The yoga world still seems to be buzzing with excitement as, according to a report in the Huffington Post May 8th 2013, the number of people practicing yoga is on the increase. A whopping 30% in the past 4 years, by all accounts, according to a survey by the ‘Yoga Journal’ magazine. This means that the number of Americans practicing is somewhere in the order of 20 million! I suspect that it is much higher than this however, since many seniors practicing would probably not hav

​ Earlier this year, beloved teacher Goswami Kriyananda left his physical body. No longer are there opportunities to sit at his feet and have a dialogue about the science of yoga and mysticism, face-to-face. For decades, he has taught what he had embodied by his guru Sri Shelly Trimmer at his tiny ashram in Pennsylvania. Shelly never wrote a book but shared what he had learned with Kriyananda from his guru Yogananda in the oral tradition. Kriyananda used to joke about leavin