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Beliefnet published a great package on hands-on healing therapies yesterday. You might get re-energized by taking a peek.

Thanks to Daily Candy for informing me of the grand opening of a new Thai Privilege Spa in downtown Manhattan. It sounds incredible. The photos of models on massage tables at the Bangkok-based company’s other facilities are sexy and lush. In truth, I rather dislike these sorts of places. Whenever I’ve gone–on assignment for magazines…

Thank you for all the sincere and supportive posts on the item I wrote last week about Alcoholics Anonymous. Beliefnet has an ongoing 12-Step Spirituality support group. And here‘s the last piece we ran about Buddhism and the 12 Steps, accompanied by excellent AA-related links including Paul O’Donnell’s interview with Susan Cheever about her biography…

Astrologer Shelley Ackerman is sending an email to friends entitled “In Vino Veritas.” In it, she says Mel Gibson’s astrological chart (which she discussed in The National Council for Geocosmic Research newsletter two and a half years ago when “Passion of the Christ” was released) is helpful now in understanding Gibson’s recent arrest and damning…

You know your kids are in a lefty summer day camp when the music teacher turns to the gathered parents at the final concert and says, “Now we’re going to sing a song that I learned in Cuba.” After the Cuban number, the kids sang a truly gorgeous hymn by Jewel called “Hands.” It made…

In case you missed it, here‘s a recently repackaged piece I wrote for Beliefnet on ways to have a more spiritual summer. Unplug the television, swim in real water, gaze at the night sky, make presents for those you love, consider where you are burning out…these tips and more!

High on my list of most inspiring people is Bill Hubert, a Wichita, Kansas, English teacher and martial artist who developed a truly amazing method of exercise for school kids that combines Brain Gym, juggling, and vision therapy. Studies show that when children learn Bal-a-Vis-X (his funny name for it), their reading scores improve. Here’s…

“In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot–and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes…

Ascent, the magazine that promises “Yoga for an Inspired Life” in each quarterly issue, is different from any yoga mag I’ve seen. Published in Canada by Swami Sivananda Radha since 1969, the issue currently on stands (with generous excerpts online) features editor Sarah E. Truman’s penetrating interview with the sixth man to walk on the…

This year, I’m really appreciating Quantum’s Buzz Away Extreme, a natural insect repellent that provides protection from ticks for two hours and sends mosquitoes, gnats, and fleas (fleas?) packing for three-and-a-half to eight hours! The oils of geranium, cedarwood, citronella, lemongrass, and peppermint create a great fragrance. I went to the health food store and…
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