HEALTH
Niroga Institute is a non-profit Center for Integral Health and Development dedicated to providing life skills to at-risk and underserved individuals and families through Yoga. With over 50 Certified Yoga Teachers in the Yoga Corps, they are reaching out to several hundred people a week, including homeless, delinquent and incarcerated youth, people in rehab and recovery, and seniors. In addition to increasing strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance we help self-transformation by enhancing self-control and self-awareness, stress resilience and anger management - peace within leading to universal peace. You can hear directly from Niroga's students in this 8-minute video highlighting their work with at-risk youth.
The Niroga Institute brings the benefits of yoga to minority and at-risk communities.
LIFE
Activism used to be all about what was wrong. Now, from executive suites to department stores, "new activists" are showing us how to get things right.
Activism is no longer framed by boycotts and confrontations. People are finding positive new ways to convey the message of social, economic and political change. Watch videos from new activists like anti-corporate pranksters The Yes Men; comedian Reverend Billy; and Thailand's most prominent AIDS awareness campaigner, Mr. Condom.
NEWS & MEDIA
Esoteric practises, like burying manure inside cows’ horns, has put many people off biodynamic agriculture. Now the sensational flavour—and ecological benefits—of biodynamic produce is winning them over.
BUSINESS
The Tata Group, India’s largest conglomerate, spends millions each year on education, renewable energy, health care and charity. Can the Tata brand of compassionate capitalism take on-and take over-the global economy?
ENERGY
A turn for the betterNew technology and innovative thinking are spinning old tires into new products.
SCIENCE
Toxins like radon and even DDT may have beneficial effects at very low doses.
SPIRIT
Three stories about people who have confronted tragedy yet managed to see a way to get beyond rage and revenge and move toward reconciliation.
Simon Atem tells the story of how he escaped a war in Sudan. Now he plans to build a school where kids learn about right and wrong. Here he tells us why his story is so important.
COMMENTARIES
Women can lead the way from the survival of the fittest to the survival of the connected.
COLUMNS
Life: A walker’s guideHow to honour and care for the path you're on.
How social investors can help bring about corporate and political change.
One marshmallow or twoHow self control can make us happy.
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