Articles About Meditation


  • Yoga and the Ever-Present Nature of Life
    Yoga and the Ever-Present Nature of Life

    Author Padma (Marla Stewart)

    A dear friend of mine has the Sanskrit word Mrityunjai tattooed across his left chest. The word means “victorious over death. This friend is a true yogi, someone who has faced death, and knows for himself that death does not exist. 
  • 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?
  • Pranayama for Health and Vitality
    Pranayama for Health and Vitality

    Author Lilamaya (Liliana Galvis)

    Prana is the sum total of all energy that is manifested in the universe. It is the vital force, Sukshma. Breath is the external manifestation of Prana. By exercising control over this gross breath, you can control the subtle Prana inside. Control of Prana means control of mind. Mind cannot operate without the help of Prana. It is the Sukshma Prana that is intimately connected with the mind. Prana is the sum total of all latent forces which are hidden in men and which lie everywhere around us. Heat, light, electricity, magnetism are all the manifestations of Prana. Prana is related to mind; through mind to the will; through will to the individual soul, and through this to the Supreme Being.
  • Why Today is the Best Day Ever to Step On Your Mat
    Why Today is the Best Day Ever to Step On Your Mat

    Author Dr. Divi Chandna

    How is your yoga practice going? Do you ever get on your mat and wonder why you are there? Does it ever seem like a waste of time? Do you ever roll out your mat and plan to get on the mat, but then roll it up again?
  • 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? 
  • 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.