Dear members

Not much news from us today - just two articles (very unrelated) that we
thought might interest you:

1. Yoga and sex

Jennifer Langheld, 30, a co-producer of a new video series called "Better
Sex Through Yoga," says when she started doing yoga two years ago, she
noticed she was stronger in her pelvis: "I was way more in touch down there.
My breaths would go deeper, and it made an amazing difference in the quality
of my orgasms."

The basic principle behind the video series is that yoga improves sex by
strengthening the "sexual core" muscles in and around the genitals,
increasing sensation, duration, and comfort. Though the series doesn't use
yoga terminology, in classes the area is accessed through mula bandha, or
" root lock," when yogis isolate and lift the PC muscle-the one between the
pubic bone and the tailbone. It's like Kegel exercises with proper
breathing. Eventually, yogis learn to isolate the perineum, a key area of
sexual pleasure for both men and women.

Diane, 30, a performance artist, has been doing yoga for four years and is a
devotee largely because of the change it brought to her sex life. "I feel
like it's this secret thing that people who don't do yoga don't know about,"
she says. "Yoga is all about becoming more in touch with your body, but on
some level, all that really means is becoming more in touch with your sexual
organs. Basically, you're doing sexercises. It takes about six months to
understand what they're talking about when they say 'Lift the pelvic floor,'
but once I did, it made my sex life 100 percent better."
~ Edited from New York magazine, by Amy Sohn

So that's why we do yoga, and now on a not so light note:

2. Is the end nigh?

Earth seems to be in the throes of mass extinction, and human beings are the
likely cause.

London: Fears the earth is undergoing a mass species wipe-out similar to
that which destroyed the Dinosaurs 65 million years ago gained ground
yesterday with the publication of two new British studies.

They found that the rate of loss of insect and plant species across Britain
was running at several times what would be considered normal, and had been
doing so for a long time.

"The world is experiencing a new mass extinction," said Andrew Sudgen of
Science International magazine. "These studies are milestones in global
change research."

Planet earth has already undergone five mass extinctions in the last 600
million years, and scientists have speculated for some time that it is in
the throes of a sixth.

And while all previous mass extinctions had been due to extra-terrestrial
events, the culprit for the current wipe-out was closer to home.

"As far as we can tell this one is caused by one animal organism - man."
Thomas said
~ Edited from Cape Times, 19 March 2004

Food for thought indeed - first must come awareness and education regarding
the extent of the problem, followed by change in behaviour and thinking on a
global societal scale - then only will the situation alter positively. It's
no use saying it's too late - action must be immediate!

Regards,
The Moksha team

"If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and
simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new
thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing. Do this magnificently and the rest
of the world will follow you."
~ ND Walsch

' "As in Yoga, so in the emotional life." The movement between forms is as
important as the asanas themselves. If you are fixating on what an asana
should look like, you are not really doing the asana. Awareness is more
important than the external form, and the awareness may pass through several
states: anger, frustration, or bliss. Yoga is accepting all the states
without holding on or without pushing away." '
~ From Yoga Journal