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Sleep
Progressive Muscle Relaxation: From Jacobson's Galvanometer to a Clinic in Timișoara
For three weeks, at a pulmonary rehabilitation centre in Timișoara, in western Romania, twenty-two adults with cystic fibrosis ...
Traditions
Palms to the Sky, Palms to the Earth: The Turning Discipline of the Mevlevi Sema
A man in a tall, honey-coloured felt hat and a long white skirt stands in a line of others, shoulder to shoulder, his arms cros...
Mindfulness
What Did I Receive? Behind the Screen with Japan's Naikan
For a week, a person sits alone in the corner of a room, walled off from the rest of it by a folding screen. Meals are set down...
Breath
Holotropic Breathwork: The Practice Stanislav Grof Built to Replace LSD
Holotropic Breathwork rests on a simple premise: breathing faster and more deeply than usual, sustained for an extended period ...
Traditions
Rising, Falling: The Noting Method of Mahasi Sayadaw
A meditator sits with eyes closed, attention resting on the abdomen. As the belly rises with each in-breath, a single silent wo...
Traditions
David Lynch's Fifty Years of Diving Within
On the Sunday morning of 1 July 1973, at about eleven o’clock, David Lynch sat down for the first time to meditate. He was twen...
Traditions
The Teacher Who Told Everyone to Stop Following Teachers: Jiddu Krishnamurti
The encounter that decided Jiddu Krishnamurti’s life was, by his own account, unremarkable. In 1909, on the beach at Adyar on t...
Traditions
Talking to God in Your Own Words: Rebbe Nachman's Hitbodedut
The instruction, as it has been handed down, is unadorned: find a place where no one can hear, and talk. Not the fixed Hebrew w...
Traditions
Yoga Nidra: The Ancient Art of Conscious Sleep
A person lies flat on their back, arms loose at their sides, palms turned upward. Nothing about the posture is unusual — it is ...
Beginners
Autogenic Training: The Six Sentences Johannes Schultz Built a Method Around
A person sits in a chair without a backrest, spine unsupported, forearms resting on the thighs, head drooping slightly forward,...
Breath · Science
The Wim Hof Method: The Practice, the Claims, and What Independent Trials Found
Wim Hof, the Dutch athlete and speaker known publicly as the Iceman, was born on 20 April 1959. Guinness World Records, which k...
Techniques · Science · Traditions
Wave Hands Like Clouds: What the Tai Chi Fall-Prevention Trials Actually Found
Three times a week for six months, between 2001 and 2002, physically inactive adults aged 70 and over — recruited through a Por...
