You gotta give to get. It’s an age-old maxim that finds happy residence in the house of spirituality, where inhabitants have long recognized that the path to abundance is paved with good deeds. The getting, in the instance introduced by MS sufferer Cami Walker, is the reward of personal well-being. And the giving? Well, that’s up to you. In 2006, just a month after getting married, Walker was diagnosed with...
There are many paths to spirituality. While some might find the solace they seek by adopting a map that travels the most conventional of routes, others discover their truest selves in a pottery class. Or between the pages of an Oprah magazine. Or at the mall. One of the coolest ways in is shamanism, an ancient pseudo-religious phenomenon that folks have been trying to explain for a couple of hundred years....
New years are gifts from the gods, granted to harried mortals who’ve burned through the previous 12 months and are hungry for a do-over. The ceremonial turning of the calendar offers as close to that as any of us is likely to get. It’s why the dawning of 2012, across a landscape that’s pocked with more battle scars and brewing despair than most of us can remember in our lifetime, could not be more welcome. Best to...
The end of the year looms large, as it does at every end of the year, and the pressure is on for the annual stock-taking to unearth at least some shred of good news. But things are crappy right now and everybody knows it. 2011 is simply not going to be recast as anything remotely pleasant, no matter the number of times we turn it around in our brains.The world’s economy is coming apart like a flaky pastry and there...
Exactly what gifts yoga has to bestow on those chronic conditions modern medicine diagnoses in our fragile, mortal selves is not yet clear. But it’s becoming so. Increasingly, stories surface of the myriad ways in which yoga is curing diabetes, cancelling cancer, erasing arthritis. The life-healing energy produced by yoga’s efforts, say those who believe, help us to “negotiate” our diseases. It sounds...