My Story: How I Got Here
September 3, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Meghan Telpner Just three years ago I was sick, I was tired and I was so afraid that this was as good as it was going to get. I didn’t know how to cook, had done maybe a handful of yoga classes and was surviving on rice cakes and margarine. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that this is where I would be today, healthier, stronger and happier than ever before in… Read More >
Food Guilt & Self-Love
August 31, 2009
By Guest Blogger
It’s Meatless Monday again! We’re so excited to introduce guest blogger, Debra Mazer, a raw vegan foods chef from Atlanta, GA. Debra is here to share her journey with a raw vegan diet and give some great tips for pulling yourself out of the emotional rut that we all can fall into on our wellness journey. Hope you’re joining the CSL crew for a meat-free day! When I first went “raw,” in 2001, I was… Read More >
The Lovetarian Diet
August 26, 2009
By Gabrielle Bernstein
Four years ago, I decided to clean up my mind and become a loveatarian. Choosing loving thoughts over fearful delusions was a tough transition at first. Giving up fear is like giving up sugar. Much like sugar, fear is a sneaky ingredient that hides out in everything. And just when you think you’ve got it under control all of sudden it pops up again. Therefore releasing fearful patterns requires you become a loveatarian. One of… Read More >
Part I: The History of Animal Rights
August 24, 2009
By Dr. Will Tuttle
Good Meatless Morning! Today, Dr. Will Tuttle is here to give us an in-depth look at the origins of animal rights. Part II is coming up tomorrow! At its core, the animal rights movement is about questioning the official story of our culture at the deepest level. This is why animal rights is so threatening to the existing power structure. Essentially, the animal rights movement is about vegan living as minimizing our cruelty to animals,… Read More >
Spirituality, Yoga, and Vegetarianism
July 31, 2009
By Sharon Gannon
Sharon Gannon is the author of Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Path to Greater Health and Happiness. Today, Sharon shares some of the frequently asked questions she encounters on vegetarianism and how it relates to yoga and spirituality. Q: What does it mean to be a spiritual person? A: All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present. The words for spirit in the ancient languages… Read More >
Divine Dreaming and Spiritual Superheroes
July 29, 2009
By Sera Beak
A few nights ago I had one of those A-HA dreams. The message is a wee bit typical, but the experience was quite inspiring. Here it is: My landlord moved me to a new apartment building outside of San Francisco, on a remote forlorn beach. It was a strange building, to say the least, filled with dark passageways and heavy unlocked doors, odd shaped rooms with hooks coming out of the walls, and concrete…lots of… Read More >
Spread Your Wings, from Bali to Brooklyn
July 28, 2009
By Amy Rachelle
From Bali to Brooklyn and Amsterdam to San Fran, what I experience in my travels are conscious hubs which serve as containers and invitations for a new paradigm way of being. These are destinations where raw foods, yoga, and holistic living in general are rapidly coming up on the radar as signs of where progressive culture can be found. The inexpensive, natural, spa-like lifestyle in Bali seems to be one of the original portals where… Read More >
Part II: Childbirth Today
July 23, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Continuation of Part I: Childbirth Today… The next step is for pregnant women to relearn the true experience of childbirth. We deserve to have a say in the medications we take or decide not to take. We need options so that we can decide where we will deliver our babies and who will be present at the delivery. We can take personal responsibility in creating exactly the kind of childbirth we want. We want to… Read More >
The Scoop: Kathy Freston’s Quantum Wellness Cleanse
July 14, 2009
By Corinne
What was your inspiration for adopting a vegan lifestyle and how has it impacted your life? I always considered myself a spiritual person, someone who wanted to live by principles that would better hone my personal evolution: kindness, compassion, alleviating suffering when I saw it. When I saw, through videos and in books, what was happening to animals as they became food for my plate, I realized I was not living my principles at all.… Read More >
A Blindfold?
July 7, 2009
By Parashakti Alsultany
I am often asked if one can participate in Dance of Liberation without wearing a blindfold. The idea of purposely setting aside one’s ability to see physically can seem strange, even intimidating, for many people. Yet my experience demonstrates over and over again what a gift it can become. Originating in my own shamanic apprenticeship, the use of a blindfold in all facets of my work is an invitation and tool to go on one’s… Read More >
Our Future is Vegan
June 12, 2009
By Dr. Will Tuttle
We live on the road. For fourteen years now Madeleine and I have been plying North America’s highways in our ’86 diesel pick-up that pulls our solar-powered fifth wheel “rolling home” across this beautiful land. Although we only drive about fifteen to twenty thousand miles per year, following the geese in spring and fall, and presenting around 150 lectures, concerts, and workshops annually, we are able to get a pretty good glimpse into what’s happening… Read More >
I took my first real breath yesterday
May 20, 2009
Light seekers, How many of you are shallow breathers? I am. Why? Not sure. Fear? Anxiety? Perhaps I don’t breathe deeply because in some corner of my domesticated girl damage a deep breath means a rounded belly and a rounded belly is “bad”. You know what I mean? Suck it in, keep it slim. Yesterday that changed. I worked with the most amazing healer and for 90 minutes all we did was breathe – I… Read More >
Dare to Disturb the Universe
April 28, 2009
By Sera Beak
I’m Sera Beak, a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative religion and mysticism who’s spent the last dozen years traveling the world exploring spirituality — from whirling with Sufi dervishes to meeting the Dalai Lama on my 21st birthday; from taking the host from a Croatian Catholic mystic who had the stigmata (truly) to having life-altering visions with a shaman, and just about everything in between (I now happily deem myself a “spiritual cowgirl”). I’m also the… Read More >
Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors
April 21, 2009
By Parashakti Alsultany
It is a hot summer day, eleven years ago. I am a twenty-three year old Israeli woman who, along with other seekers, is on a trek into the Judean desert, south of Jerusalem. Our guide, a thin bearded man with intense, burning, blue eyes, is a Haredi, a “trembler” — the Hebrew word for an ultra-Orthodox Jew – and a Hasid, one immersed in the mystical traditions of Judaism. Within the Hasidic world, spiritual leadership… Read More >
Urban Zen Event with Roshi Joan Halifax
May 28, 2008
Hiya angels, I am so excited to spread the news about an amazing benefit event happening in NYC on Friday, June 6th. My very first Zen teacher (and idol) Roshi Joan Halifax will be teaching her Death and Dying workshop at Urban Zen. Donna Karan and The Village Zendo will be hosting this event with all proceeds going to the Zendo (another spectacular place). Don’t let the name of the workshop freak you out folks.… Read More >
Soul Shine
August 17, 2007
I’m a classic rock kind of gal so when I woke up this morning singing “Soulshine” by The Allman Brothers. I thought why not write a little more about the glow. Remember that bluesy tune? “Soulshine, better than sunshine, better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain.” Well those fellas were on to a deliciously universal truth. Ever since the TLC commercial for my film started playing, the Crazy Sexy word, is rippling out to… Read More >
