How to access infinite energy and prosperity using a sadhana

I’m so excited! Today I started a new sadhana. The results from the last sadhana I did, Sodarshan Chakra Kriya were fantastic, and I’d been waiting for another sadhana to make itself known. What’s a sadhana? Simply a daily spiritual practice like meditation done for forty consecutive days. On the weekend, while cleaning out my [...]

My nine favourite places to practice asana, pranayama and meditation

Part of my mission as a yoga teacher and writer is to show people that asana, pranayama and meditation can happen anywhere, anytime – not just in a yoga class, at a yoga studio, in a gym or on your mat at home. Breaking free of our ideas of how asana, pranayama and meditation “should” [...]

Why adding Pranayama to your yoga practice is so powerful

One of the most common reasons I hear for why people don’t do yoga is that they’re “not flexible enough”. Aside from the fact that this is exactly why they would get so much out of yoga, practicing yoga does not require you to be flexible! When I went to my first class (an Iyengar [...]

Why it’s important to breathe

I know, you’re breathing already, automatically, all the time – about 25,000 breaths day. But are you really breathing? Stop right now. Place both hands lightly on your belly. Exhale ALL the air out your lungs through your nose. Now inhale (through the nose) slow and strong right down into your belly, pushing your hands [...]

Committing to a Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya

As an avid reader of Steve Pavlina’s blog, Personal Development for Smart People, I have long admired his tenacity in determining a course of action and sticking to it. He is the champion of the thirty day trial – a process whereby he’ll try something out for thirty days to see how it impacts his [...]

How do I squeeze yoga and meditation into my jam-packed day?

It’s the end of the week and while you managed to make it to two yoga classes, you haven’t unrolled your yoga mat at home once. Family, work, & household commitments make finding a 90-minute slot during the day next to impossible. Short of getting up at 5am, or re-prioritizing your life to ditch other [...]

How to start a home yoga practice

The only way to connect with your internal guide, that yoga teacher that lives inside of you and can’t wait to get out, is to start a home yoga practice. And no matter what your level of yoga experience. No matter what you know or think you don’t know. Starting a home yoga practice is [...]