by Brian Castellani | Jul 12, 2019 | Chronicles, Yoga
MY History with Yoga Journal Jan 30, 2015 Brian Castellani’s view of yoga, his history with Yoga Journal Magazine and how he started Yoganomics®. As an indirect by-product of working at Yoga Journal magazine, I came up with the term Yoganomics® – with the...
by Brian Castellani | Dec 9, 2018 | Chronicles
Hostages, Indecision, Guilt, Shame, Regret & the Courage to Adapt The Chronicles of Brian Castellani There will always be misanthropic types of people who take pleasure in dragging you down. There are people who, despite their better judgment, will specifically...
by Brian Castellani | Feb 14, 2018 | Chronicles
Reciprocity & WYSIWYG My world and my life are about Reciprocity & WYSIWYG. I don’t subscribe to a Kumbaya reality. If you argue your justifications, sure enough – they are your specific and unique justifications and you OWN them. Awareness happens...
by Brian Castellani | Oct 27, 2017 | Chronicles
Embrace Life. Our time is constrained by bi-monthly, quarterly, annual, responsibilities that anchor us to this material world. As people, we require “order” to make time for ourselves, or else we might suffer along with all the other nameless and faceless...
by Brian Castellani | Oct 20, 2017 | Chronicles
The Luxury of Assumption We no longer have the luxury of assuming ignorance or blame our own ignorance. We live in a time where we can blame others for our own ignorance because “concepts” are too big to understand… Facebook and Twitter’s own algorithms...
by Brian Castellani | Aug 22, 2017 | Chronicles
In the end, I don’t answer to you. I don’t answer to your boss, or to my boss. I can do anything I want, so long as I am willing to accept the consequences of my actions. Tabloidism What if they don’t like it? What if they think you’re...
by Brian Castellani | Aug 18, 2017 | Chronicles
Telefund claims to stand up for progressive ideals, however, as a business they mindlessly call people, without getting connected, wasting time, resources and money. Dear Telefund: Denver, Telefund, Telefund, Telefund Inc.(http://www.telefund.com) On the Telefund...
by Brian Castellani | Jul 18, 2017 | Chronicles
Is Foreign Assistance Important? How Many Africans Need to Die before the American People Notice? Many people never leave the country, and some have only experienced poverty in the United States. They only see the children’s distended bellies (from...
by Brian Castellani | Apr 6, 2017 | Chronicles
The Natural State of Being Art, beauty, reason, logic, compassion, and discernment, are all within each of us. They aren’t products that you buy in a store or abstract things people access through a weekly visit to particular “place.” They are...
by Brian Castellani | Jun 14, 2016 | Chronicles
Terrorism in Orlando at Pulse Nightclub How many of us have been personally affected by “Anti-Gay” Speech? How many of us have known someone who has been beaten up simply because they were “perceived” as being LGBTQ? How many of us have been...
by Brian Castellani | Apr 7, 2016 | Chronicles
Your family has barely eaten and everyone looks gaunt and frail. You worry your mother isn’t going to make it to wherever you may end up. Refugees In America Some life-changing event occurs in the state of Washington and suddenly you and your family lose...
by Brian Castellani | Feb 15, 2016 | Chronicles
Alone on Valentine’s Day Happy Valentine’s Day to all the single parents and children who struggle growing up feeling like there is something intrinsically flawed within themselves. You are not alone, even if you are alone. We are living in a time...
by Brian Castellani | Feb 10, 2016 | Chronicles
I am not special. The situation is not negative or positive. I just made a decision to give it a name. This has not changed from yesterday, last week or even last year. I’ve been here since my death and second chance at life, December 4th, 1993. I can...
by Brian Castellani | Feb 7, 2016 | Chronicles, Yoga
Confronted with the truth of ourselves, we see all of our successes and failures, and we ask ourselves if we truly the person that we think we are. At the time I think I was 42, and I was experiencing the most intense feelings of failure I have ever felt in my life....
by Brian Castellani | Feb 7, 2016 | Chronicles, Yoga
We are forced to accept certain situations in life whether we want to or not. Usually they are situations that are beyond our control. Sometimes they stem from our own inability to see the truth of a particular situation, but there isn’t always blame to be...
by Brian Castellani | Feb 6, 2016 | Chronicles
Your Self Identity is only comprised of the choices you make in your own life. Uneven, broken and imperfect. Maybe I was wrong. I must have made a wrong decision somewhere. Maybe I just never took the time to see it. Some people struggle with their issues their...
by Brian Castellani | Jan 27, 2016 | Chronicles
They didn’t ask “hey, are you straight or gay?” before they decided to commit a hate crime. SUPPORT HRO 2016-002 It’s easy to forget that a minority has been fighting for EVERYONE’S right to feel safe in our city. I was in San...
by Brian Castellani | Jan 15, 2016 | Chronicles
Roy Bay | Self Idetified Pedophile Evangelical | Against the HRO This will be a strange post. This might have errors in it but I wrote it as soon as I got home last night. Totally messed up evening. I am grateful for having friends rooted in love tolerance and know...
by Brian Castellani | Dec 30, 2015 | Chronicles
The extent of illegal wildlife activity ranks among the top five largest transnational crimes in the world today. It threatens species, community and global security. Narwhal – often referred to as ‘Unicorn’ Whales, have been...
by Brian Castellani | Nov 14, 2015 | Chronicles
The Last Hermit | Brian Castellani Tim O’brien paints a captivating painting about the importance solitude, experiencing your own path and understanding your own relationship to nature. Being a hermit is something that every person goes through. It...
by Brian Castellani | Jul 24, 2015 | Chronicles
This is the suicide note of the Ex-Hasidic woman, Faigy Mayer, who committed suicide Sunday, July 19th, 2015. This situation embodies everything that is wrong with our world. It is not a particular religion, it the ideology – the guilt and the shame. It is not...
by Brian Castellani | Jul 6, 2015 | Chronicles
Because I am Brian Castellani. There’s not a compartmentalized version of myself that you meet when you meet me. You meet the real me. I have been dead before. I have a head injury. I re-taught myself how to walk and talk. I looked in the mirror and spent...
by Brian Castellani | Mar 26, 2015 | Chronicles
Some hope the move will help reduce the tribe’s skyrocketing rates of diabetes and heart disease. Navajo Nation Will Be The First To Tax Junk Food Next month, after three years of legislative tug-of-war, the Navajo Nation will become the first place in...
by Brian Castellani | Mar 26, 2015 | Chronicles
An Indian campaigner who brought water to 1,000 villages using ancient methods wins a prize known as the “Nobel Prize for water”. An award known as “the Nobel Prize for water” has been given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water...
by Brian Castellani | Mar 17, 2015 | Chronicles
Kshama Sawant, the socialist on the Seattle City Council, is up for re-election, and the Establishment is determined to defeat her and the ideas she champions before they spread. — 2015/03/15 Source: www.truthdig.com “We cannot have illusions,” Sawant said. “We...
