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  1. Guru Purnima 2022 Message: Know All Is Done For You

    On Guru Purnima, 2022, Gurudev addressed thousands in attendance at the Art of Living Retreat Center and shared the following: Guru Purnima is the New Year’s celebration for a seeker. That's the time for the report card. How we have done in one year, ...
  2. Travel Anxiety: Breathe Your Way to Calm On the Fly

    More than ever, people are making plans to travel so they can enjoy a much-needed vacation. They either want to see loved ones in familiar places, or escape recent confinements with said loved ones, and travel without them to a brand new destination!  It ...
  3. How to Deal With Loneliness: 7 Simple Tips to Feel Connected

    We humans don't need any excuse to feel lonely, but the pandemic sure has given us one. After years of social distancing and reducing social interaction, young people and older folks alike are all experiencing alarming degrees of loneliness. Before C ...
  4. World Culture Festival Through the Eyes of a Spiritual Seeker

    If you haven’t heard of a World Culture Festival yet, you are about to know about the biggest spiritual gathering on the planet! I’m thrilled to share with you my experiences at not one or even two of these unique gatherings, but three global celebrations ...
  5. Weekly Wisdom: Raja Yoga, Emotions, and Your Mind

    In response to a question about emotions, Gurudev shared the following: Emotions just show up. You try to hide them and often you’re not successful in doing so because that’s too difficult. If you’re happy, it shows up on your face effortlessly. When you’ ...
  6. Happy Pride: How Meditation Helps Create an Inclusive World

    Happy Pride! June is Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender, and Queer/Questioning) community. Pride month started in 1969 as a protest by Queer folks attacked for their gender identity and sexual orientation.  Pride ...
  7. Breathing New Life Into The School Community- After A School Shooting

    One of a parents’ worst nightmares is for their child to be involved in a school shooting. Parents have often revealed this fear to me, unbeknownst to them that I was once that kid, in that school.  The irony has been palpable. To their credit, it’s true. ...
  8. AOL Yoga Studio: Making Yoga Accessible to Everyone All the Time

    Well, it’s been a long time coming. Yoga has been around for thousands of years, and the jury is finally in. Everybody agrees...   Yoga is good for you.  The practice of yoga has been shown by hundreds of studies to offer tremendous benefits to your physi ...
  9. Deep Breathing Benefits for the Health of Your Mind and Body

    We are a society of shallow breathers. Some of us are barely breathing at all. Forget about using all three lobes of our lungs, chest breathing has become the norm. And that isn’t ideal when it comes to our health.  We are breathing just enough to stay al ...
  10. Green Pocket Forests: Growing a 100-Year-Old Forest in 10 Years

    What’s better than attempting to grow a 100-year-old forest in 10 years? Elementary school students are taking the lead! This real-life experiment has great expectations. Neelam Patil is showing schoolchildren how to stop climate change with real, tangibl ...
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