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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 to Maximize Your Potential as a Yoga Teacher

May 30, 2016 by Guest Author 2 Comments

by Neal Ghoshal When I started teaching Yoga thirteen years ago I thought I'd be showing anybody who turned up to class a few Yoga postures and hopefully they'd enjoy themselves. Yet Yoga seems to have its own plans and it's own drive. Teaching Yoga has lead me on unexpected journeys and to unforeseen places. And it appears to be the same with many who come to Yoga - at first, we do not realise the power and the beauty of the practice to transform our lives. A few years down the line we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: donna farhi, inquiry, karma yoga, Neal Ghoshal, service, teaching yoga

Off the mat and into the kitchen

September 4, 2012 by Valerie Love 1 Comment

by Valerie Love One of the most rewarding things about practicing yoga is not the physical benefits of the postures on the body, but the way in which the practice of yoga helps to build awareness of oneself and how we interact in the world. The practice of karma yoga, the yoga of service, is just as important as a physical asana practice. As Alan Finger writes in his book, Chakra Yoga: "The success of your yoga practice is not measured by how well you can do the poses or how long you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Ayurveda Tagged With: food, karma yoga, marianne elliott, Off the mat into the world, training, valerie love

How to make your office practice your yoga practice

April 30, 2012 by Guest Author 3 Comments

by Gabrielle Harris Are you too busy at work to become liberated? Would aliens snatch you up out of your office desk for analysis because of that mindless look on your face? Do you want to incorporate more yoga into your daily work life? Here are a few simple tips to turn your office day into a yoga day. One of the definitions of yoga is to become disconnected from the connection to suffering. Going to work can potentially be a breeding ground for suffering. This is where we play out our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Reviews Tagged With: bhakti, hatha yoga, jnana, karma yoga, mantra yoga, office yoga, yoga at work

A yogic exploration of winning the Big Wednesday jackpot

June 12, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant 6 Comments

The single most destructive desire present in the human race is the desire "to make money". In the name of "making money", we make slaves of other people, we rape and pillage the earth, we abuse animals, we create inferior products designed to break down and crowd our landfills, we compromise our internal values, we trample over colleagues, we burn ourselves out, we spend more time working than with our family, and we write it all off as "just business". All this because of our burning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Archive 2019, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: karma yoga, money

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