It used to be common knowledge and widely believed by most neuroscientists, that we were born with all the neurons we were going to have, and that after a certain stage in a child’s development, the brain stopped changing. We thought that the neurons in our brain were limited and the neurological pathways were fixed, …
I am in my 50s. There, I said it. To be precise, 51 as I’m writing this. Soon 52… and so on, because if we are lucky, we grow old. But we seem to forget that, and especially in the west, we try to resist the passage of time instead of embrace it. We arm …
When we think of ‘backbending’ in yoga, images of gymnasts, or circus performers touching the back of their head with their feet, in an impossible contortion, comes to mind. Thanks so much Instagram! If we see someone in the famous wheel pose (Chakrasana or Urdhva Dhanurasana depending on what yoga tradition you follow), some people …
