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Exploring the Niyamas: How does Ishvara Pranidhana affect our lives?

June 18, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Do we dare, do we dare, do we dare surrender to God? Oh boy - the G-word in yoga. Scary stuff indeed. How on earth does God relate to yoga? Let's start by ditching the word God - although that's what Ishvara refers to, instead we can call it the Grand Ordering Design if we like. It's nothing more than the infinite intelligence throughout the Universe that  keeps everything in place - the sun rising, the moon waxing and waning, the tides rising and falling, seeds … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, The Foundations Tagged With: adhyshanti, awareness, divine, God, ishvara pranidhana, niyama, surrender

Nadine Fawell shares why Yoga is her chosen faith

December 22, 2011 by Guest Author 33 Comments

by guest author Nadine Fawell, a Melbourne-based yoga teacher, blogger, and author of the yogAttitude cards. She is most interested in yoga's power to heal body, mind, and spirit. I’ve just come back from leading a yoga retreat in Bali. I got on the airplane feeling anxious, for all sorts of reasons: I was about to shoot my first yoga DVD: strong*stretched*serene (which put me so far out of my comfort zone, I couldn’t even see the horizon), I didn’t know whether the hotel would take good care … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: anxiety, divine, ganesh, nadine fawell, sacred

Why forgiveness of self is part of the yogic path toward samadhi (bliss)

November 2, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

Years of yoga practice has peeled away layers and layers of behaviours and thought patterns. The veil of avidya (self-ignorance) is lifting, but not without pain and discomfort. It’s this pain and discomfort that sent me fleeing from class so many years ago. It’s this pain and discomfort that has made my practice sporadic and disjointed at times. Bikram in particular used to dig deep inside to this bottomless well of tears that would erupt during class and pour forth without pause until … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: avidya, divine, forgiveness, God, samadhi

How to find true love

October 5, 2008 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Rama and Sita, true love?

Somewhere out there in the world is the perfect person for you. Someone who will love you unconditionally, and meet all your needs, and shower you with love. Right? Absolutely. And you already know this person. In fact, you are extraordinarily close to this person. For this person is you. You are the one responsible for loving yourself unconditionally, for meeting all your needs and for showering yourself with love. And when you do this, you will discover something … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Archive 2019, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: divine, Relationship, The Heart

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