Inside yoga 164 (25/4/2016) These days meditation is generally accepted as being a practice which is good for us, because it helps us relax and it sharpens our awareness among other benefits. A study in California has now discovered that meditation reduces the age of our brain – it makes us younger! In fact, the study revealed that regular meditation […]
more >Inside Yoga 163 (28/3/2016) As the Christian world celebrates Easter this weekend, from Christ’s death to his resurrection it is worth considering what it means to be reborn? In both Buddhism and yoga there is lot of importance placed on how we live, how we die and how we are reborn. Most of us are aware of the belief in […]
more >Inside Yoga 162 (21/3/2016) Charlotte Walker has tried numerous things to control her bipolar disorder and recently found that yoga helped to balance her life. In an article on BBC website she describes how she started yoga again – having done some practice back in the 1990s – and although she found it hard physically she says that she feels […]
more >Inside Yoga 161 (14/3/2016) A yoga teacher in Calgary, Canada, teaches a class under the title “rage yoga”, which according to the teacher, Lyndsey Istace, started after she went through a difficult relationship breakup and felt so angry. The class looks like a yoga class you would expect to see until she encourages the students to do exercises like “screaming […]
more >Inside Yoga 160 (4/3/16) There are a lot of reasons why practicing yoga is a good idea, but now here’s one to add to the list – especially for the ecologically and ethically minded amongst us: practising yoga reduces our carbon footprint. India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change has produced a 21-page document about “Low Carbon Lifestyles”. […]
more >Inside Yoga 159 (22/2/2016) Instead of searching for the answers, like the meaning to life, the universe and everything else, or pursuing some ideal state of health or being, we are asked in yoga focus on getting rid of what we do not need in our life. First and foremost among the list of things to be rid of are […]
more >Inside Yoga 158 (15/2/2016) How good is your concentration? Can you pay attention? These are very important questions in yoga and its application is one of the most important factors in yoga. If there is no concentration our yoga practice will not be effective, it will not be yoga. One of the eight limbs of yoga is called dharana, which […]
more >Inside Yoga 157 (25/1/2016) Freeze that moment, yes… the moment that just passed – try again. Simply stop and look at this image of a water drop and the ripples. Don’t do anything for three breaths except look at the picture! Sometimes all we need is to pause just for a few seconds and in this brief moment in time […]
more >Inside Yoga 156 (18/1/2016) Last week the media was chattering about (and reporting) how the Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne had declared that he had ditched his smart phone to help him “live in the moment”. Redmayne is reported to have got rid of his smart phone early last year and replaced it with a basic analogue phone because “it was […]
more >Inside Yoga 155 (11/1/2016) David Bowie has died today after an 18-month battle against cancer. This was the news that greeted many of us this morning, and though this is not necessarily about yoga and Buddhism, there is nothing else I can think of today other than to acknowledge the passing of an artist, a legend and an icon. As […]
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