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.'…
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the language of yoga
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…
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …