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karen armstrong & the charter for compassion

A couple of years ago, ascent spoke to religious scholar Karen Armstrong about the global necessity for the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have done to you. "Compassion is the core value of all the major world religions," she said. "It's the ability to feel for others, ...

michael franti in conversation

It’s hard to miss Michael Franti: super tall, dreaded, constantly walking the Earth without shoes and with a smile that could, as ascent/timeless staffer Chris McCann found out during last week’s concert in Montreal, literally turn a crowd into a hot, dancing pool of joy. Musician, activist, poet and yogi, Michael ...

sharon salzberg offers lovingkindness workshop in toronto

“For kindness to be more fully realized, it needs to be distinguished from being ineffectual or meek. It also needs to be infused with wisdom, supported by courage, and threaded with balance.” -Sharon Salzberg, The Kindness Handbook Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg will be appearing in Toronto for a public lecture and ...

yoga in the mountains: fall 2008 ascent intensive

“I create my day,” said ascent Intensive participant Cathy Anne Pachnowski of Edmonton, Alberta. “I have the power within me to create whatever kind of day I chose. Yoga is about finding that point of choice and taking responsibility for how I use my energy in each new moment.” This ...

behind the scenes: the memory issue

We just sent the winter issue, on the theme of memory, to the printer today! It will be available on newsstands at the end of November (and should be arriving in subscribers' mailboxes a little sooner). This is what you have to look forward to: an exclusive interview with yoga ...

growing community through photography

This weekend, rad'a hosted an art opening for an In Focus event, "Femmes dans la Mire." The event is the third in a series of international exhibits originating in Tanzania. On a rainy Saturday night, rad'a drew a large crowd of friends, family and supporters of the refugee and ...

2 timeless titles among “quintessential” yoga books!

The Everything Yoga blog has compiled a list of yoga books to take your practice to the next level, and included are timeless' Inner Life of Asanas (a compilation of Swami Lalitananda's Hidden Language columns in ascent) and Hatha Yoga: The Hidden Language. Of course, we've known along that these ...

dispatch from nyc: omega’s 2008 being yoga conference

On the weekend of October 10-12, Manhattan's Sheraton Hotel was filled with yogis and yoginis eager to practise with their favorite teachers. The Omega Institute hosted their annual "Being Yoga" conference in New York City where the growing East Coast yoga community showed up in large numbers . As official ...

taking yoga to the streets

ascent magazine sponsored Ottawa-based yoga teacher, Michael McCarthy, for a weekend Street Yoga teacher training course. Here, Michael writes about his learnings and insights from the weekend. Over the coming months, Michael will contribute to the ascent blog and share how he integrates the training into his teaching practice. Mark Lilly, ...

a yoga routine just for sarah palin!

I wasn't checking my blog or news feeds over the holiday weekend, but when I plugged back in today, I saw the yoga blogosphere was ablaze with discussion about a new yoga video for Sarah Palin. The Huffington Post columnist and "coolest yoga instructor ever," Tara Stiles, created a yoga ...