If you listen carefully, you’ll hear your body speaking the language of your emotions. All the aches, pains, stress, and fatigue—as well as the lightness, flexibility, and enthusiasm—are the ways your body is expressing them. There are immense preventive benefits in exploring this body-emotion connection and really listening to our bodies. One of the powerful …
“When you make service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.”—Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Karma yoga is the path of ‘action’—of putting in 100 percent effort without being attached to the outcome. Karma yoga can be applied to everything you do: from the most trivial, ordinary tasks …
Ayurveda classifies five tanmatras (subtle elements) used for sense perception—sight/form, taste, sound, touch, and smell. Of all the “doorways” from which energy escapes—eyes, mouth, ears, and nose—the eyes release up to 80% when they are open. You can also factor in that the eyes receive a major workout from all the impressions they ingest throughout …
One of the most overlooked body parts that yoga benefits is the organs of sight—our eyes. Just as yoga can be practiced specifically to address lower back pain and neck stiffness, it can also be practiced to address issues related to the eyes. Eye yoga improves the vision and helps to overcome various eye-related problems, …
Try this: Just sit and think for an hour. Really, do nothing else, but just sit and think and you will find that you are so tired. We do not realize how tiring and draining mental activity alone can be. When we get physically tired, we can sleep it off to let go of the …
The therapeutic value of yoga is far reaching, it goes well beyond the scope of the physical body. A basic understanding of the stages of life offers insight as to how a woman can practice self-care and connect to the ancient wisdom of yoga to live a balanced life. The Three Stages of Life Ayurveda …
A Yogic Perspective What are the qualities of a good leader? How can you be a dynamic, confident, and enthusiastic leader? A major aspect of good leadership is letting go of control. Are you in control when you’re sleeping or when you’re dreaming? No! Are you in control of any other function in your body? …
Ayurveda classifies six seasons (ritus)-spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, pre-winter, and winter. Here, in the West, we are predominantly concerned with four of those six seasons-spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Vasant is the Sanskrit word given for spring. Spring is a time of year when it tends to rain more and the winter snow melts. The …
Practicing yoga is much more than the postures. Learning to integrate the full “on and off the mat” practice including observing the five yamas and niyamas—yoga’s guide on social and personal ethics—in your daily life can transform you and your yoga practice. Our thoughts, actions, decisions, interactions with others, our daily routines, our surroundings, everything …
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Most of us know what stress feels like—and many of us feel as though we are in a constant state of stress. But every once in a while, we come across someone who seems unruffled despite all of life’s challenges. These people certainly feel stress, but they know how to deal with it and have …
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