The Wisdom of the Body, Proprioception
Have you ever tried standing on one leg with your eyes closed? Will you be able to hold Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana (Hand to Big Toe Pose) or even Vyksasana (Tree Pose) with your eyes closed? Let us try something even simpler. Extend your arms to sides and point the...
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Yoga and Spirituality
Traditionally yoga was a purely spiritual practice. Today people do yoga for many different reasons. The question is: is it a bad thing to do yoga for reasons other than Spirituality? Let’s take a look at some common reasons why people begin doing yoga. ...
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The Ego. What is so negative about it?
The yogic wisdom advices us to liberate from the boundaries of the ego. But what are those boundaries? And, if they are so bad and unnecessary why do we have them? The ego represents the way we define ourselves. It represents the “I”. I am this, I did this, I have...
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Pratyahara: Internalization of senses
Yoga is so much more than the physical mat practice that is relatable these days. The very word Yoga comes from the Vedic Sanskrit word to unite or to add or to join. Yoga gives us tools through which we can access a bigness within ourselves and unit mind, body and...
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How do you choose a Yoga Teacher Training Course
There are hundreds of different yoga teacher training programs to choose from.. Which is the right for you? The decisions involved in choosing the right school for your yoga teacher training is quite a hard one and there are many questions you may want to ask...
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The seat of our personal power, Manipura chakra
The word chakra is not unfamiliar in todays moderns world. We have so many lovely chakra meditation sessions, chakra healing sessions, chakra crystals, chakra balancing therapies. The word and its view points are discussed at several yoga studios corridors. So lets...
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The Three Dosha of Ayurveda
Ayurveda is an ancient study, more specifically a science of life. Ayu means life and Veda means knowledge. The aim of Ayurveda is to prevent illness, heal the sick and preserve life; to protect health and prolong life; and to eliminate diseases and dysfunction of the...
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Daily practice for Breath Work
Pranayama is one of the most important parts of a yoga practice. It is the fourth limb in the Eight limbed system of yoga by Patanjali. Prana itself is also known as the life force in our body. In Chinese medicine it is known as the Qi. The free flow of the prana is...
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The Chakras in simple terms
Chakra can be translated as energy centers in our body. There are seven major chakras in our body, each of them is an expressing energy. The kind of energy depends on the focus of each chakra, and it can be expressed physically, emotionally, energetically. Each chakra...
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Tips on Handling Suffering, from the Yoga Sutra
The Yoga Sutra is a collection of aphorisms and it was written by the great sage, Patanjali. These aphorisms are regarded as one of the most important texts on yoga. They cover the eight limbs of yoga, as well as wisdom on living a yogic life. The first sentence of...
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