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Bikram’s Last Seminar – Words of Wisdom from a Yoga Guru By Anita Thompson PHILADELPHIA — As the economy was tanking, it was good to get away from New York, spending Saturday with Bikram Choudhury, founder of Bikram’s Yoga College of India. I was not expecting a quiet “ommmm” incense filled seminar. No. Being familiar [...]
Ashtanga Yoga founder Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (1915—2009) dedicated his life to yoga. A longtime students remember the love and wisdom he offered. Big Yogi, Little Yogi In 1972 fellow yogi Norman Allen and I saw Manju Jois demonstrate the first series in Pondicherry. It blew my mind! Like a detective searching India for the [...]
At the moment Yoga is enjoying a lot of attention from the mainstream Western Media. Though it’s anyone’s guess as to whether some of the more hybrid, or eclectic styles will weather the test of time, we do know that “Yoga” will. Personally, the more I do Yoga, the more I want Yoga. It is [...]
Time, and again we hear about misconduct, including the worst criminal behavior of well-known spiritual leaders. These leaders include yogis, priests, monks and popes. If you find the inclusion of the popes shocking, you will be in for a much greater shock if you read the historic records of Pope Gregory IX, Pope Innocent IV, [...]
Ramakrishna was born in 1836 in Bengal. His parents were poor but very pious, his father having been dispossessed of all he owned because he had refused to bear false witness for a great landowner. Ramakrishna is said to have been a very beautiful child, whose first spiritual experience came at the age of six. [...]
It is not known when Sai Baba was born, where he came from, or who his parents were. The term Sai Baba means simply, Saintly Father. He appeared in Shirdi, which is a little village in India, at about the age of sixteen, and stayed there till the end of his physical life in 1918. [...]
Dr Carver was not born great in the sense of family or opportunity. His mother was a colored slave on a Missouri plantation. While still a tiny baby, slave raiders rode down on the farm and carried off the mother and child. Moses Carver, the owner of the plantation, rode in pursuit all the way [...]
Ramana was born on December 29th, 1879, at Tiruchuzhi in South India. His father was an uncertified pleader, which is a sort of rural lawyer, and as a child, Ramana showed no sign of his later experiences. At school he was athletic; football, wrestling and swimming being his main enjoyments. He had an amazing memory, [...]
Regarded as the Grandfather of Modern Yoga Among the many yogis who are credited with bringing yoga to the west, the influence of Professor T. Krishnamacharya is probably the most profound. He is today recognized as one of the main contributors to the modern teachings of yoga. Born in Mysore, India in 1888 in a [...]
Founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers, Swami Vishnu-devananda, was a world authority on Hatha, and Raja Yoga. Swamiji was also known as the “Flying Swami” for the different peace missions he accomplished around the world. Before Discovering Yoga Swamiji was born in Kerala, South India, in 1927. As a young child one of [...]
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