Yoga. Famously practiced by Madonna, Gwyneth, and Sting. Less-famously practiced by 16 million others. And now... even by our military. Though we envision the typical yoga-going American as a Lululemon-clad, earthy female, a fresh crop of American yogis are being cultivated from this fatigue-clad, stereotypically-rigid repository....

Birds of a feather... peas in a pod... one rotten apple. As children, we were given many examples -- be they avian, vegetable or fruit -- of how the company we keep might influence us. Emerging research has found that these childhood lessons weren't mere scare tactics employed by our...

Twenty-five hundred years ago, a disenchanted prince and seeker of truth sat quietly under a bodhi tree. After much stillness, The Buddha emerged. And the rest is history...

Mention the word meditation, and this quintessential image is conjured up. With the sheer velocity and lightening speed with which we...