Yoga. Meditation in Action. [On Being]

Yoga. Meditation in Action.

March 3, 2011

Yoga has infiltrated law schools and strip malls, churches and hospitals. This 5,000-year-old spiritual technology is converging with 21st-century medical science and with many religious and philosophical perspectives. Seane Corn is a renowned yoga teacher and the founder of "Off the Mat, Into the World." She takes us inside the practicalities and power of yoga — even as a source of social healing.

About the Image

While in India for a YouthAIDS trip with actress Ashley Judd, Seane Corn poses in the Eka Pada Koundiyanasana position in front of the Taj Mahal

(photo: courtesy of Seane Corn)

Program Details

Unheard Cuts

» Unedited Interview with Seane Corn
(mp3, 90:53)

Hear the Music

» Show Playlist ¦ listen to full-length tracks of each song played in the program

About the Image

While in India for a YouthAIDS trip with actress Ashley Judd, Seane Corn poses in the Eka Pada Koundiyanasana position in front of the Taj Mahal.

(photo: courtesy of Seane Corn)

SoundSeen (our multimedia stories)

» "Body Prayer"
[video, 3:01]
Watch Seane Corn demonstrate her graceful and athletic form of "body prayer."

» Vinyasa Flow Yoga
[video, 2:52]
Seane Corn discusses some of the fundamental principles of vinyasa flow yoga, much of which can be applied to all forms of yoga.

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Seane Corn

Seane Corn teaches yoga at the Exhale Center for Sacred Movement in Venice, California. She is the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS, and co-founder of "Off the Mat, Into the World."