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 […]
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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?
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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
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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
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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”.
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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
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Your Mind on a Silent Retreat – Vipassana People sign up for a silent retreat for many different reasons often because they are going through some sort of crisis and are trying to find answers within themselves. Other people just go for the silence, to meditate and become more focused on their minds or perhaps even to just push themselves
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Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra Yoga was not invented by Patanjali. What Patanjali did was lay the foundation of Yoga, analyze the function of the mind and list many ways to restore an agitated mind. The definition of Yoga by Patanjali is: Yogas-citta-vrtti-nirodhah – Sutra 1.2. “Yoga is the ability to direct the mind exclusively towards an object and
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98 days after being a certified yoga instructor 28 Days. It sounds like nothing, right? In the grand scheme of things when we discuss our lifespan, twenty-eight days truly is almost nothing. It is just a small fraction of the huge phenomenon that is our life. And yet, in twenty-eight days your whole world can change
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Diary of Hot Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training: Week 4 of 4 November 23rd, 2015 8 yogis + 4 weeks + 32 classes + 45 hours of yoga + 4 injuries + countless hours of studying = one hell of an experience and 8 very well deserved Yoga Alliance Teacher Certifications. Just like that, the 28-Day Intensive
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