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The Festival That Prays to the Setting Sun
The Wife Who Left the Sun
The Day Death Came to Dinner
Why Your Festival Date Doesn’t Match Your Cousin’s
Nobody Hands You a Program: Your First Visit to a Hindu Temple
A Mandir Can Be One Shelf
The Day the Temple Builds a Mountain of Food
When the Weather Turns, Ayurveda Starts in the Kitchen
The Hardest Pose Is the One Where You Lie Down
You’re Not Bad at Meditation
The Boy Who Refused Death’s Offer
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Yoga
The Hardest Pose Is the One Where You Lie Down
It looks like a nap. It’s the pose most people skip, and the one many teachers call the hardest. Why Savasana matters, and how to…
Yoga Trends – Kitten Yoga
You may have heard about the number of sweeping yoga trends the past couple of months. Most famously, there’s Goat yoga, but you…
Meditation
You’re Not Bad at Meditation
Your mind won’t stop, and you think that means you’re bad at meditation. It doesn’t. A plain way to start, on a kitchen chair, in…
What Do We Actually Know About Mindfulness?
Everywhere you go in modern-day society we hear about the benefits that mediation and the act of mindfulness provides. The…
Hinduism
Why Your Festival Date Doesn’t Match Your Cousin’s
Why does your festival date differ from your cousin’s in Hyderabad? A plain-English guide to the Panchang and its five parts.
Nobody Hands You a Program: Your First Visit to a Hindu Temple
Nobody hands you a program at a Hindu temple. Here is what actually happens on your first visit, and how to feel at home.