Awakin Calls

The yoga class for new mothers had dissolved into full cacophony -- every baby crying at once, every mother off her mat, nursing, bouncing. Then: "All mamas, Tree Pose." Put the babies on the mat. Go still. How cold, she thought. How insensitive. B..... more

"In my youth, I was a rebel who challenged the status quo and wrote three volumes of poetry dedicated to love and humanity. I have always been a seeker for meaning and purpose. Yet, somewhere between Saigon and Wall Street, the poet within me went in... more

When he was a boy in Kampala, his mother had a saying: "If you have nothing to say, keep quiet. If you have nothing to do, go to sleep." On the long, hot afternoons when she sent him to nap, the restless child could not sleep — so he lay awake ...

"Everyone is an invited guest of the universe," Lobsang Phuntsok tells the 125 children of his community in the Himalayas every day. He means it — because he spent most of his childhood being told the opposite. Born in secret in 1971 in Arunach...

“Gandhi showed that the law of nonviolence was for all times -- truth-force and soul-force are the most potent forces for change ever discovered,” says Dr. Veena Howard, a distinguished scholar, author, and speaker specializing in nonviol...

Two decades ago, in her early days as a healer, Margaretta "Maggie" McIlvaine had supported patients through invasive surgeries, monitoring energy fields and chakra systems. But while standing beside a client's exposed heart at a hospital in Charlott... more

As a teenager, Cortland Dahl once fainted on stage from the sheer force of his social anxiety. That debilitating phobia would become the unlikely doorway to a life spent in Himalayan retreat caves, neuroscience laboratories, and meditation halls on s... more

"Each of us is on a journey back to the Love that we already are — whether we recognize it or not. The gift and challenge of being human is that suffering, in all its forms, can become a doorway Home." – Melinda Edwards, MD Melinda Edwar...