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SITALI PRANAYAMA
Pranayama simply means “breath control”, and refers to breathing exercises that use breath, our prana, or life-force, to affect our mental, physical and emotional state.
Sitali pranayama is a cooling breath. Here’s how to do it:
Sit in a comfortable meditative posture with the spine [...]
There is no end to self-knowledge.
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So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative [...]
Thanks Bizarro!!!
Yoga has an important role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases that include the recurrence of heart attacks, hypertension and coronary heart diseases. Yoga influences the hypothalamus directly, the area of the brain that controls endocrine activity, and helps prevent heart attacks.
Links to the study articles:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137950,00.html
http://www.medindia.net/yoga-lifestyle/yoga-heart.htm
Today, with the fast pace of life, repeated [...]
Self-knowledge
I like this quote from J. Krishnamurti as it represens a core theme of his teachings - go inside for the truth! We often spend our days looking for leaders, gurus, teachers, books…outside help and the truth is only within ourselves.
That is why it is important, as I said, to understand the process, the ways [...]
PERCEPTION
. . Something To Think About. . .
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin pl ayed six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to [...]
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30mn Intensive Session
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Yoga OFF the Mat:
An Introduction to Ayurvedic Diet & Lifestyle
November 14th, 2009 @ Yoga Jones, Ventura, CA
Take yoga into your everyday life by understanding the basic foundations of yoga’s sister science, Ayurveda. Ay-Yur-Ved-WHAT?!, you might ask? Ayurveda is a 5,000 year old system of health and healing from India that is tailored to the unique [...]
Thanks to my friend, Gordon Heady, for linking me up to this new perspective:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/fashion/09fitness.html?hp
I have mixed feelings about this – its funny and I love dogs, however its just another example of how far away from the truth of yoga we seem to have gone in this thrill-seeking, trend-driven (yet innovative!) country. Then again, its [...]
CHECK IT OUT SPORTS FANS!
LeBron James is committed to yoga – Ball Don’t Lie – NBA – Yahoo! Sports
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/LeBron-James-is-committed-to-yoga?urn=nba,150181