Plum Village, a monastery for monks and nuns and a Buddhist practice center for lay people, was founded in 1982 by the Vietnamese Zen-Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Thich Nhat Hanh founded the Unified Buddhist Church in France in 1969, during
Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) is a western born teacher in the Vedic tradition. In India, Vamadeva is recognized as a Vedacharya, and includes in his scope of studies Ayurveda, Yoga, Vedanta and Vedic astrology, as well as the
Abraham Maslow introduced a model of developmental psychology that has become extremely well known not only in the field of psychology, but also in management and other human sciences. It describes five developmental stages, which are based on what Maslow
To put it simply, TM is a method of giving deep rest to the mind and the body. Generally the best form of rest experienced by us is a sleep of average 7-8 hours. Normally we assume that we are
So, how do you know that you need to be detoxified? Well, it’s a safe bet, that if you live in an industrialized society, you do. Of course, prevention and clean living is the first resort, but what if the
Angie Gonzalez is the founder of Permaculture Yogi: Inspiring inner and outer ecology through regenerative lifestyles by design. A registered Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner, and Permaculture designer Angieintroduces her philosophy of work. It is the practice of an extraordinary lifestyle
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Saya Gyi U Ba Khin was born in Rangoon, the capital of Burma (now Myanmar), on March 6, 1899. He was the younger of two children in a family of modest means living in a working class district. Burma was
