floored Japanese apartment in a mountain village between Fuji-san and Tokyo; and recently, at the Yogi-Nomad’s home in Kathmandu valley full of budding yogis. I use my grandfather’s expression “home is where you hang your hat.” It could be in the back of a car, or a beach along the Sea of Japan; but is this home? 
  • How to Use Mala Beads for Yoga and Meditation
    How to Use Mala Beads for Yoga and Meditation

    Author Jacqueline Medalye

    If you practice yoga or meditation regularly, you may want to consider using mala beads as a meditation aid. Mala beads are a strand of 108 beads used for keeping count during mantra meditations. Malas can also be made of 27 beads or 21 beads for use in shorter meditations. Malas can be used during meditation, they can be made from gemstones that match the intention of your practice, and often malas are placed in shrines as a reminder of affirmations. Malas are also referred to as mala beads, Buddhist beads or Buddhist prayer beads. Mala beads have been used in Buddhism and Hinduism for centuries and the traditional Rudraksha mala dates back to the 10th century.
  • 5 Cures For Your Wandering Mind
    5 Cures For Your Wandering Mind

    Author Matt Cooke

    The mind states or hindrances are a set of Buddhist concepts that deal with what our minds are doing when we aren’t showing up in the moment. These mind states are what pull us from our present experience, and create suffering.  Luckily for us, early Buddhists were also brilliant in coming up with a cure for each of the fluctuations of the mind.
  • I Am Here for You: A Poem
    I Am Here for You: A Poem

    Author Doug Swenson

    Always – I am here for you Escape your busy life  Don’t talk… just join me Savor my understanding, and my love
  • An All-Encompassing Meditation on Love
    An All-Encompassing Meditation on Love

    Author Shelley L. Cummins

    Allow your attention to focus on the word "Love." Notice each letter L-O-V-E. Notice the sound vibrations in each letter and of the word. Contemplate the meaning of love.