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LA ASTROLOGY PAGES
LA-HEAVEN TO EARTH JYOTISH FORECAST By BETHEYLA
BOOK REVIEWS
Reiki A
Comprehensive Guide
By Pamela Miles
The Tao of Natural
Breathing
By Dennis Lewis
Happiness
By Matthieu Ricard
Yoga Beneath the Surface
By Srivasta Ramaswami and David Hurwitz
Staying Focused in the Age of Distraction
By Elizabeth Hanson
Hoffman, Ph.D. and Christopher D. Hoffman, MSW, LCSW
Reviews by Julie Deife, Felicia M. Tomasko & Marie Black
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Plus DVD reviews, Yogi Food, Workshop Reports, Op Ed, Letters to the Editor, Ayurveda Pages, Practice Pages and more.
COMING UP IN THE
September 2006 ISSUE
The Peace Issue:
Sitting Down With Congressman Dennis Kucinich
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Posted August 25, 2006
Yoga’s Rock Stars Earned Their Stripes
By Lou Volpano
I read the L.A. Times recent article – “Yoga’s Rock Stars” (August 21, 2006) about Maty Ezraty, Brian Kest, Shiva Rea, Ana Forrest and Duncan Wong. The significance of this ‘rock star status” (maybe it’s a new certification title?) leads me to think about the new crop of teachers being spawned by innumerable teacher trainings. .
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July/August 2006
Volume 5/Number 5
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SPECIAL SECTION:
YOGA OF DANCE
By Felicia M. Tomasko
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Classical Indian dance, in all of its forms, is prayer personified: through intricately embroidered costume, henna ceremoniously decorating dancers’ feet, gestures that tell epic stories and invoke heroes, demons and gods, and the dancers’ skill in personifying the transcendent.
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Why Western Medicine should be the
Alternative
By Bob Belinoff
Vioxx, the Merck painkiller that has been proven to cause heart attacks, is only the latest symptom of an outmoded western medical model whose days as the dominant health care system should indeed be numbered. Western medicine has its undisputed place, but when it comes to treating the diseases which affect most Americans, evidence suggests that western medicine – and not the many forms of natural medicine – should be labeled the alternative, used discreetly and only when there is no other option.
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AYURVEDA Q&A:
By Dr. Jay Apte
Ayurveda has been practiced in the U.S. only about 25 years, yet it is the 5000 year old Indian system of medicine and yoga's sister science. Readers are invited to submit questions for "Ayurveda Q & A" to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com
Q: I am a yoga teacher practicing with a woman who is trying to conceive. We have been doing poses which help bring blood into the lower body as well as energy movement. Is there a special diet or herbs she, I or both of us can use to help with fertililty? Your advice is appreciated.
A: In case of fertility there are many things that are involved other than blood flow.
In Ayurveda, diet and lifestyle are always the keys. Food builds all the tissues (dhatus) in the body. Sperms are considered shukra dhatu, which is the most subtle of all dhatus.
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Research Brief: Asthma: Ease the Wheeze
By Felicia M. Tomasko
Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by periodic flare-ups when the airways become inflamed. Irritants or allergens can trigger inflammation of the lining inside the airways leading to the lungs as well as constriction of the surrounding muscles. This causes symptoms such as wheezing, chest tightness, difficulty breathing, coughing, pain and shortness of breath. Mucus production increases and further interferes with breathing.
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Teacher Profile: Jessica Jennings
By Marie Black
Jessica Jennings is completing her Master’s thesis research at Kaiser Permanente, investigating a group visit program that integrates yoga into each woman’s check-up. The program began when Dr. Tina Navarez, Kaiser’s chief of obstetrics in Los Angeles, and Kaiser’s regional chief of obstetrics in Southern California, also a colleague of one of Jessica’s professors at Cal State, had just taken her first yoga class. Dr. Navarez was smitten and wanted to know Jennings’s thoughts on combining yoga with Western delivery methods.
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Sitting Down With: Deepak Chopra
By Julie Deife
Deepak Chopra is the Bob
Dylan of consciousness. Thoughts spill effortlessly in perfect sentences when he speaks or writes, always on a level that amazes even the seasoned Chopra fan. Chopra is the man credited with introducing Ayurveda to a U.S. audience, with a vocabulary we could understand, in a way we could begin to accept. He has helped us to understand that we are not our bodies, that through spirit and soul we will transcend the mundane realities of our perceptions. Chopra never stops creating and he’s at it again with his Alliance for a New Humanity that aims to change the world through peace cells, one mind at a time.
Julie: You speak on Ayurveda in India as well as in the U.S. Would you comment on Ayurveda in India?
Dr. Chopra: Ayurveda is a consciousness-based approach to health. And what I still find missing in India, particularly, is that we don’t focus on consciousness as an important element in healing. Ayurveda is a minor text in the larger body of knowledge; it’s an Upa-veda, a secondary Veda. The main Vedas deal with the deeper issues like who we are and what happens after death. That ultimate healing is the conquest of the main fear people have - the fear of death.
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