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Yoga Sutra Study Group – Update

[Next meeting: Saturday, June 1, 2:00-4:00 PM]

One of the common reasons why people join a yoga class is to learn how to manage stress. Ever wondered what causes stress in the first place? Is it caused by people or events external to us, or is it something that happens in our own minds? Ever […]

21-day Yoga Challenge, April 29-May 19, 2013

I am pleased to announce the next 21-day Yoga Challenge program. The past programs have been very well received by all the participants. For most of them, it has been truly a life-transforming experience. I invite you to join me on this exciting and deeply rewarding 21-day yoga journey. Here are the particulars:

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Guided Meditation – a Simple Technique

Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or an infrequent practitioner of meditation, you know how difficult it is to keep the mind steady on the object of your meditation. That is simply because that is the very nature of the mind. The mind only knows how to run around with different thoughts, emotions, feelings, perceptions […]

What Distracts the Mind – the Five Vrittis

As we have seen before, yoga has been defined in yoga sutras by Patanjali as "yogash-chitta-vritti-nirodhah" or "yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind-field". Put another way, yoga is the ability to keep the mind calm and peaceful under all circumstances. In order to understand how to keep the mind calm, it […]

21-day Yoga Challenge, March 4-24, 2013

I am pleased to announce the next 21-day Yoga Challenge program. The past programs have been very well received by all the participants. For most of them, it has been truly a life-transforming experience. I invite you to join me on this exciting and deeply rewarding 21-day yoga journey. Here are the particulars:

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Kundalini, Chakras, Bandhas

The concepts of Kundalini and Chakras are derived from the ancient wisdom of the Tantras. We normally associated all yoga-related knowledge with Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. In the yoga sutras, Patanjali did not mention about the kundalini or the chakras because his main focus was to control the fluctuations of the mind through meditative […]

Eight Limbs of Yoga

For most people, the practice of yoga simply means the practice of asanas or physical postures and stretching. A typical "yoga" class at a gym or a health club usually lasts one hour and consists of a fairly vigorous practice of various asanas. The practitioners feel great because they develop more flexibility and […]

Pranayama/Meditation intensive, Feb 6-17, 2013

I am pleased to announce the next pranayama/meditation intensive.

Come and join me for this life-transforming experience where you will learn two of the most important aspects of a complete, integrated yoga practice – pranayama (breathing techniques) and meditation. In this program I will introduce you to many of the breathing techniques that […]

Why do we chant OM?

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What is Meditation?

In the 21-day yoga challenge class yesterday, I discussed the meaning of meditation as given to us by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. In sutra 3.2, he defines meditation as "tatra pratyayaikataanataa dhyaanam" – "Dhyana (meditation) is the continuous flow of cognition toward that object". In this audio clip, taken from the discussion […]