Category: Mindfulness in Your Life
The Miracle of Downward Dog: A Buddhist Discovers Hatha Yoga
A Buddhist practitioner finds that the best way to begin yoga is with a beginner's mind.—Mark Epstein, M.D., is author of Thoughts Without a Thinker, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and Going on Being: Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and Psychotherapy.
The Goddess Pose
Andrea Miller sits down for a Q&A with celebrated yoga teacher Shiva Rea about the true and transformative nature of yoga.
Commentary: Looking Under the Bed
Karen Maezen Miller on being a Zen priest and a mother in a modern world that won't confront the "Zen under the bed".
Street Yoga
Street Yoga founded in 2002 and offers free yoga, meditation, and wellness classes to homeless youth and to youth at risk of being homeless.
Q & A: Alice Waters
An interview with celebrity chef Alice Waters about healthy food, ethical ingredients and how to change the world with our eating choices.
The Mindful Society
Not long ago seen as fringey and foreign, mindfulness practice is going mainstream. Andrea Miller looks at five fields with mindful living.
Hatha Raja: Yoga’s Path to Liberation
Yoga becomes a complete spiritual path when we join the familiar postures of hatha yoga with the meditative practices of rajah yoga.
Still Mind, Moving Body
Andrea Miller profiles five teachers who combine hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation. Is this the perfect mind–body practice?
The Mind that Suffers
Recognizing suffering is the first step on the Buddhist path. By understanding suffering we can see the difference between pain and our reaction to it.
More Than Just This Body
Yee offers his thoughts on the power of yoga to bring us back to what’s truly important in our lives and to transform both body and mind.
Here, Now, Aware: The Power of Mindfulness
It’s the essence of the contemplative path and the key to transforming our lives. Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein describes this simple yet profound expression of our mind’s natural awareness.
Grandmother Mind
Parents must attend to the nuts and bolts of their children’s care. But grandmothers, says Susan Moon, can pay attention to the continuity of everything in the background—water, air, stories, and love.
This Silence is Called Great Joy: A Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
A teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh on the truth beyond our usual truths.
Doing the Buddha’s Practice
Mindfulness/awareness was the meditation the Buddha practiced and taught—it was his basic prescription for human suffering.
Meeting Pain with Awareness
Does awareness suffer? How we can meet our pain with openness, strength, and clarity, and our relationship to it is transformed.
Stumbling on Happiness
Are we just too dumb to be happy? Psychologist Daniel Gilbert reveals some of the common mental mistakes that defeat our search for happiness.
Why Can’t “I” Be Happy?
The four noble truths tell us that to be happy we must first discover the causes of our unhappiness. This is the approach of the renowned French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who says that genuine happiness is only possible after we understand the fundamental mistake that is the root of our suffering.
The Karma of Happiness
In measuring and prescribing human skills for a good life, lasting happiness requires that we carefully weigh the consequences of our actions.
Two Sciences of Mind
Barry Boyce reports on the dialogue between cutting-edge science and Buddhism's 2500-year study of the mind.
Showdown at Punk Palace
It's mindfulness versus Megadeth when Ian Prattis visits his art school son. Will hope triumph over heroin?