“the answer might seem obvious: of course yoga is appropriate—why else would thirty-six million of us be spending billions of dollars every year on… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada),… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
“If you ask an average yoga teacher what yoga is, you usually get a little talk on “union” and how the practice is five… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
