Soul's Code

Single White Female, Jihad's newest martyrs; good and bad news about your brain

America's newest John Walker Lindh: Single mom in Colorado undergoes religious conversion online
Bikram goes naked, and underground: "Hot nude yoga" is making a scene in NY, LA, San Fran and Salt Lake City
Leading atheists tag-team the Pope: Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins want to charge [...]

A priest and psychotherapist finds answers in Genesis, the work of Carl Jung and the science of meditation

BY DAVID RICKEY — Hate crimes are nothing new. They have been around ever since the homo sapien emerged from its evolutionary forebears.  Animals have an instinctive "fight or flight" response built into their brain structure.
Human beings, as [...]

Confessions from a job management coach on how to use surrender, service and grace to make your next career move
GUEST COLUMN: JEFF ROBINSON — From July 2005 until approximately April 2006, I began a spiritual transformation that changed the course of my life in some amazing and often difficult ways, and which continues to this [...]

Vanity Fair devotes 20 pages to The World's Greatest Yoga Masters

SOUL'S CODE — The currency of America's highest-end celeb zine is, in a word, power. Vanity Fair's entire franchise is to portray power as A) good looks, B) political status and C) financial bling. Now they've discovered D: power can show up, even in their dimension, [...]

"The process of dying, naturally, involves letting go. During full-body relaxation in yoga, called corpse pose, letting go is voluntary."

GUEST COLUMN: HEATHER GREAVES — Yoga teaches us to journey inside and become an observer, showing us how to be relaxed yet alert.   Through yoga we practice the art of letting go.
The word YOGA can conjure images [...]

Pilates is part of the training program of every professional sports team in America. It is also a meditation
BY PAUL KAIHLA — Some people don't go to a gym at all. Some go to a gym, but they do their own thing, in their own silo of solo, whatever. For two decades, I was one [...]

"I spent a month at B.K.S. Iyengar's yoga retreat, and my body has openings that were never there before"
BY RENEE TAVARES — We're wrapping it up here, only two more classes with the best yoga teacher I've experienced, Geetaji Iyengar, the daughter of B.K.S. I feel my body has openings that weren't there — [...]

My life-long dream was to meet the greatest yoga teacher in the world. I'm living it this month at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India
BY RENEE TAVARES — I guess you could say that B.K.S. Iyengar is my "personal god," not that I believe in a god as an individual. But [...]

A dude doing a headstand in Times Square and a woman striking a tree pose in the ocean. Meet our meditation junkies!
For the latest Soul's Code photo contest we asked readers to submit photos of themselves doing their spiritual thing — yoga, pilates, meditation, whatever — anywhere but where we'd expect to typically see them. [...]

A six-part Soul's Code series by RAQUEL TAVARES, both author — and model. Born in Brazil, she learned yoga from her mother as a child. Raquel is a certified Ashtanga instructor.
Introduction: Love and Yoga
The meaning of the word "yoga," like the meaning of word "love," has been butchered. The cynicism prevalent in America, coupled with [...]