Highlights and Current Issue Table of Contents
Features
Purify Your Chakras: Tantric Meditation Unveiled
This highly secret practice cleanses the body, breath, and mind while awakening the dormant force of your soul—the kundalini shakti.
Think Global, Vote Local: 4 Cities Go Green, Fight Poverty, and Inspire Us
Each of us can take yoga’s nonpartisan humanitarian values and respect for the earth into the voting booth. Here, a close look at how U.S. mayors are leading the nation. Spotlight on: Seattle, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, and Arlington, Texas.
The Good Black Magic That Could Save the Earth: Terra Preta
Literally “dark earth,” Amazonian terra preta has un-pretty names like biochar and agrichar, but by any name this ancient, mysterious substance is an exciting and powerful tool to reduce greenhouse gases.
Healing Yoga Comes to America
In 1976, yoga legend T. K. V. Desikachar opened a healing center in India. Now his “American daughter” is creating the first U.S. offshoot.
Departments
Living Joyfully
Meditative Gardening, Yoga for Busy People, and Shiva Rea’s Peace Plan for the Planet
Everyday Ayurveda
Seven Headache Helpers
Conversation
Filmanthropists Inspire Action in Uganda
Art of Asana
Sit Stronger Longer: Eka Hasta Bhujasana
Nature and the Environment
L.A.’s First Green Yoga Studio
Garden to Table
Creating a Visual Feast
My Practice
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche on the Joy of Meditation
Yoga Sutra 2.1
Three Ways to Deepen Your Spiritual Evolution
Common Threads
2012: The End of Time or a New Beginning?
Asana Solutions
Treat Your Feet: Yoga Therapy for Your Soles
Acting on Principle
The Accidental Activist: Bridging Cultures in Brooklyn
Yoga International
Cambodia’s Groundbreaking Studio
In Practice
Eight Tips for Bright, Beautiful Eyes
Arts and Media
Body and Beyond
Last Look
The Mind Is an Ocean