Health & Wellness

Chakras: Get to Know Your 7 Energy Centers
Tap into your physical and spiritual sides to improve your health and emotional well-being
Chakra theory is a holistic paradigm that includes fields like psychology, physiology, astrology, and energy anatomy (how prana moves through the body). It also considers naturalistic elements such as color and sound. Chakra theory examines the interaction between the whole and the part, and can also be called holistic awareness. The system encompasses every level of human nature from the intangible spirit to the tangible atom and everything in between.

Breakfast at Tassajara: 2 Tasty Vegetarian Recipes
How to make a Vegetarian Sponge Cake Omelet and Vegetarian Ginger Muffins for breakfast.
Enjoy vegetarian breakfast recipes for Sponge Cake Omelet and Ginger Muffins from Edward Espe Brown's new book, The Complete Tassajara Cookbook.

Depression and Back: Poet Susan Polis Schutz' Journey
Schutz, a renowned poet, author, activist and filmmaker, has some words of comfort and advice for the millions of people suffering with depression.
For the millions of people diagnosed with depression, and the untold others who are suffering without realizing why, renowned poet, author, activist and filmmaker Susan Polis Schutz has some words of comfort and advice. A whole book of words, actually, written during Susan's own three-year struggle with the debilitating illness.

56 Pounds and Counting - How Julia Gray Shed Her Weight and Her Struggles
After five years of weight gain, anxiety and sleep deprivation, Gray found support and decided to make a change.
Julia Gray's story about turning to Gaiam fitness, yoga and meditation DVDs to lose weight and fight insomnia following her battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after the 9/11 terrorists attacks.