Part 4: Completion of the loving-kindness sadhana, Day 30 to Day 40

This was the easiest sadhana (daily spiritual practice) I’ve done. Simply sitting cross-legged and repeating four lines (in English no less!) over and over.
May I be filled with loving-kindness
May I be well
My I be peaceful and at ease
May I be happy
I finished yesterday, with a twenty minute meditation. Yet this morning, getting stuck into work, [...]

Part 1: How to connect to other people while holding your centre – a new loving-kindness sadhana

Perhaps my biggest discovery this year has been the power of sadhana. I started my new years with a Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya. It took me a bit longer than forty days to finish it, as I missed a day at day 35 and had to start all over again… but boy [...]

How to approach challenging yoga poses with patience and self-kindness

Though we all know, as good yogis should, that the purpose of our practice is to create a greater sense of inner peace and self-actualization, it’s sometimes difficult to not push ourselves past our physical limits.
by guest author Seka Ojdrovic
It’s often said that we are our own worst critic.  Part of being human [...]