The Powerful Link Between Yoga and Body Satisfaction
When we look in the mirror, we don’t necessarily see the reality of our own bodies. Body image is highly subjective, as is body...
9 Crystals to Empower Your Yoga Practice
Incorporating crystals and gemstones is a fun and easy way to boost the power of your yoga and meditation practice. Throughout recorded history, crystals...
Endless Lifetimes, Endless Benefit
From the Summer 2005 issue of Buddhadharma, Bethany Saltman talks with Tenzin Palmo about rebirth, merit, and the bodhisattva vow. Venerable Tenzin Palmo is best known as...
A Practice for Cultivating Moment-to-Moment Gratitude
The practice of mindfulness involves paying attention, and noticing whatever arises in your field of awareness, moment to moment. It can be helpful to...
You Are Already Dying
The most profound meditation, says Joan Halifax, is contemplating the certainty of your own death. How many people who will die today even know that...
The Best Yogic Recipes for 2019
Do you eat the same way all year round or adapt what you eat seasonally? According to Ayurveda—traditional Hindu principles designed to help us...
Try a Self-Compassion Break
A sense of interconnectedness is central to self-compassion. It’s recognizing that all humans are flawed works-in-progress, that everyone fails, makes mistakes, and experiences hardship...
Buddhist monk raises awareness about the swastika’s original meaning
Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki wants to educate the West about the history of the manji, a counterclockwise swastika that means “good fortune” in Japanese. When Rev....
5 Signs You’re In a Relationship With An Enlightened Woman
Enlightened women have an air of humble confidence about them; they know what they want, but they won’t trample over others to get it....
How Too Much Stress Can Actually Shrink Your Brain
Having elevated levels of stress for extended periods of time can do a lot of damage to various parts of the body. Most of...
