With the final days of 2025 upon us, it’s a great time to reflect on the year that has been. The year that in many ways and for so many people, kicked our ass. Christmas has come and gone and the New ...

In this New Year, I wish a fresh start for all of us, and our dear earth. But that wish must start at home. In the New Year, I wish a fresh start for all of us, and our dear earth. But that wish must ...

Elephant isn't just a big website. We're community-driven. We're dedicated to sharing "the mindful life" beyond the core or choir, to all those who don't yet know they give a care. We focus on ...

Christmas is celebrated across the world as the birth of Jesus Christ, the light that entered a dark and divided world. Yet, when seen through the combined lenses of astronomy, astrology, and ...

It’s better to take our time than trade a job well done for hasty speediness. Busy can be good! Chaos can be delightful (and hard on our egos). But busy-ness…not so much—and our never-ending quest for ...

In a relationship, having your partner withdraw at an emotional level can bring confusion, pain and frustration. Here’s why men seem to pull back. Women who relate to men that do this are often ...

It is often said that we don’t find yoga, but that yoga finds us. That something in our life, in the universe, responds to our readiness to benefit from what yoga has to offer us and then presents us ...

I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...

Loneliness is not a thing to be conquered. It’s a thing to make friends with—then you’ll be with your best friend wherever you go—your sweet red heart. I just attended the Nutcracker, with family ...

In one of the stamens of the flower of the world is Pemako in the shape of Vajra Yogini lying down. Outer, inner and secret levels correspond to the levels of the mind. In the secret chakra of Vajra ...

She would have been 93, now. Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and ...

“But… how can you say she was being objectified if she agreed to do the photo shoot?” my friend asked. I’d just expressed my distaste with a nude yoga photo ...