New Age flute music plays softly as people file into an apartment in West Los Angeles, remove their shoes and seat themselves quietly on Oriental carpets on the floor. A picture of a bearded guru in ...

Take a deep breath in. It’s a command we all hear at times of stress. Somehow we know that, when harnessed correctly, breathing has amazing curative, calming powers. Yet how we each do it varies ...

Breathing is a basic, but complex human function. Breathe in. The muscles attached to your rib cage contract, expanding the chest cavity as your diaphragm contracts. This in turn expands a membrane ...

There's nothing we humans take more for granted than breathing. It seems to happen so naturally, that taking in and expelling of air, that few of us think twice about it. But there are probably few ...

“The Surrogate,” a drama based on the (sex) life of poet, journalist and polio victim Mark O’Brien, is already deemed one of Sundance’s breakout hits, with Fox Searchlight reportedly paying $6 million ...

For months, New Yorkers heard pitches from top contenders vying to become the next mayor of the five boroughs before they have to decide how they're going to vote. With less than 48 hours until ...

Kim Kardashian West made waves when she stepped on the Met Gala red carpet on Monday wearing a custom Thierry Mugler dress with a waist-cinching corset underneath. On Friday she revealed in an ...

There’s a place between two houses at the end of my street where I can climb a steep path up the side of Mount Sentinel. It’s not the gentlest transition, even at the best of times. Moving from flat ...

Who hasn’t been annoyed by the advice—usually offered when a shot of tequila or a Xanax would be more welcome—to just take a deep breath? But it turns out there might be something to that ...

Early one week in January, I commented to my wife that little Ari — then only eight weeks old — was faring well during the cold and flu season. On the very next Saturday, he got a stuffed-up nose. The ...