By Sara Clark — 2018
Yoga teacher and YJ cover model Sara Clark shares her journey toward courageousness, plus an asana practice and mantra to help you feel confident in your own skin.
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CLEAR ALL
Moving your body is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mind.
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Modern science and yoga agree: our present pain and suffering have their roots in our past pain, trauma, stress, loss, and illness.
When one hears a chant like Aum Namoh Bhagvate Vasudevaya, it is not a Grammy award ceremony that comes to mind as the setting of such chanting; but that is precisely what Krishna Das has been able to do—take cherished age-old Indian kirtans to a global stage such as the Grammys.
He’s driven a school bus, dabbled in the blues, and meditated in the jungles and ashrams of India, but today Krishna Das is known as the King of Kirtan.
Brené Brown, renowned for her research on courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy, challenged HR professionals to help cultivate brave leaders who will humanize work.
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Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax describes five “edge states” where courage meets fear and freedom meets suffering.
In his classic work the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali describes yoga as “the progressive quieting of the fluctuations of the mind.
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To create enlightened society, we must recognize our interdependence. In this 1999 conversation from the Lion’s Roar archive, Pema Chödrön and Margaret Wheatley discuss how individuals can open to one another.