By Kelly Mcgonigal
The yoga tradition offers a refreshing alternative to the New Year’s resolution: the practice of sankalpa, or resolve.
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Having studied many forms of yoga–Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Viniyoga–and popularized Yin Yoga, Sarah Powers has created a custom practice that she calls Insight Yoga.
The ultimate goal of Buddhist practice isn’t about achieving mental health.
The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering. Why? Because it is the fiery gate through which we must pass to engage the spiritual path.
Like many Westerners, I always assumed that meditation was a “spiritual” phenomenon, which I took to mean that it somehow had to do with realms beyond the physical.