Competition yogini Kim Tang, a mother of three and co-owner of Palm Desert’s Bikram Yoga University Village, defies stereotypes that all its practitioners are 20-something former gymnasts.

We are driven by habits of mind, compelled by social forces and bewitched by other-worldly conundrums that are often out-of-step with the better of our instincts.

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We must be willing to reveal to ourselves, let alone to another, what we’ve chosen to forget and to remove the masks of character we employ.

Many of the instincts and sentiments to which we were born and bred are not a resonant and forward-looking match for us as individuals or for us collectively in the cosmopolitan and connected world we live in today.

Mom deserves a little pampering on her special day; here are a few of the valley’s best treatments and the spas that offer them.

Sentimental Journey is ostensibly about the heart wanting what it wants when it wants it. And it’s about the yearning, second-guessing reminiscences that at some point down the road may accompany the choices we make.

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Love is fulfilling. Yet what it inspires in us is not an antecedent truth born of nature and culture but the creative excitement of who we may become. It is a splendor. A receptivity. An attending to. A bond. A promise.

Fifty years ago “It’s a dog life” meant a miserably unhappy existence. Certainly not today, certainly not in America.