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Blissful Beats: Live DJ’d classes take yogis to a whole new level of...
By Jaclyn Bauer You arrive at the studio, set down your mat, and wait for the class to begin. Suddenly, the space is filled with the rhythmic beating of spinning music, and you are transported to an...
View ArticleUncomfortably Numb: The danger of escaping into soft addictions
By Rebecca Niziol It’s human nature: We feel pain and naturally move away from it. We place our hand on a hot stove and the brain rapidly cues us to pull back. Our hearts are broken and we...
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Fearless Food Gardening in Chicagoland: Harvest and Maintenance
By Teresa Gale In this final stretch of the growing season, your plants will put one last push into fruiting. For crops that are still maturing, like peppers, eggplants, melons, winter squash, and...
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Breaking Through Barriers: The Karma Queens explore how we can change our...
Reviewed by Stephanie Poulos Karma in human nature is ever-present and fascinating. While many people tend to observe the principle of “what goes around comes around,” the universal law of karma goes...
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An Illumined Life: Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, M.D.
Each morning when I wake, I send up a thank you, and a request: Use me. Let the universe use me to do something meaningful or useful to someone each day. Find what that thing is that makes you feel...
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Illumined living, or “Kicking Ass” at life
Illumined living is the slow and steady journey of hills and valleys making your way to the peak. It’s the embers that glow in the dark night and emanate nurturing heat that comes from hours of...
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Waking Up is NOT too hard to do
We’ve gathered some resources on both the literal waking up – ways to start your morning, as well as the figurative waking up to the deeper choices for a more full and powerful life. Waking up isn’t...
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How to let your light shine? Be kind.
While no one I know sets out to “Be Mean,” sometimes we need a little nudge to go beyond the comfort of our lives and to be a little kinder (to ourselves and others) in this fierce and wonderful...
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Living an illumined life: Tips for SIMPLY Being Amazing
Living an illumined life means you aren’t recreating every day with every decision, rather you’ve found what works best and you create variations on that theme. In other words, you spend most of your...
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Best of Fall 2015
ILLUMINE 2015 issue is officially out: All gone. So good and so long. Fare-well and bye-bye! We have had the most successful run yet. If you missed your copy, you can find the Fall 2015 Digital. You...
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Stoking the creative fires
Stoking the creative fires Living an illumined life is creating and creatively expressing who we are through our work, our hobbies, our relationships, our living. When we are lit up from the inside,...
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Your Best Year Make 2016 the year you love yourself by Mark Anthony Lord It’s that time of year again, when many fervently struggle with keeping new resolutions and big goals. We create lists of things...
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Studio Feature: Yoga Loft
A Refuge from the Hustle and Bustle River North’s Yoga Loft offers mindful wellness community for all levels by Katie Wilkes In early 2012, Yoga Loft founders Jill Jerome and Tim Ceurvorst saw an...
View ArticleVedic Astrology
The Moon-Mind Exchange Exploring the link between Vedic astrology, ayurveda and mental health by Pamela McDonough One of the more fascinating elements about the ancient astrological science of Jyotish,...
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Yoga & Ayurveda:Two Arms, One Body by Monica Yearwood Yoga and ayurveda are regarded as the right and left arms of the same body. They are sister sciences, part of the same family, with roots...
View ArticleArchitecture
Vaastu Has a Corner on Positive Energy Designing Your Home According to the Elements by Ruth Diab Lederer According to Vaastu Shastra, the ancient Hindu system of architecture, every part of your home...
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ASANA The Cultivation of Grace and Ease by Jim Kulackoski The word “yoga” may conjure up images of Indian gurus in far-off places or crowded classrooms of devout students in fashionable but comfortable...
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Fresh on the Fly
Fresh on the Fly Eco-friendly products that take you from sweaty to ready in a flash by Ashlee Piper Few pleasures are as delicious as greeting the day with a restorative workout followed by the ever...
View ArticleDefining your Authentic Personal Style
by Fredda “Ellen” was in her mid-40s and was strikingly beautiful, with sunstreaked wavy blonde hair and a curvy physique. In one of my Image + Style classes, she explained that she had overflowing...
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