Healing the Whole Person: Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness for Cancer A cancer diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. Nowadays, 50% of people with a cancer diagnosis will survive for ten years or more and the survival rate has more than doubled in the last 40 years. Increasingly, the approach taken by those in the …
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What is ‘Hot Yoga’ really? Hot Yoga first came to Spain 14 years ago, when Bikram Yoga opened their first studio in Madrid. Nowadays it seems that there are Hot Yoga Studios opening up in every major city of Spain from A Coruña to Marbella. But what is ‘Hot Yoga’ really? Hot Yoga is a general term for Yoga …
Are you on the right path of life? Sometimes we sit back and everything is great, perfect in our lives. We are so happy we are bursting with joy. Nothing can go wrong and everything we imagine and dream up comes true. Other times things are very hard, we think how could it get worse …
Women Empowerment and Yoga When we first start yoga we are constantly looking at the other people in the room and thinking “wow I wish I could do that, like the girl in the first row”. We judge ourselves compared to the other students, wishing that our body was capable of doing things that people that have been practicing yoga for …
Giving and Receiving When it comes closer to the holiday season, we often get stressed out in finding the perfect gift for our loved ones. As gift givers we really want the receiver to enjoy and love the gift. We put pressure on ourselves to give the best possible gift to each loved one in …
The pandemic of Yoga being free As a society, do we value things that are free? Think about that for a second. Are we more likely to sign up for something because it is free? Or if something says by donation, a small amount of money or high price tag, do you value that more? …
Benefits of Prenatal Yoga Pregnancy is a gift that many women choose to partake in. When women find out they are pregnant they are happy, joyful and also fearful of the pregnancy process and birth. Often women fear the unknown and through yoga they are able to connect with their bodies and their newborn baby, find …
The Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God The Bhagavad Gita means The Song of God and it forms part of the epic Mahabharata. It is a sacred text of the Hindus with the essence of Vedic knowledge, and as such it is one of the most important books in Hindu international literature and philosophy. Even though The Bhagavad …
The message of The Gita The influence of the Bhagavad Gita The Bhagavad Gita presents questions such as: How can someone live a life spiritually meaningful without withdrawing from society? What can someone who does not want to give up family and social obligations do to live the right way? About dharma: Dharma means “what is right”. …
Patanjalis Eight-Limbed Path of Yoga: Yamas The Eight Limbs are included in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the classical text on yoga which, while not exhaustive, is accepted as the central guide by all schools of yoga. He defines yoga as “stilling the thought waves of the mind”, a journey from mental distraction, scattered thinking and conceptualising …