by The Well | Jul 24, 2023 | General
Yoga in the West has an abundance of techniques available on the internet, or at your neighborhood Yoga studio, to anyone who wants to try them. The ‘how’ of doing physical postures is everywhere. What’s missing in mainstream Yoga is the ‘why.’ There are actually...
by The Well | Jul 17, 2023 | Guest Blog, Meditation
Guest blog by Carrie Heeter, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University Scientists found that doing an ancient Buddhist loving-kindness meditation five days per week for three months resulted in improvements in seven aspects of psychological distress. What...
by The Well | Jul 16, 2023 | General
Written by the Executive Director of the Yoga Well Institute, Chase Bossart, this article first appeared in the “International Journal of Yoga Therapists (IJYT). The violin is a popular instrument in South India just as it is in the U.S. However, the way it is played...
by The Well | Jul 7, 2023 | General, YogaSutras
Current scholarship on Patañjali’s Yogasūtra holds that it was composed around 400 CE in India, in Sanskrit, in a style known as sūtra. This means the text, which is the core presentation of Yoga as a path of living or as a practice in life, uses as few words as...
by The Well | Jun 26, 2023 | Foundations of Yoga Therapy, Guest Blog, Meditation
Guest blog by Carrie Heeter, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University | Yoga Philosophy in Daily Life: Treasure Hunters In Indiana Jones movies actor Harrison Ford plays Dr. Jones—an archeologist and part-time anthropologist searching for ancient treasure. ...
