Journal
Here you'll find writing on mindfulness, neuroscience, mental health, physical wellbeing, and yoga.
These topics often overlap: attention, behaviour and embodiment are all part of the same ecosystem of experience, and the aim here is to explore those connections in a thoughtful and practical way. Some posts draw from research, others from lived experience and teaching. The intention is to share ideas that are useful, considered, and occasionally a bit different from what is typically said.
January 9, 2012
by Karen MacKenzie and Alissa Martin In last Thursday’s NY Times, author William J. Broad wrote an article about the shadow-side of yoga: the injuries that […]
December 21, 2011
There is something that I look forward to every year at Christmas. It is not the food, the presents, the fun or even the company for […]
November 30, 2011
The holiday season has kicked off in its usual high voltage style. What will you do to manage the demands of work, family and sometimes ‘impossible’ […]
November 17, 2011
We all face them at some point. Sometimes purposefully (as in the 30 day challenge) and sometimes by circumstance. What we do with them is up […]
November 2, 2011
With endings, come beginnings. With new beginnings, an end must occur. Change is inevitable in life. At Kushala Yoga there have been many exciting endings and […]
October 15, 2011
It is with much excitement that we announce (and a little nostalgia) that Kula Yoga is changing its name to Kushala Yoga, effective immediately.