July 2003 contents

Thoughts

Nurturing the whole child
- Savita Burke

Baby om
- Laura Staton and Sarah Perron

The lama in the lab
- Daniel Goleman

CNM visits a homeopathic hospital in Calcutta
- Sarah Merson

Yoga stories: the playground
- George

Reflections in India
- Lynn Carole

Sanskrit wisdom

Ways with asanas: Bharadvaajaasana
- Mira Mehta

From Lama in the lab: “...While modern science has focused on formulating ingenious chemical compounds to help us overcome toxic emotions, Buddhism offers a different, albeit far more labour intensive, route: methods for training the mind.” “...In other words, the real measure of spiritual development lies in how well a person manages disturbing emotions such as anger and jealousy - not in attaining rarified states during meditation...” Desikachars: “You have to look at the person in totality. If you want to talk about transformation, transformation is not reading a book and picking some asanas and doing them...” “The most important thing in yoga is the mind. Change the mind and the human system changes.”   ”

Letters/stop press

Interview with the Desikachars
- Lisa Miriam Cherry

Like a firefly
- Kate Petty

Yoga for children
- Bel Gibbs

Yoga in Shetland
- Jackie Le Brocq

Ask Ruth
- Ruth Gilmore PhD

A spiritual almanac
- Mark Forstater and Jo Manuel

The Column: hyperflexibility
- Sarah Mackintosh

Watercress
- The Watercress Alliance

Vegetarian cuisine: watercress
- The Watercress Alliance

In the yogi/ni’s garden
- Janita

July front cover photograph by Josh Titus, courtesy of the book Baby Om by Laura Staton and Sarah Perron