Yoga philosophy – Page 2

December 30, 2024
Letting Go: A Yogic Practice for the End of the Year

As the year draws to a close, we are presented with a unique opportunity to pause and reflect. In yoga, the practice of letting go—known as vairagya in Sanskrit—is essential ...

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December 9, 2024
Understanding Dharma: A Yogi’s Guide

As yogis, we often hear the word dharma mentioned in class. Have you ever wondered what it genuinely means to live according to your dharma, both on and off the ...

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Category: Practice
January 29, 2024
Embracing Nonattachment: Elevating Your Yoga Practice and Empowering Your Life

You’re on the mat, arms outstretched, heart open, eyes closed. You feel a wave of frustration as the pose that you’ve struggled to get still seems out of reach. Emotions ...

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April 10, 2023
Going Beyond the Asanas: The Eight Limbs of Yoga Explained

Yoga is much more than just physical exercise. The physical postures, or asanas, are just one aspect of a much larger philosophical system known as the eight limbs of yoga. ...

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November 19, 2019
What is Bhakti Yoga?

With regards to a formal definition of bhakti, there were, naturally, a variety of overlapping definitions of bhakti in circulation in textual sources of ancient India, highlighting its various ingredients ...

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Category: Practice
May 7, 2019
Create a Soul Inspired Intention

The first thing that we need to know is, that desire to fulfill our desires is part of the soul’s nature. In Sanskrit the word for intention, or resolve, is ...

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April 15, 2019
Maintaining Peace, Equanimity, and Authenticity

I want to talk with you about what it means to maintain peace, equanimity, and authenticity in your walk in the world. As a yogi, it’s traditionally understood that you ...

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Category: Wellness
November 27, 2018
Eight Simple Words

This quote sticks in my head like one of those earworms that creeps into your head off the radio and keeps popping up to annoy you and everyone around you ...

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May 8, 2018
Trauma, the Gunas and the Polyvagal Theory

Trauma field luminaries such as Peter Levine, PhD and Bessel van der Kolk, MD, among others, concur that trauma is in the body, not in the event – or in ...

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March 20, 2018
Suffering, Transformation, & The New Reality

Needless to say, there is suffering. Part of suffering is unavoidable. Small sufferings can wreak havoc momentarily as we attend educational programs, training, relocate, have a child or suffer the ...

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