Summer is a season of renewal, and a great time to highlight pH balance, a critical factor in overall health, including maintaining a healthy digestive system, glowing skin, and a strong immune system. Like most things in life, it’s all about balance – in this case, between the level of acidity and alkalinity in your body. If [...]
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Find Out What You Want – Step #7
“God damn me!” I thought to myself today. We had such a splendid fight today, Chris and I, and I was so right! Oh, I was so sure of it, too, sitting in my studio, mulling over what he said and what his problem was and how he screwed up and how he really needs [...]
The Kaiut Method: Yoga For People Who Hate Yoga (Part 1)
By Kiri Westby, with Ed and Deb Shapiro, who all attended the yoga class described here. Doing yoga with Francisco Kaiut is doing yoga from the inside out. In fact, to say the word “doing” is already too active, too aggressive, as it’s more of an un-doing. I am someone who has never felt very [...]
Tornadoes, Bombings, and Kidnappings – Making Sense Out of Tragedies (Part 1)
In what seems to be a period of an unprecedented amount of tragedies, we ask what is happening with our planet and with the people in our world? Tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and super storms; bombings, kidnapping, civil wars, battles over land and beliefs, and centuries’ old sectarian violence is all we hear about. Today’s news [...]
Confessions of a Former Vision Board Junkie
By Sarah Anne Stewart For a good portion of my life, I was a Vision Board junkie. I wrote goals and affirmations, sketched pictures, snapped photos, and pasted dozens of magazine pictures onto huge, intricately color-coded collages. My “vision of the future” had to be precise, and represent all the things I was determined to [...]
Los Angeles: Join Rev. Ed Bacon at the filming of new OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) show, 6/6/13!
Join us this Thursday in Venice Beach, CA for the filming of HELP DESK, a new television show on the Oprah Winfrey Network! This show features renowned self-help experts making themselves available in public spaces to provide advice to anyone who needs it. Help Desk is a deeply substantive series that grounds some of the [...]
Honoring My Mother on the Anniversary of Her Passing
It’s a practice of healing and cleansing, one of renewal and expansion. As the shift happens, a rawness sets in. It is a total unshielding of spirit/heart/energy…whatever you choose to call it, it really doesn’t matter as it is one in the same. Once the breakthrough has taken place through yoga, you can’t hide. Today [...]
How to Move from Anger to Forgiveness
Why forgive? How can we move from anger and hatred to compassion, clarity, and awareness? I made this video to share with you how I came to understand forgiveness: Through a practice of powerful expressive meditation techniques I healed my heart and became more aware of my choices. I could put my energy into anger [...]
The One Diet That Can Cure Most Disease: Part 1
If I told you there was one diet that could cure arthritis, fatigue, irritable bowel, reflux, chronic allergies, eczema, psoriasis, autoimmune disease, diabetes, heart disease, migraines, depression, attention deficit disorder, and occasionally even autism and that it could help you lose weight quickly and easily without cravings, suffering, or deprivation, you might wonder if Dr. [...]
Elephant in the Room: Fighting Depression for My Daughter’s Sake
Dear Cora Most of my life I’ve suffered from a form of depression stemming from a profound existential disappointment with life, the world, and especially with humanity which makes it nearly impossible to participate in the every day world of work that most people take for granted without getting even more down and depressed. With [...]
