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Trust in The Flow: How Reflection Can be a Tool for Yoga, Singing & Life in General

October 15, 2019 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Sarah Spence ‘Mindfulness’ is a buzz word these days. I ponder whether ‘reflection’ will join it, given that leadership teams in corporate organisations are now given journals to write in. Regardless, let’s celebrate that these kind of tools are making it to the mainstream. The quality of self-observation is key to both yoga, mindfulness and to managing the mind. I discovered reflection as a yogic tool when I showed up at a yoga ashram in Western Canada. I’d been attending Power … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga

How Yoga Taught Me to Live a Fearless & Authentic Life

October 29, 2018 by Guest Author

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by Stephanie Spence, Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Yoga Wisdom: Warrior Tales Inspiring You On And Off Your Mat The setting: a luxurious villa on the Caribbean island of St. Barts. A wife and husband, along with several of his clients, are partying on a terrace overlooking the glittering ocean and sun-kissed beach. They flew in from Pittsburgh aboard his private jet that morning. The woman seems to have it all—she’s a self-made success story, wife, and mother. But beneath her mask … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga

Why The 3 Bandhas Are Not Optional in Yoga

August 23, 2018 by Guest Author

The respiratory diaphragm

by Daniel Fow All of the muscles in the body need to be exercised, stretched and worked with. Most of us know this, and we do yoga, go to the gym, walk, hike, run, or do some sort of work with our skeletal muscles. But these muscles are all generally on the outside surface of the body, either on top of our skeleton or immediately beneath. What we often tend to forget about is the importance of muscles that exist on the inside of the body. The pelvic diaphragm and the respiratory diaphragm are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: bandhas, diaphragm, pelvic diaphragm, respiratory diaphragm, yoga

Are Plant Medicines Part of Traditional Yoga?

July 26, 2018 by Guest Author

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by Daniel Fow, Cardinal Points: Healing Arts "The Mystic States (Siddhis) are attained by yogic practices from previous lifetimes, or by special plants, mantric repetition, asceticism, or by meditation." - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali The ancient Rishis and Yogis often spoke of an ancient plant medicine known as Soma which would be made into a tea. Upon drinking it, the third eye would awaken and mystical states would occur, even the state of samadhi or enlightenment. The use of Soma as a plant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up Tagged With: cannabis, Plant Medicine, psilocybin, Psychedelics, yoga

Why Yogis Need The Deep Lessons of Karma Yoga

April 27, 2017 by Guest Author 3 Comments

by Ram Davies, Sivananda Yoga Centre I was lying in bed in an apartment in South Beach, Florida, reading Meditations and Mantras by Swami Vishnudevananda, when it dawned on me: I don’t enjoy where I am and what I’m doing. Straight away I put the book down and emailed a yoga teacher that I had trained with the previous year. I asked him if I could stay at the ashram for a four month period as part of the karma yoga program. I heard back from him the following day, quit my job, and booked a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, How Yoga Helped Me, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: ashram, karma yoga, Ram Davies, Sivananda Yoga Centre, yoga

How Yoga Kirtan Helped Me Find My True Voice and Share it With The World

March 23, 2015 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By Premratna, Premratna Music If I try to imagine what the course of my life would have taken without yoga, I get an image of the movie Life of Pi: a small boat, huge swells, a tiger on board and a lot of fear. Yoga found me while I was doing my ‘big O.E.’; that phase of life where we are typically searching for adventure. I was no exception. In between hiking, skiing, singing and songwriting, I went to a yoga class at the gym in the Canadian Rockies where I was living and working. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Kirtan, Practices Tagged With: authenticity, Daily Practice, healing, How Yoga Helped Me, kirtan, letting go, yoga music

The Yoga Body Myth & My Late-30s Body

September 29, 2014 by Guest Author 7 Comments

By Roseanne Harvey, It's All Yoga Baby Recently I was having brunch with my granny and she said; “You’ve gained weight. With all the yoga that you do, you should be skinny!” There’s nothing like being fat-shamed by your grandmother. But she was echoing a common misperception about the “yoga body,” something that has been presented by the dominant culture, a way of understanding the effects that yoga has upon a woman’s body. Reflections On A Changing Body Of course, my 84-year-old granny didn’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: Acceptance, aging, body image, changing bodies, conscious aging, hatha yoga, mindful aging, self-love, seven-minute workout, yoga, yoga body, yoga butt

But First The Giant Must Dissolve in a Puddle of Tears on the Yoga Mat. Again

July 7, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It's post-Bali yoga teacher training with the crew from Power Living and I am totally spaced out. I don't know whether I'm coming or going. One minute I was in conversation with Duncan & the PLAY crew poolside at Potatohead in Seminyak, then I was in a taxi and off to the airport, flying for eight hours overnight, arriving the next day in Auckland, driving 2.5 hours to Tauranga to pick up Samuel, sleeping some more, and driving four hours to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: duncan peak, Emotional breakthrough, Keenan Crisp, Power Living Retreat, tears, transformation

How Compassion Makes Yoga Relevant

February 25, 2014 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by John Guthrie Sitting quietly, the dawn chorus yet to begin, I think of that one word, compassion. The image of a hermit in a cave somewhere comes to mind, and I reflect on this as the embodiment of compassion. Away from the world, yet radiating out the peace that arises from compassion, which has been birthed in the depth of their silence. A place that could just as well have its roots in suffering. There are those whose compassion has arisen from personal suffering. In the last … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, Yoga & Community Tagged With: compassion, Gandhi, Off the mat, satya

My Worst Yoga Class Ever

November 19, 2013 by Guest Author 8 Comments

Zahir Gilani

By guest author Zahir Gilani I have been doing Hot Yoga for six years. I have been nomadic in my practice and have tried many different studios and instructors. Some classes have been great, and some instructors have been amazing. I have left classes feeling tranquil, and have even carried on the rest of my day in an ineffable euphoric state. But even if I do not achieve an inner peace while there, at the very least I’ll know I have got a good workout in and had a chance to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Going to Class, Teaching Insights Tagged With: bad yoga teacher, worst yoga class, yoga teacher

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