by TAadministrator | Feb 23, 2015 | Brain, Habits, Stress
I have been reading and studying Yogic texts for about eight years. One of the concepts that comes up and creates interesting dialogue and interpretation is the notion of brahmacarya, which is one of the Yamas. The Yamas are the first limb of yoga, and relate to the...
by TAadministrator | Feb 16, 2015 | Habits, Mindfulness, Mindset, Stress
When I got my first period, as a rather shocked 11-year-old, my mother congratulated me for starting the “curse.” And I did find it a curse! I was a gangly, nerdy, sporty, shy, brace-wearing kid who did not want to have to deal with the irritating physical aspect of...
by TAadministrator | Feb 10, 2015 | Ayurveda, Brain, Habits, Mindfulness
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and...
by TAadministrator | Feb 3, 2015 | Ayurveda, Brain, Habits, Stress, Vision
Early february is a time of transition in many faiths and countries. We are halfway between the winter and spring equinox when Spring is on it’s way and the first crocuses start to appear (unless you live in the cold North like me, in which case you’re buried under a...
by TAadministrator | Jan 20, 2015 | Brain, Habits
What is success? This is an interesting question because everyone has a very different notion about what constitutes success. For some it is financial, for some it’s lifestyle, and for others it’s reaching a certain position in a company or in society. However for...
by TAadministrator | Jan 14, 2015 | Habits
One of the things about going through a life transition is that one inevitably re-evaluates one’s self worth and one’s friendships. As Jean Shinoda Bolen so eloquently says “once you are on your own, once you can’t return to who you were and who you were with, once...
