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Posted in Chronic stress, Kripalu yoga, Mantras, Om, asana, be happy, body awareness, energy, gratitude, great and good things for you, healthy living, meditation techniques, yoga, tagged Blissful Body Yoga, blogs, CafePress.com, Design, Graphic designer, Health, Meditation, shopping, t-shirts, yoga, yoga blogs on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Free Kundalini Yoga Class with Gurmukh from Golden Bridge Yoga
Posted in Kundalini yoga, asana, meditation techniques, yoga, tagged Fitness, golden bridge, gurmukh, Hatha yoga, kundalini, Kundalini yoga, New York City, Religion and Spirituality, Teachers and Centers, yoga on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Enjoy this Kundalini Yoga class with the incredible teacher Gurmukh from Golden Bridge Yoga.
Her book The Eight Human Talents
is one of the most beautiful and useful books on yoga I have ever read.
She also does amazing prenatal yoga classes, and DVDs. I have taken her
classes at Golden Bridge in New York City, and [...]
Research Finds Yoga and Meditation May Reverse Stress-Damaged Genes
Posted in Chronic stress, Health, Kripalu yoga, asana, depression, happiness, healthy living, meditation techniques, parasympathetic, yoga, tagged amy weintraub, depression, Harvard Medical School, Health, Herbert Benson, Massachusetts General Hospital, Medical school, Mental Health, Relaxation Response, Stress, Transcendental Meditation, yoga on October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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I recently recieved this bit of research in an e-letter from Amy Weintruab. Amy is a fellow Kripalu Yoga Teacher and leading expert in the use of yoga and meditation in healing depression. Her book, Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga,is an absolute must have for any [...]
Yoga master, 90 next month, says discipline makes him feel one-fifth his age
Posted in Health, asana, body awareness, healthy living, meditation techniques, wellness, yoga, yoga and longevity, yoga for senior, yoga postures, tagged asana, devotion, elderly, Gujarat, Hatha yoga, Indian cuisine, Meditation, pranayama, Religion and Spirituality, yoga for seniors on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a beautiful and inspirational story about yoga and the positive impact in can make on our lives. This guy is my hero! I’m telling you, if we all did one hour of pranayama each day we would live in radiant health forever.
I was also excited to see that this gentleman did some of [...]
Meditation-In-Motion: a Kripalu Yoga Experience
Posted in Kripalu yoga, asana, awakening, dance, energy, meditation techniques, meditation-in-motion, movement awareness, prana, yoga, tagged asana, dance, Hatha yoga, kundalini, Kundalini yoga, Meditation, movement, Practices, Religion and Spirituality, stress reduction, wellness, yoga on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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In this post I am going to set the stage for you to experience Meditation-In-Motion, which is a unique aspect of the Kripalu Yoga tradition. This type of “prana awakening” will open doors to new body wisdom for you. First a little background, and explanation.
Kripalu Yoga comes from the lineage of [...]
Child’s Pose: It’s Child’s Play…
Posted in Kripalu yoga, asana, body awareness, child's pose, garbhasana, healthy living, meditation techniques, parasympathetic, yoga, tagged Autonomic nervous system, Blood pressure, Chronic stress, Fight-or-flight response, Health, Parasympathetic nervous system, Stress, Sympathetic nervous system on August 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
A reader request…this one’s for you K…
OK, no really, it’s called Child’s Pose (or, Garbhasana in Sanskrit). But, some of my awesome students back in Houston sort of inadvertently renamed it “Child’s Play,” and the name has stuck.
It’s an apt renaming because this is a really, really easy pose, and the great thing is [...]
Mountain Pose: Standing on Your Own Two Feet
Posted in Kripalu yoga, Mountain Pose, Tadasana, asana, body awareness, posture, yoga postures, tagged asana, Foot, Heel, High-heeled footwear, Human position, Mountain Pose, Stand, Standing position, Tadasana on August 21, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Standing on your own two feet sounds like one of the simplest of tasks, but it is something I find challenging my students again, and again. Making contact with the ground in a firm and balanced way doesn’t always happen automatically for a number of reasons.
Firstly, we all have our own habitual ways of standing, [...]
Monday Mantra – August 19, 2008
Posted in Kripalu yoga, Mantras, Om, asana, body awareness, chanting, healthy living, meditation techniques, yoga, tagged Hindu, Hinduism, India, Lord Shiva, Mantra, om namah shivya, Shiva, transformational on August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Another Monday Mantra…on Tuesday. Do you think the Universe is trying to tell me something? Honestly, I tried to carve out a bit of time yesterday for this post, but it just didn’t happen. Mondays are always just so busy. But, I love it, because the Universe does have a sense of [...]
Smoothing Out the Waves: Meditation Methods
Posted in Kripalu yoga, Mantras, Om, Still the mind with simple meditation techniques, asana, healthy living, meditation techniques, yoga, tagged asana, Brain, Breathing, Health, Meditation, Raja Yoga, Sensation, Sense, sivasana, walking, walking meditation, yoga on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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What to do with a wavy, wavy mind…
So, in my last post I talked about the wavy, fluctuating nature of mind and how it can create a lot of confusion, feelings of separation, and general suffering of all sorts. So, what can we do about all that? [...]
Do You Have The Citta Vrttis?
Posted in Kripalu yoga, Mantras, Om, Stilling our wavey minds, asana, body awareness, chanting, healthy living, meditation techniques, yoga, tagged asana, Hatha yoga, Meditation, meditation techniques, Patañjali, Raja Yoga, Tada drastuh svarupe vastanam, yoga, Yoga Citta Vrtti Narodhaha, Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, Yoga Sutras on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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When I lived in Houston my morning walk took me down a long boardwalk overlooking an inland waterway connected to the Gulf. One morning as I passed by, the water was woven into an undecipherable pattern of tiny, fluctuating waves. I stopped on the edge of the boardwalk and sat down. I [...]
