There’s something special about the weird and wonderful few weeks between Halloween and New Year’s Day. The time of too many sweet treats and cozy sweater weather and traditional recipes and Christmas ...

I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...

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Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

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In one of the stamens of the flower of the world is Pemako in the shape of Vajra Yogini lying down. Outer, inner and secret levels correspond to the levels of the mind. In the secret chakra of Vajra ...

Join Elephant’s self-paced course, Maitri: the Buddhist practice of Making Friends with Yourself. This course won’t make you better—it’ll help you make friends with yourself as you actually are. All ...

We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...

Trauma sticks like neuro-physiological glue beyond the age of the traumatized child well into adulthood, impacting future medical and psychological health. The photos released this summer of immigrant ...

The belief that we are all one and that everything is connected and correlates is something that has been held throughout the ages by many spiritual traditions. This is the reason that we repeatedly ...

The four universal healing salves. In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four ...

“But… how can you say she was being objectified if she agreed to do the photo shoot?” my friend asked. I’d just expressed my distaste with a nude yoga photo ...