Pilates is in the training program of every professional sports team in America. It is also a meditation

BY PAUL KAIHLA — People often talk about the “body-rush” they feel after doing pilates, and I experienced a long-lasting wave of that after a class this […]

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Stephen Omohundro, PhD (physics); president, Self-Aware Systems, Palo Alto, CA

Fire Walking Ceremony | Originally uploaded by Skip the Filler.

I thought I’d share the powerful experience I had at a Tony […]

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In 1969, Charles Tart coined the term “altered states of consciousness,” and his book of the same name remains a classic in transpersonal psychology. Now the former University of California at Davis prof operates The Archives of Scientists’ Transcendent […]

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Raquel Tavares, Shala Yoga, San Francisco

When I teach my yoga classes, I often say: “Focus on the point where your exhalations meet your inhalations.”

It seems to be a very static point. A place where you […]

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