In this week's Overheard in Yoga Class, Marc Holzman reminds us that we can experience incredible well-being by simply plugging our natural rhythms with that of the great rhythm of the world. …
The Language of Yoga
Yogis believe that 'energy' - also known as prana - is the universal life force that makes all our bodies systems work, our mental and emotional systems produce activity, and fully sustains our actual 'aliveness.'…
Letting go of the refrains in your head that are not serving you well, and are in fact, just leading to more anxiety and worry, is a pretty good reason to experiment with mantras. If you're going to have…
We practice the strength in the body so we can do our dharma in the world. …
In other words, net-neti describes the fact that humans' perceptions are fundamentally limited by our five senses and by our cognitive capacity. …
Your gaze is also your vision in a larger sense: It pertains not just to what we see on the mat, but also what we see in the world as we move through it. …
The two entities are bound together, both in the folklore and in practice - thinking about how they relate to one another can be helpful, as we try to "undo" old patterns of behavior and lay down new ones,…
Practicing mindfulness can help us be more present in a huge number of ways, from actually tasting our food to being able to attend our own internal processes to letting go of those "bad" thoughts when we can't seem…
Meditation has been shown to work not only through the millennia that humans have been practicing it, but how it works has also been observed through the brain imaging studies over just the last few years. …