If you're working on a home practice, one fantastic, free, online resource is Anmol Mehta's blog, Devoted to the Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment and Kundalini Yoga. His depth of knowledge on these subjects and his generousity in offering free online detailed courses with feedback have turned me on to a regular meditation and pranayama practice. Under his online guidance, I feel confident in knowing that I am doing it right. … [Read more...]
How yoga will give you a body you LOVE
October 9, 2008 By 4 Comments
Common wisdom holds that if you are unhappy about your body, the only recourse is to lose weight via exercise, or dieting, or pills, or some combination of all three. But there is another way. It doesn't involve starving yourself, forcing yourself into activity you hate, or risking your health with dodgy chemicals. Instead of focusing on changing the external - i.e. your body - focus on changing the internal, i.e. your PERCEPTION of your body. Stop the hating and the moaning and the … [Read more...]
How to choose your own experience of reality
October 9, 2008 By 2 Comments
One of the most valuable lessons that yoga can teach us is to observe our reactions to the world. When we practice, we pay attention to our breath, we are aware of physical sensations in the body, we notice our emotions and we watch our thoughts leaping and dancing about in the mind. In the watching, we begin to see space between thought and action. We begin to understand that we can choose our action. This gift of yoga could lead to the single biggest leap in evolution we could next make as … [Read more...]
Ten Free On-Line Guided Meditations
October 8, 2008 By 5 Comments
Welcome to my list of guided meditations - I have done, and enjoyed each of these meditations. Regular meditation is a wonderful way to start to shift from a place where your mind is your master, to a place where you master your mind... And if you've never meditated before, it's useful to start with guided meditations because the voice and the music gives you something to focus on, making it easier to keep the mind still and focused. It's nice to let someone else lead you on a journey, and … [Read more...]
On the power of paying attention to your words
October 8, 2008 By 5 Comments
All around us lie opportunities for us to take our yoga off the mat - not just in a physical way, but in the way in which we relate to everything around us. When we practice, we listen to our breath, we let it guide us into postures, we accept ourselves right where we are, and we surrender into our body. When we live our lives, do we take the time to stop and listen to our breath? Do we allow our breath to take us into situations that we might find stressful? Do we accept ourselves as we … [Read more...]
Top Eleven reasons to start practicing yoga TODAY!
October 6, 2008 By 9 Comments
You have just ONE body to carry you through life from birth to death. This body is the only way that you can get around on our material world. It's the only way you can perceive ANYTHING. Because if you couldn't smell, taste, feel, see or hear... what would you be experiencing? (Pure consciousness, that's what. But that is another article.) So how do you treat this wonderful personal transportation device of yours? … [Read more...]
