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An Ancient Cure for Modern Life By Alison Rose Levy Everyday stress can lead to vata derangement, an excess of nervous energy. These Ayurvedic therapies can bring you back into balance. Like most Americans, I’m an expert at multi-tasking. I eat at my desk, wash dishes while on the phone, go through bills on the [...]
Breath and Stress Reduction by Sherry Roberts There is a saying in Yoga: When you can control your breath, you can control everything. People give you strange looks when you tell them you spent your Saturday afternoon breathing. But that’s what I did. There were about 10 of us at the workshop on breathing at [...]
General Notes for the Pranayama Practice There are innumerable rules and regulations pertaining to pranayama. The main points are to exercise moderation, balance and common sense, with regard to inner and outer thinking and living. However, for those who seriously wish to take up the advanced practices of pranayama, the guidance of a guru or [...]
Nadi Shodhana Pranayama Nadi is a tubular organ for the passage of prana, or energy carrying cosmic, vital, seminal, and other energies, as well as sensation, intelligence and consciousness in the causal, subtle, and physical bodies. Shodhana means purifying, or cleansing. The term nadi shodhana means the purification of the nerves. This pranayama is also [...]
Following an emergency visit to an intensive care unit, yoga teacher Barbara Benagh pledged to beat her asthma. After extensive research, she discovered the key to overcoming asthma is retraining the breath. By Barbara Benagh It’s the middle of the night. Suddenly you’re wide awake, suffocating, gasping for air but unable to catch your breath. [...]
Yoga is an ideal form of exercise. Yet unlike other forms, Yoga offers the full range of fitness benefits. It develops strength, stamina, flexibility, and vitality. The gentle stretching action involved in each yoga posture promotes a gradual, safe increase in the flexibility of the whole body. The thousands of yoga postures were created to [...]
Meditate to live your life to the fullest. Meditation is one of the most powerful tools there is to help us restore the harmony within, and to gain access to our bodies’ inner intelligence. In meditation we rediscover the silence in our mind, and make it part of our life. Silence is the birthplace of [...]
by Shakta Kaur Khalsa About the author: Shakta Kaur Khalsa has been teaching Kundalini yoga for twenty-five years, and has been a Montessori teacher for almost as long. She lives in Herndon, Virginia, with her husband and their son. She also is the author of Fly Like a Butterfly: Yoga for Children (Rudra Press) and a [...]
Hatha Yoga has a very precise set of tools for bringing us deeply in touch with our true nature through the body. They are the five practical techniques, which together constitute the method of Hatha Yoga. Each one of these techniques embodies, and expresses one of the energetic qualities of the five elements. In order for yoga [...]
Yoga has lasted thousands of years because it works. Of all the approaches to yoga, Hatha Yoga is the most well known in the West. This is because of its comparative accessibility. Hatha Yoga works through the body. It involves moving the body into different, and novel positions, and relationships. These changes in the use of the [...]
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