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History with Yoga Journal

History with Yoga Journal

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...
Adapt

Adapt

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...
Reciprocity & WYSIWYG

Reciprocity & WYSIWYG

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...
Embrace Life

Embrace Life

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...
The Luxury of Assumption

The Luxury of Assumption

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...
Tabloidism

Tabloidism

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...
Telefund Inc

Telefund Inc

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...
The Natural State of Being

The Natural State of Being

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...
Terrorism in Orlando at Pulse Nightclub

Terrorism in Orlando at Pulse Nightclub

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...
Refugees In America

Refugees In America

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...
Alone on Valentine’s Day 

Alone on Valentine’s Day 

  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...
Choosing to Surrender

Choosing to Surrender

  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...
Navigating Self Identity C

Navigating Self Identity C

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....
Navigating Self Identity B 

Navigating Self Identity B 

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...
Self Identity 

Self Identity 

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...
SUPPORT HRO 2016-002 

SUPPORT HRO 2016-002 

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...
Poached Animals

Poached Animals

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...
The Last Hermit | Brian Castellani

The Last Hermit | Brian Castellani

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...
Faigy Mayer, When Shame Kills

Faigy Mayer, When Shame Kills

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...
Because

Because

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...
The Most Dangerous Woman in America

The Most Dangerous Woman in America

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...