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The editorial staff of Beliefnet.com is hard at work on a site redesign and expansion that will offer all kinds of fascinating new features throughout the next year. Because of the stress that they’re all under, my editor Valerie won’t be able to take the time to put photographs in my blog for awhile. I’ve…

Deva Premal and Miten performed at Omega’s yoga conference, and led several chants. Miten sang “All Are Welcome Here,” the final song on this album, but Deva Premal’s best received work is on this CD (kind of a massage therapy classic) and it is available through Amazon.

“I wake every morning feeling like I’m living in a miracle – where spirituality, creativity, work, and love have all come to mean the same thing. My life has been shaped by mantras; I have become their servant.” – Deva Premal

I heard yoga teacher John Friend deliver the keynote address at the Omega Institute’s “Path of Yoga” conference at a Sheraton Hotel in New York City last Friday. This conference is always a nice one, drawing well-regarded yoga practitioners like Kofi Busia, Baron Baptiste, Cyndi Lee, and Seane Corn, and Lilias Folan. Friend’s lecture was…

Whoah, baby! Have a look at this off-the-wall inverted posture.

I noticed a little sign on the cooler shelf today that essentially said, “Sorry, we’re trying to keep bottles of G.T. Dave’s Kombucha tea in stock, but you guys keep buying us out. Bear with us.” On his website, G.T. Dave describes the environment in which his popular tea is fermented: Each batch is gently…

“Tibetan Prayer Flags Inside!” Sure enough, inside the International Campaign for Tibet’s direct mail envelope (which arrived at my home today), is a neatly folded two-inch square prayer flag garland. How could one not send money back?

How fascinating that so many of us have felt unprepared when asked to sputter life wisdom, baby blessings, and parenting advice at spiritual baby showers. Let’s help each other with good material! Send your suggestions in! Here are a few of my favorites to get you started. “Sleep when the baby sleeps.” That’s an old…

You know, this Chattering Mind blog is currently attracting some 17,000 unique visitors a month. And usually, you readers are a relatively quiet bunch. But inspiring chatter was indeed released by my three-part series on the clutter we keep in our closets and basements! My play-ZZTop-to-your-stagnating-garbage suggestion really hit ya’ll in the right spot! I…

Here’s a letter–masterful in its straightforward, noncommital, but compassionate wording–written by Senator Barack Obama to constituent Ken Goze regarding the VA’s continued refusal to allow the Wiccan pentacle on the gravestones of Wiccans buried in veteran cemetaries. This letter, posted on a Wiccan website (we haven’t confirmed the letter’s veracity, but have no reason to…
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