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Deb & Roger’s YB Travel Adventures to India 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010 As you can probably tell by now, travel has always been an important part of my life. But it was impossible to do more than take a Holiday when building a career, and raising my daughter. But all that changed in 1992 when [...]
Moon Days Moon Days are the days each month on which you “take rest” from your regular Yoga practice. With traditional Astanga Yoga, no practice is done on full, or new moon days. Or, on Saturdays. Both full and new moon days are observed as yoga holidays in the Astanga Yoga tradition. The reasoning behind this is [...]
The Worlds leading master of Astanga Yoga Known affectionately by his students as Guruji, Jois began his studies in 1927. In 1946 he founded the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India, to practice the curative value of Yoga as described by the ancient texts. Ashtanga focuses on the union between body, mind and spirit. It [...]
A very special thanks to Giruji (Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Mysore, India) for his thoughts on “Spirituality, Yoga, Hinduism.” Yoga is from the Sanskrit word ‘Yug’ meaning union {with the Divine}. These are the different types of Yoga. Before we examine the differences we should remember that all of them lead to the same goal which [...]
Our Yoga Training in Mysore 2002 I’ve been drawn to Buddhism, and Eastern philosophy since I was in my early twenties, so it is only natural that places like India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bali, etc., seem to occupy a space in my soul. After our two month intensive Yoga Teacher Training in Bali fall 2001, [...]
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