Kickstart 2010: After 30 days, what next?

If you started with me on 15 January then you are coming to the end of your 30 days. If you started later, it doesn’t make any difference because the point, now that I can be totally honest with you, is not to practice yoga every day for 30 days. The point is to make space every day to practice yoga.

How you can have a taste of ashram life, right here in New Zealand

by guest author Amrita

Visualise…
…a daily life of hatha yoga, meditation, pranayama, chanting, deep philosophical discussions.
Imagine…
…absorbing the positive energy and inhaling fresh air in a quiet and idyllic environment surrounded by nature and then sharing delicious vegetarian meals and sleeping in simple dwellings.

Kickstart 2010: Are we having fun yet?

If you started your 30 days of yoga sadhana on January 15th then you’ve been practicing for 10 days now. You are one third of the way through your sadhana.
Are you having fun yet?
Maybe that seems like a strange question. Maybe you expect yoga to be serious?
It is. At least, it is profound. My experience [...]

Effects of the Sankalpa in Satyananda Yoga Nidra – Manifesting the positive

By Guest Author Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat

Many people on the yogic path are committed to self transformation.
This active focus on growth may ignite questioning of one’s own behaviour.  Sometimes, there is genuine desire to change a particular habit or pattern, but try as one may, the cause of the action can be elusive!
Whether [...]

Kickstart 2010: No pain, no gain?

No pain, no gain?
We’ve been trained to think this way – to believe that we have to suffer in order to achieve anything of real merit.
We’ve been taught to believe that things that come easily are not worth as much as those things that we struggle for.
We’ve been educated to believe that being busy is [...]

Kickstart 2010: Setting a sankalpa (intention)

Today is the first new moon of 2010 and I am celebrating – as I’ve already explained – by giving myself a little bit more of what I need. I’m beginning a new 30 day cycle of sadhana or committed yoga practice.
Some of you are coming along with me for the journey. Thank you so [...]

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