The Platform: The George Greenstein Institute rings in the New Year with a free teleseminar: Yoga and the Brain!
The Twitter: 2008 proved movement and meditation are great for improving the embodied brain!

The Big Idea: Take your yoga, martial art, meditation, wellness or neuroleadership practice to a new level by learning about the key prime [...]

A quick Spacesuit Yoga Twitter!: Transcendental Meditation shown to reduce symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children
A small, though important study was just published in the peer-review journal Current Issues in Education > Volume 10, 2008 > Number 2, showing the positive correlation between T.M. practice, stress reduction and improvement in [...]

The Platform: The New Brain Ecology: Connect Body, Brain and Mind!
The Twitter: SpaceSuit Yoga.com is migrating to another blogisphere!
The Big Idea: Create a trustworthy go-to space where cogent commentary and top quality coaching take brain, body and mind fitness to the next level!

The new year is already upon us and with that, SpaceSuitYoga [...]

For all of the somanaunts, neuronauts, neuroleaders and seekers of yogic meditation, an auspicious holiday message shared by the unsung poet laureate of the yoga community: YogaDawg, author of My Third Eye Itches:

It happened in a Saturday morning yoga class. Exhausted from preparations for the holidays, the yogi was looking forward to a yoga [...]

To all somanauts and neuronauts!
The Twitter for the hour:  2008  The Year of the Brain… Wow! What a Year!
We are now reaching the end of 2008 and the Year of the Brain has ushered in some stunning discoveries!
In recent days, the news over the web has taken on great evolutionary proportions:  Brains from the Iron [...]

I’ll be speaking on best practices in “neuroleadership” this evening at MindShare.la. — the last brain-bash for 2008!
http://www.mindshare.la/
I’ll be joining an esteemed list of thought leaders, diva futurists and merry pranksters! All talks will be recorded and placed on the mindshare.la website as well as on my soon to launch GGI website! Speaking [...]

Welcome back to the discussion on visual meditation and mandalas!
Within major wisdom traditions of meditation, be they spiritual, religious or scientific brain and health training programs, there is typically the path of education or entrainment. Meditation or mental practice, after all, is not the default mode of a mature human central nervous [...]

Talk about about visual meditation!
Check out Pink Tentacles’s synoposis of ground breaking work in the neuroscience of visual perception: Visual Image Reconstruction based on Brain Activity!!!!!
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/
The original article can be found in NEURON Volume 60, Issue 5, Pages 731-940 (10 December 2008)
Title: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity using a Combination of Multiscale [...]

Will soon be adding a blog on complex mandala meditation but in the meantime, you can always find short “tweets” from me, DRG at Twitter.com
And to get you started thinking about or meditating upon a inspiring and complex visual mandala, here’s close-up of one of Phillip George’s boards. (House and Gardens….. Surf’s UP!)

Greetings readers, a follow up on questions concerning choosing a visual meditation practice:
First a few words about the practice itself:
With respect to stress reduction and the desire to create a sense of inner well being, visual meditations may be ideal for
a) Those who find deep appreciation and calm in viewing visual art; and
b) [...]