Yoga and the Biology of Transcendence: Part One

“The yogis have said for ages that spiritual practice changes the brain, and they have a very systematic method for doing so… The Yoga Sutra is a manual for how to do this”.       Joan Shivarpita Harrigan, director of Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care(How to Boost Brain Power, Yoga Journal, October 2008) According to Yogic tradition, a…

Yoga and The Biology of Transcendence: Part Four

Nature has granted us the choice to manage our thoughts from fear, cortical overload and hours of depressed immunity, towards peace of mind, harmony, and healing. Kundalini, Raja and many other schools of yoga, represent a “how to manual” to achieve our highest evolutionary destiny. They teach us to climb the limbs of the primitive brains towards our own transcendent potential.