Author name: Zach Beach

Dating ideas while staying safe from COVID

8 First Date Ideas for When You’re Sheltering-in-Place

Reading Time: 3 minutes We are officially heading into month 10 of the pandemic and this virus has upended every area of our life, especially how and when we can go on first dates. Social distancing, face masks and regular hand-washing are part of our new normal now, and many of the public gatherings we would normally go on

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Why Do Yoga and Meditation Teachers Focus So Much on the Breath?

Reading Time: 4 minutes “Okay everyone, let’s all focus on our breath.” It is an instruction we almost always hear at the beginning of a meditation or yoga class. It seems like an important and vital thing to do, but few teachers go into the specifics of exactly why we are focusing on the breath in the first place.

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Six Steps Towards More Spiritual Sex

Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the biggest splits in modern society is the division between the spiritual and the material. Sensual pleasures are often seen as an obstacle to or a distraction from more noble spiritual pursuits. But once we release the sexual shame that has been passed down through a few millennia of repression, we realize there

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The Most Important Thing We Can Do Right Now

Reading Time: 6 minutes It is incredible how quickly the mind equilibrates. News or events that initially seem quite shocking soon turn into, “Well, that’s just the way it is.” I recently experienced this firsthand when my social media stream became full of apocalyptic pictures revealing the orange sky shrouding much of California and Oregon. Just like my first

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The Second Wing of Our Spiritual Awakening

Reading Time: 2 minutes In my last blog post, I discussed how remaining present, even in the face of pain, is part of our spiritual awakening. Our task is to become wholehearted participants in life, and that means increasing our capacity to be with what is. However, what I neglected to mention was that our practice of being present,

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