As your awareness expands, change happens — a visceral change that influences other aspects of your life, revealing points of evolution in profound and dynamic ways. So we wondered: are people who practice yoga and meditation more likely to be the citizens who respond to calls to action? If so, why?
My life is hectic. It’s go-go-go from one jobsite to the next, all the while trying to keep up with texts and emails. Coffee is a must and often breakfasts and lunches are a luxury.
When you’re feeling stressed, it’s easy to forget the importance of self-care. However, your yoga practice can be used to cultivate a peaceful, non-reactive ground from which you can relate to others. Think of yoga as a break from our hyper-stimulated culture.
I practice and teach with the belief that health and fitness require a strong physical body and mind. Strength in all aspects of life requires experiencing the muscles of the body through asanas and the “muscles” of the mind through pranayama and meditation.
As a universal divine space, it doesn’t have the usual boundaries of faith, culture, or tradition: it’s open to everyone, and provides a unique experience for each individual.
I want to live in such a way that light and love are the auras around me, so that others may be blessed by that same light, love, and peace.
In myriad conversations with yoga teachers, I continue to learn the power of individual action, and what it represents during the sea change of local, national, and world issues. But this power can be subtle, and to respect an individual is to respect his or her course of action, or even non-action. […]
So we asked our teachers:
“Are you a peacenik, an activist, neither, or both? Why?”
Allow different perspectives to inform your views and determine a more open course.
World peace starts with inner peace — and there’s perhaps no greater advocate of this worldview than Max Strom. Respected internationally as a motivational speaker and author, Strom has practiced and taught yoga since 1991. He travels the world sharing his insight on how to attain true happiness in a society increasingly obsessed with technological shortcuts.
Tragedy and trouble find us all, sooner or later, even living in the most stable, wealthy, and just societies in history. What do the perennial wisdom traditions have to say about optimal living in difficult times?
