CONCENTRATION FOR MEDITATION: DHARANA FOR DHYANA
What is meditation? For one who has never heard this word or never practiced it, it is not so simple to understand the real and deep meaning under it. It is all...
Category: Eight Limbs
THE TRANSMISSION OF YOGA: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GURU-SHISHYA
Yoga….many branches….many masters It is quite common for our western mind the wish to hold more than we are able to and to jump from style to style, from one practice to another without...
Diary of a New Yogini
From Frustration To Blissfulness: My Journey Continues. –Ma Kripa Anand Here I am, at the beginning of my spiritual path of traditional yoga at Paramanand Institute of Yoga Science, an authentic ashram...
Yoga: One Ocean,many small waves.
My yoga journey began in March 2005. I was depressed. I didn’t know what I was looking for. I followed the suggestion of my doctor to start a physical activity. If I close my...
Difficulties with Meditation
Why do we meditate? When I began practicing yoga, I did not have a meditation practice. The closest I came to meditation was laying in shavasana, and that’s it. Where I am from, it...
The fascinating journey into the world of Yoga
By- Samera Ma Sananda Zagala We danced in the rain, rolled in the mud, laughed and cried, roared like a lion, chanted to the moon and sun, played drums, awoke Kundalini, blew the...
LIVE YOUR LIFE LIKE A LOTUS
“The feet of the Guru are compared to the lotus flower which, although grows amidst the dirt, remains unaffected. Similarly, the Guru guides us on how to live in this world full of...
BEYOND ASANAS
I never would have considered myself, presently, to be an angry person. Of course, when I was younger I dealt with feelings of being jaded, rebellious, and I definitely lashed out at a family...
Detach and Find Happiness
Brian Jenks While spending a month at an Ashram in India this summer, our Guru (Dr. Omanand) kept saying the same things… “Detach from your expectations, detach from your ego, detach from the...
More than Asana
What is yoga? Yoga can mean many things to many different people. You may be thinking yoga is comprised of poses, some type of breath work, flexibility, balance etc. Well, you aren’t wrong, but...
