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The Five Yamas: Foundations for Healthy Eating

Editor’s note: We're happy to share another insightful guest post from Melina Meza, author of the Art of Sequencing. There are numerous opportunities for the Yamas to support your current wellness and nutritional aspirations. The Yamas create a wheel of ethics that includes kindness, honesty, refraining from stealing, moderation, and non-hoarding. Following these five principles will help ensure that your life is filled with healthy relationships, including the one with yourself, others, and … [Read more...] about The Five Yamas: Foundations for Healthy Eating

Guest Post by Michael Stone: On Suicide and the Dharma – Part 2

[Editor's note:  In this two part guest article, psychotherapist, Buddhist teacher, and Yoga teacher, Michael Stone, addresses the sensitive subject of suicide.  We hope that this discussion brings greater understanding to an issue that's likely tugged at our heartstrings in one way or another. Read part 1 of this series here.] In ideas of suicide, beliefs become dangerously polarized. In fantasies of suicide, the world becomes “outside” and separate from “me.” The world shrinks to the small … [Read more...] about Guest Post by Michael Stone: On Suicide and the Dharma – Part 2

Guest Post by Michael Stone: On Suicide and the Dharma – Part 1

[Editor's note:  In this two part guest article, psychotherapist, Buddhist teacher, and Yoga teacher, Michael Stone, addresses the sensitive subject of suicide.  We hope that this discussion brings greater understanding to an issue that's likely tugged at our heartstrings in one way or another.  Read part 2 of this series here.] No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. —Cesare Pavese Many of us who have suffered trauma, pain, or existential loneliness have struggled to find stories to … [Read more...] about Guest Post by Michael Stone: On Suicide and the Dharma – Part 1