Open Hearts Yoga with Cindi Galas and Boyd Marks

   

 We will offer Yoga classes as soon as our space is available.

   Enjoy this grand city!

 

   Cindi and Boyd participate in the Transcendental Meditation community.

Exerpt from PHILIP GOLDBERG’s story on:        Transcendental Meditation: Topping The Bestseller List Since 1975

……. psychiatrist, Norman E. Rosenthal, with "Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation."

 ... again science confers credibility. …Rosenthal has 30 years of distinguished clinical research and more than 200 scholarly articles under his belt. And by now TM has been the subject of over 300 peer-reviewed articles. The book describes the most recent findings, many of them involving common maladies such as ADHD, PTSD and hypertension, but not limited to medical conditions.
That meditation is good for you is no longer an eye-opening news flash…. In this era of soaring anxiety, depression and health costs, perhaps the only people who don't think that's a good thing are the makers of pharmaceuticals.

…….consequence of the popularization of meditation was the rise of imitation practices...  The downside is that something vital can be lost in translation, thereby diminishing their effectiveness. Modernizing the language is one thing, but tinkering with the ingredients of a meditation practice is not unlike changing a medical formula or a food recipe.

Finally, in the past, all forms of meditation were lumped together as if their differences were inconsequential. People who should have known better assumed that the initial TM data could be applied to just about anything that resembled meditation…..Recent findings have corrected that mistake to a large extent, and current researchers are sorting out which practices produce which results under which circumstances.

…we have to proceed with care and discernment, assimilating the methods without obscuring or dishonoring their roots. If we get careless, we can dilute them, corrupt them and otherwise fail to harness their full potential. It's happened to some extent already, and it's happening as we speak in the trendy world of yoga studios, where complex and profound teachings are being reduced to fitness exercises. 

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