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Approximately one year ago, Colleen and I helped chair the Urban Zen Initiative with Donna Karan and Sonja Nuttall. This was a 10-day forum exploring the future of integrative medicine and the new healthcare paradigm. One of our immediate concerns in the Initiative was to train about 100 yoga teachers, mainly from the New York ... read more

I am in a small airplane on my way to the Mayo Clinic to do a satellite media tour with a Mayo Clinic doctor. We are going to talk about Integrative Medicine, and for me specifically, how yoga can help with many of the symptoms that patients deal with from their illnesses. The time has ... read more

  Zen Master poet Gesshu Soko writes: Inhale, exhale Forward, back Living, dying: Arrows, let flown each to each Meet midway and slice The void in aimless flight – Thus I return to the source.   In asana practice, we try to balance right and left, front and back, top and bottom. On a very subtle level, we align the human body, so that ... read more

My eldest brother is turning 60 today. Traditionally, 60 is a very significant birthday for the Chinese. I believe it marked a time when people would start letting go of their worldly possessions and embark on a life of spiritual seeking. It marked the time of the beginning of wisdom. ... read more

It is a classic scene – you trip and fall, and your first knee-jerk reaction is to see if anyone saw you.