A stress test, that’s what President Obama and his administration recently put America’s major financial institutions to – subjecting them to a series of worst-case-scenario experiments to see just what kind of shape they were really in. … Never mind that people like you and me probably don’t have the foggiest clue how the level of [...]

By: Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani The use of yoga as therapy is on the rise, but many of today’s yoga therapists seem to have lost touch with the real essence of yoga. … Yoga aims to help us regain our psycho-physiological balance by removing the root cause of disharmony – and that root cause lays [...]

Yoga introduced many new concepts, such as the tri dosha, pancha kosha, and the chakras to the Western world. The concept of yoga therapy has also grown quickly here in recent decades. … Creating Balance Most practitioners of yoga therapy have been slow to really absorb its fundamental concepts and basic principles. Instead, yoga therapy has swiftly [...]

Is a productive change better than a rest?  I recently put this theory to the test. At the end of April, I did something that I haven’t done for a long … long time. I took a month off. Five weeks, to be exact. Thirty-five days without turning on my computer; thirty-five days without picking [...]