May 2012
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Ravi Interviewed by Integral Yoga Magazine →
In an issue about the yoga of business, IYM learns about Leadership Yoga and my ideas about the Hierarchy of Human Needs and the Yogic Chakra System.
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Decreased Nocturnal Awakenings re: Bikram Yoga →
Download my 2012 research paper from an open-source neuro journal on how Bikram’s hot Yoga affects sleep quality.
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Innovators love Yoga (and you should too) →
Download my 2010 paper in Peter Drucker’s leadership journal on how Yoga can improve work-related outcomes like stress, self-regulation, and creativity.
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May 2011
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A Cruel Midwife
This world is a cruel midwife to deliver us. Of what use is the illusion of birth? That celebrates our moment of separation, And has the audacity to call it a promising beginning. Of what use is a body with wings? This heart was not meant for flight, Not in the canopy of hollow clouds, Nor riding into the first break of sunlight. For a lifetime spent searching abroad Brings worn shoes and tired...
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To turn down the noise of the world.
When and how does one turn down the noise of the world? Is there a volume knob, aside from that great one planted in the farthest reaches of man’s obscured soul? Where does the music cease and the sound of life begin? I have heard melodies and harmonies such that I am full. All I crave for is to find the humor in my own song: the clamor of pant legs clumsily brushing against each other, dancing to...
March 2011
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The Call of Love
Beloved One, For how long have you wandered in darkness? Searched in mountains and valleys For a love that knows no death?
For how many years have you heard the call? Piercing the noise of your city, Calling you back to the home of your eternal love?
How much longer, dear soul, can you resist A devotion that will never end? And the hymn that hums in the air you breathe?
Will you rise...
July 2010
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Can yoga solve India's caste problem? →
A CNN feature I wrote about how Yoga practice and philosophy can improve issues of social justice.
June 2010
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It...”
– A favorite quote by Albert Einstein
May 2010
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March 2010
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“It is by studying the microcosm that we can understand the macrocosm; it is...”
– Alain Danielou on Yoga / click here for more. 