Each Friday, we share three topical longreads in our Weekend Reader newsletter. This week Lion’s Roar’s associate editor Lindsay Kyte looks at tuning into what your body really needs.
How to Practice Embodied Mindfulness
You don’t just practice mindfulness with your mind. You practice it with your body too. Yoga teacher and Buddhist Cyndi Lee teaches us how.
What Is Your Body?
It’s less than we think. It’s far more than we know. It’s who we are but it’s not. Contemplate the deeper reality of the body.
Awakening in the Body
Being mindful of the body is a profound—though often overlooked—opportunity to deepen our meditation and develop our insight.
The Joy of Falling: Skiing as Meditation
Melvin McLeod shares a little piece he wrote for the July 2013 “Body” issue on skiing as a practice of fearlessness and trust.
“Yoga for Meditators” teaches you to sit – quite literally
Meditation can present physical challenges, so in this excerpt, Charlotte Bell offers some guidelines on choosing a proper sitting position.
Placebo, chronic fatigue and dormitive principles
Photo by Aotaro.John Tarrant looks at the ambiguous power of the mind over the body with the examples of chronic fatigue and the placebo effect.
Sit up straight!
No, we won’t be haranguing you to eat your veggies, too, but this is some advice that will help meditators and non-meditators alike.
Start With Your Body
A panel discussion with Phillip Moffitt, Cyndi Lee, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Reggie Ray. Introduction by Anne Carolyn Klein.
Make way for the beauty of reality. (Including yours!)
Rod Meade Sperry talks about the recent Glamour Magazine body positivity photo, and how we should spread this unfettered beauty.