You and I, or any life form, can’t have life without the inevitable death.  In learning corpse pose one is actually learning to live.  It’s about releasing outer tensions and traveling into the realms of inner peace.  Who needs Vegas when inward travel is the ultimate trip.

A vegetarian is something I wanted to be when I grew up, but the Czech and Polish dishes of my youth continue to haunt me. Sundays in particular were filled with tantalizing aromas  of pork and dumplings or ribs and kasha.

It’s easy to whistle a happy tune when things are moving along in sync, but it becomes harder when a wrecking ball gets thrown into the mix. It’s not an easy practice, but non-violence is the first step in the yoga philosophy to creating a more peaceful world -not the external world but the internal world.  Non-Violence in personal action, in word, and in perhaps the most difficult, thought.

Once upon a time, a student went to his teacher complaining about a chronic neck problem he had. Various professionals had given him neck exercises to help release the excessive stress he held there but nothing seemed to work. He just couldn’t figure out what was preventing his neck from relaxing. He really was a walking pain in the neck.

Everyone needs a personal trainer. And I’m not referring to the trainer at the gym, although this may very well be the personal trainer you need. By “personal trainer” I mean the person who reminds you about what’s important in life. Someone who gently nudges you along in a better direction than where you’re mindlessly headed.

Bioarcheology found that cruel societies had been relatively short-lived in the expanse of human existence.  Cultures more prone to extending tenderness to those most needy were the cultures which survived the longest.