Amy Eyrie

Hey, Yoga Girl!

by Amy Eyrie 11.29.2011

As yoga grows in the West, we see a creative, crazy and sometimes disturbing integration of ancient spiritual practices and modern, western capitalism. In the case of Yoga clothing retailer Lululemon Athletica who promoted Ayn Rand’s selfish philosophy called Objectivism on their bags by asking “Who is John Galt?” (a character in the novel Atlas [...]

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Earth Meditation

by Amy Eyrie 11.13.2011

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle Earth is a living, breathing biosphere of energy, supporting us as we grow and evolve. We are creatures of magnetism [...]

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Uncontacted Tribes: The Last Free People on the Planet?

by Amy Eyrie 09.11.2011

It’s hard to believe, but indigenous tribes continue to exist on our planet. These tribes have never had contact with the Internet, iPads, mass-produced food, manufactured drugs, rock & roll, rapid transportation, TV and the other myriad wonders and vices of our society. And like many living beings we encounter, their continued existence is in [...]

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The Dreamtime: Aboriginal Wisdom

by Amy Eyrie 07.05.2011

The tribal wisdom of the Earth was sealed off, like an insect caught in amber, for 40,000 years, then given to us in the form of Aboriginal Wisdom. The indigenous Australians have 230 languages and countless dialects, but all of them speak of The Dreaming. The Aboriginal people did not use letters or write books, they [...]

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Change: Living in the Sweet Hereafter

by Amy Eyrie 04.19.2011

“I wonder if you realize that all of us … me, the children who survived, the children who didn’t – that we’re all citizens of a different town now… a town of people living in the sweet hereafter. “ — Russell Banks Change transforms our very core— our identity. As we relate to others, we [...]

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Healing the Demon of Fear

by Amy Eyrie 03.17.2011

The ancient Tibetans thought of fear, obsession, illness, and even unrealistic hopes as demons that must be faced and dissolved for our own safety and well-being. As the Japanese people face the unfathomable loss caused by the tsunami and now the fear of nuclear meltdown, we empathize with their pain and loss. Every one of [...]

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The Science of Beauty: Interview with Michelle Reyes MD

by Amy Eyrie 02.28.2011

Finding the balance between an organic approach to health and beauty verses dancing on the knife’s edge of technology can be tricky. We’ve all seen celebrities who’ve gone too far in their quest for eternal youth, whose appearance is strange and even disturbing. On the other hand, indigenous tribe’s people, aging naturally in a purely [...]

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Memo to Bikram: India Wants Her Yoga Back!

by Amy Eyrie 02.14.2011

The government of India has decided to take a giant leap into cyberspace. In an effort to thwart future copyright claims by rogue gurus like Bikram Choudhury, who annoyed Indian officials in 2003 when he managed to copyright a sequence of 26 yoga asanas in the U.S., the Indian government will launch a massive yoga [...]

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Could Iodine deficiency lead to cancer?

by Amy Eyrie 02.12.2011

Could Iodine deficiency lead to cancer? Dr. Jorge D. Flechas MD argues that Iodine deficiency is widespread in the United States and that “the absence of Iodine in the human body is a promoter of cancer.” Although vegetables are a good source of Iodine, over-farming has stripped the soil of minerals critical to Thyroid function such [...]

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The Waiting Room: Practicing Patience

by Amy Eyrie 01.27.2011

Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it — Eknath Easwaran Waiting is a strange Bardo or intermediate state. Every once in a while we are derailed from our usual activity and find ourselves forced to wait, maybe in a doctor’s office, [...]

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Happy New Year Numerology!

by Amy Eyrie 01.13.2011

For the Chaldean Magi or priest scribes, magic and science were not at odds. Math was a divine language used to describe the movements of the cosmos and a way to decode the esoteric meaning behind existence. The Chaldeans devised ancient divination systems such as astrology and numerology and introduced important mathematical principles including positional [...]

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