“The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Mindfulness provides a good excuse to unplug and chill out—or “disconnect to connect” - The Economist

 

“Mindfulness should no longer be considered a nice-to-have... It’s a must-have." - Harvard Business Review

 

“Western science is starting to provide some concrete clues as to how yoga works to improve health, heal aches and pains, and keep sickness at bay." - Yoga Journal

 

“Smartphones are ruining our posture. And bad posture doesn’t just mean a stiff neck. It can hurt us in insidious psychological ways”- New York Times

 

“If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us” - Pema Chodron, How to Meditate

 

“Working with the mind and body to encourage the development of what’s wholesome - and the uprooting of what’s not - is central to every path of psychological and spiritual development…… Paradoxically, it takes time to become what we already are" - Rick Hanson, Buddha’s Brain

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“Meditation is important as a tool for transforming the mind….. We can use it as a means of strengthening our basic good human qualities” - Dalai Lamai, foreword in Genuine Happiness by B. Alan Wallace. 

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"Yoga helps improve mental health, including psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety, attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and schizophrenia" 

- Medical News Today January 29, 2013, Time Magazine January 28, 2013, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 25 January 2013, Scientific American, March 1 2014