Pedram Shojai doesn't have a chair at his desk. The 40-year-old founder of a Lake Forest, Calif.-based multimedia wellness business mostly stands as he works. He takes five-minute breaks every 25 ...

The writing led Shojai to visit the Taoist Institute in North Hollywood, where he meditated with the master and took an oath as a Taoist monk, committing himself to a life of meditation and the study ...

Pedram Shojai doesn’t have a chair at his desk. The 40-year-old founder of a Lake Forest-based multimedia wellness business mostly stands as he works. He takes five-minute breaks every 25 minutes to ...

t’s easy to get caught up in life’s daily challenges: rush-hour traffic, flaky babysitters, visiting in-laws, stressful days at work, and so on. Many of us can lose sight of the bigger picture. But ...

December 21 marks World Meditation Day in the U.S. To find out how the centuries-old practice can help shape your wellbeing ...

Stanford neuroeconomist Brian Knutson is an expert in the pleasure center of the brain that works in tandem with our financial decisions - the biology behind why we bypass the kitchen coffeemaker to ...

SHAANXI, Northwest China — On a chilly winter morning, rays of sunlight warmed the wrinkled face of Ren Farong, the former president of the Chinese Taoist Association. His long white beard bobbed up ...

The smiling man with the shaved head and orange-yellow robes is here to help. Yin Guang Shi, a Buddhist monk, traveled 5,000 miles from Dalian, China, to spend at least one year in Longview, learning ...