E D I T O R S W O R D
YOGItimes magazine for the modern yogi
October
It is not very often that I write my Editor’s Word column based on current events, preferring instead to relate it to what is happening within our pages and in our own community. However, since one of our dreams is to join the entire world into one community, recent circumstances – particularly the recent atrocityies in Russia – have persuaded me to reconsider.

Begging your indulgence, I shall deviate just this once.
I am confident that most of our readers find it appalling that somehow, in some inconceivable way, the human mind can misconstrue an ideology, a religion, an ethos or an edict to the extent thaty they can justify purpetrating an act of such despicable mayhem - with children as the prime victims, no less! That any member of the human race, so capable of creating beauty, reasoning and complex thought could warrant such actions is simply incomprehensible.

As we were working on gathering information for our “Yoga Around the World” issue, I thought of how an individual’s national origin – whether Chinese, Tibetan, American, Japanese, French or any other – is irrelevant through the eyes of yoga; how simple and beautiful it would be if we were all in savasana, our bodies and minds relaxed, shedding away the labels that separate us from the time we are born. Our divine interconnection would shine without boundaries on the flow of our ujayi breath, and our souls could only unite and resonate with our powerful OM. Perhaps I am nothing more than a wistful Pollyanna in sweat pants, but this is my dream.

Namaste,