The regular practice of Yoga, breathing techniques, and meditation has improved self-control and reduced stress in incarcerated youth, with potentially wide-ranging impact on juvenile delinquency and community crime and violence. Through the regular practice of Yoga, breath work, and meditation, Niroga is teaching Bay Area youth essential life skills. Jointly funded by Alameda County’s Probation […]
Archive | November, 2006
Studies Prove That Learning Meditation & Self Hypnosis Techniques Work For Stress Relief Management
Stress has proved to be a killer than more ways than anyone had imagined. Three decades ago it was published in Time Magazine “Stress is now known to be a major contributor, either directly or indirectly, to coronary heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidental injuries, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide—six of the leading causes […]
Best Bets: Bird-watching, storytelling or meditation
Harriers and larkspurs and owls, oh my! Now that the trees stand naked in the breeze, there’s a lot more to see of our feathered friends. Birders Tom Crepet and Jane Vecchione will lead a bird walk from 1:30 p.m. to dusk today at the Blue Chip Farm and former Galeville Airport. The walks begins […]
To make a peaceful world, start with yourself
AS I OBSERVE world events and sense the pervading fear that’s been in the air since 2001, I find myself thinking about what one individual can do. And the thought occurs that each one of us has the potential to be an effective instrument of peace merely by refining and expanding our consciousness. This doesn’t […]
Meditation helps heal body, mind
Jim McLaughlin has lived his life as a practical man. He’s a business consultant who served 10 years in the U.S. Navy, has never used illegal drugs, has been married 32 years and has two children, both professionals. Buddhist meditation wasn’t on his radar when he started trying to tame some of the chaos in […]
Yoga, meditation used to help inmates
Lama Chuck Stanford started visiting a small group of Buddhist inmates in Kansas about six years ago.”Then word got around that that I was doing this,” Stanford says, “and I started getting calls from prison chaplains around here telling me they had Buddhist inmates interested in getting groups going.” Now, Stanford, of the Rime Buddhist […]