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. …
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The Language of Yoga
Yoga nidra lets you get so deep into a meditative state, that your thinking mind - all the mind chatter, all your convictions, worries and self-criticisms - falls away, and what you're left with is just pure consciousness. …
Determining one's dharma means finding one's way, from the most minute (what do I have for dinner?) to the most profound (how can I make the world a better place?). …
Mudita is all about taking pleasure in the virtue or good fortune of another person. It's this experience of feeling happiness though another that it's all about. …
Pranayama really helps to shift our energy in significant ways so we can manage stress more in our lives. …
The one in whom you perceive the presence of the Self, who inspires you, who teaches the intricacies of the spiritual path, and who guides, supports, cajoles, challenges, and corrects, is the Guru. …
Whether it's your first or thousandth yoga class, and regardless of your proficiency, your interest level, or whether you even believe that yoga "works" for you, savasana is one pose that will get to you. …
In this week's Overheard in Yoga Class, Jodi Blumstein asks us to take a moment and really consider deeply why it is that we practice and at what level are we willing to take in the practice that we're…
To kick off a new series that will cover some of the more common terms we hear in our yoga practices, it seems fitting, if a little backwards, to begin with the term that most people hear at the…