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Vibrant Health

DR. PRASAD VELUTHANAR describes the roles of the three doshas the natural elements in our system - in our health and well-being. He also shares what can be done if one or more doshas are out of balance in order to restore health.

TALKING WITH MY GRIEF

RUBY CARMEN explores the often repressed emotion of grief, and shares some ways we can accept it, value the meaning behind it, and integrate it into our being as an expression of love.

Insomnia

BABUJI'S NATURAL REMEDIES

Tune in to the Present Moment

DAAJI shares 4 simple practices to tune into the present moment and bring about a joyful, contented lifestyle. Doing these regularly will create sustainable peace.

Yoga for Reconciliation

George Okurut is a yoga teacher in vulnerable communities. He works with poor children in Kampala, Uganda. These projects have created yoga awareness, and mental health awareness, improving the livelihoods of people. George is a certified yoga teacher from S-VYASA Yoga University in India, and Satyananda Children's Yoga at Yoga Pura Vida in Tanzania.

Case of the Weekday Blues? EAT SOME BLUEBERRIES

POOJA KINI shares one of her simple superfood salads to brighten up your Monday and give you a burst of nutrients.

PERSPECTIVE

SRIRAM RAGHAVENDRAN story of crisis, courage, and the clarity that gave him a solution in a life and death situation shares a personal

HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT CAN FIND ITS WAY AGAIN

CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our current understanding of environmental sustainability, and asks us to reconsider our approaches and practices to environmentalism. He also dares us to realize that it will only work once we become nature lovers.

The Heart's Wisdom

KARISHMA DESAI shares her unique perspective on the integration of HeartMath and Heartfulness practices and research, and how this collaboration leads us to a bright future.

Organizational Health

DR. ICHAK ADIZES pulls together more than 40 years of experience and knowledge in organizational consulting to give us a simple overview of what is needed to create and maintain a healthy organization that can weather the ups and downs of any marketplace.

Love & Prayer

LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE looks back on a life of learning about love in its many forms and faces, from the most human to the most esoteric, and what it means to him that love is the source of all that exists.

Yoga and Mental Health

HIS HOLINESS the 14th DALAI LAMA met with UNESCO Artist for Peace, Dr. GUILA CLARA KESSOUS, on May 8, 2023. Evoking her commitments to UNESCO, Dr. Kessous asked about issues such as equality and women’s rights, intercultural dialogue, the societal role of art and the importance of yoga for mental health. Here is an excerpt from the conversation.

THE JOURNEY OF Total Health

DAAJI speaks about the role of the heart in healing, and the important aspects of a healthy life. He explains the concept of total health and how we can attain it through yoga.

The Miracle of life

Six years ago, A. PADMAJI found herself confronting a frightening health diagnosis. Today she is in remission, and she shares her journey and her gratitude for the role allopathic and complementary medicine and Heartfulness played in her recovery. This uplifting story is a testament to her faith.

Yoga and Ayurveda for Health

VALENTINA TSAREV, SRIVIDYA VARADARAJAN, UTTARA VENUGOPAL, and UMA NATARAJAN are all yoga teachers who have experienced the benefits of yoga and Ayurveda at a young age. Here they share some key features of their use for health.

Dealing with Thoughts

DAAJI dispels the myth that thoughts in meditation are bad, and helps us understand how to accept our thoughts in a constructive way, eventually leading to periods of thoughtlessness.

The Neuroscience of Meditation

Dr. SARA LAZAR is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is on the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. Here she speaks about how meditation impacts the brain.

WE TRULY ARE ALL CONNECTED

DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY, Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute, gave an online presentation to the Heartfulness international conference, \"An Integrative Approach to Health and Well-being,\" at Kanha Shanti Vanam in December 2022. In part 2, he shares more about coherence at the individual, group, and global levels.

In Search of a New World

SNEHAL DESHPANDE enlightens us on how pre-conception, conception and pregnancy, and the first year of life affect our later psychology and physical well-being.

Peer Pressure

SRIRAM RAGHAVENDRAN shares some wise words and his personal experience of managing peer pressure when he was at college.

How To Manage in Times  of CRISIS

DR. ICHAK ADIZES has been helping organizations to manage change for over forty years. His recent publication, How to Manage in Times of Crisis, is based on material from his talks during 2008 addressing the world financial crisis. But it is even more relevant today when human crises are multi-dimensional.

Yogic Lifestyle & Well-being

EDDIE STERN has been practicing and studying yoga since he was fifteen, and was drawn by India and the yogic life. Here he explains the science of yoga, and how the practices affect both physical and mental well-being.

How to Make the Most of Life

DAAJI explores the topic of destiny, including our own role in determining our future, as well as the roles other people, circumstances, and the environment play. He shares with us some practices and attitudes that help to make the most out of life.

The mind according to Patanjali

DAN ALDER explores the topic of mental well-being during a Yoga4Unity 2023 masterclass. He asks: how does the sage Patanjali view the mind? What does Patanjali believe to be our potential, what gets in the way of us attaining that potential, and what solutions are offered to us to remove those barriers?

Breathing and Moving

DAAJI shares some simple practices for mental and physical well-being.

You're On Your Own, Kid

Mamata Venkat Subramanyam explains how heart-based meditative practices have helped her turn feeling lonely into savoring alone time

WILD Intelligence

ELIZABETH DENLEY is currently living in the Central Highlands of Victoria in Australia, surrounded by natural forest. Why is this experience of living so close to Nature worth sharing? It has reawakened a more natural wild intelligence in her, the wild intelligence she remembers from childhood, which offers solutions to the current crises humanity faces

THE SCIENCE OF HEART COHERENCE

In December 2022, DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY, Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute, gave an online presentation at the international Heartfulness conference, \"An Integrative Approach to Health and Well-being,\" at Kanha Shanti Vanam. Here we share some highlights from his talk

Being Gentle is Being Light

VICTOR KANNAN explores the nature of gentleness, and why it brings lightness in its wake

Create the Habit of Happiness

STANISLAS LAJUGIE explains how we can cultivate the habit of happiness, even though our nervous system is wired for negativity. He gives us 3 simple steps to cultivate a happier disposition