Yoga Shastra

14/07/2025

Head stand workshop

21/06/2025

28/05/2025

☘️☘️🧘‍♀️ Yoga nidra means sleep with a trace of awareness. It is a state of mind in between wakefulness and dream. When you practise yoga nidra you are opening the deeper phases of your mind. At this moment, your intellectual mind is operating, but when you are able to relax, the subconscious and unconscious levels of the mind open.

If you practise yoga nidra, then the nature of your mind can be changed, diseases can be cured, and your creative genius can be restored. The subconscious and the unconscious mind are the most powerful forces in the human being. This simple practice of yoga nidra has the capacity of penetrating into the depths of the human mind.

The subconscious mind is a very obedient disciple, and immediately carries out the orders that you put to it. If you know how to practise yoga nidra, you can train your subconscious mind completely. Then the ordinary mind and intellect will follow suit.☘️🧘‍♀️☘️

28/05/2025

🧘‍♀️☘️ Relaxation Technique☘️
In the standing position, you are sending messages to the different muscles to keep you from falling to the ground. It means fighting against gravity. Lying on the floor is the only time you are not fighting against gravity. You can become completely loose. The very gravity you are fighting can be used for the body to relax now. Check now to see where the tension is. First watch your feet to understand better if you're relaxing them or not, that's the test. Now lift your right foot three inches above the ground. Now hold it there. When you're holding it there, what do you feel now? You feel tension, is it not? You are aware of the tension. You experience the same awareness when you relax. You must be aware of your relaxation. Not just lying down. Okay, now drop the leg like a stone. When you drop it, gravity brings the leg down. Now lift your left foot up three inches above the ground, hold it. Be aware of the tension. Naturally the tension is building up, like water behind the dam, and as the tension builds up you want to relieve the tension. So with gravity, you drop it. Don't use the muscles to drop it. This is how your system knows that you can use gravity to relax and you are aware of relaxation. - From the book Swamiji Said

11/12/2024

Few beautiful pictures of the Day Yoga Retreat at Larsson Lada last Saturday. Thank you for all the participants hopefully we could make one more in the spring.

23/11/2024

🧘‍♀️🪔🍀Alternate nostril breathing involves inhaling through left nostril, holding the breath, and exhaling through the right in a 1:4:2 ratio, then repeating with the opposite nostril. This practice harmonizes the nervous system and balances brain hemispheres. The brain naturally alternates activity between hemispheres every two hours, reflected in the dominant nostril’s airflow. By supporting this natural rhythm, alternate nostril breathing promotes a healthy mind and body.🍀🧘‍♀️

03/10/2024

A clear understanding of the three Gunas and their operations is very necessary for a Karma Yogi. He who has knowledge of the three Gunas can do his work in a better and more efficient manner. Prakriti is composed of the three Gunas or forces, namely, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Sattva is harmony or light or wisdom or equilibrium or goodness. Rajas is passion or motion or activity. Tamas is inertia or inaction or darkness. In a perfect state these three Gunas exist in a state of equilibrium. During Srishti or projection a vibration arises and the three qualities are manifested in the physical universe. The three qualities bring bo***ge to the Jiva or the individual soul. Though Sattva is a desirable quality, yet it also binds a man. It is a golden fetter. Rajas is the source of attachment and thirst for life. It causes attachment to action. Tamas binds man to heedlessness (Pramada), laziness (Alasya) and sleep (Nidra). These three qualities are inseparable. No one is absolutely Rajasic or Sattvic or Tamasic. Sometimes Sattva prevails in man. He is calm and serene. He sits quietly and entertains sublime, soul-elevating thoughts. He studies religious scriptures. He talks on divine topics. When Sattva prevails, the other two qualities are overpowered for the time being. At other times Rajas prevails. He does action. He moves about. He plans, schemes, speculates. He craves for power, wealth and action. When Rajas prevails, Sattva and Tamas are overpowered for the time being. Sometimes Tamas prevails and the man becomes slothful. He feels lazy, indolent and lethargic. He is dull and feels sleepy. When Tamas prevails, Sattva and Rajas are overpowered for the time being. In some people Sattva is predominant; in others Rajas is predominant; and in some others Tamas is predominant. When the wisdom-light streams forth from all the gates of the body, then it may be known that Sattva is increasing. Greed, outgoing energy, undertaking of action, restlessness and desire-these are born of the increase of Rajas. Darkness, delusion, stagnation, heedlessness-these are born of the increase of inertia. The fruit of a Sattvic action is harmonious and spotless; the fruit of a Rajasic action is pain, and of a Tamasic action is ignorance. Those who are established in Sattva rise upwards. The Rajasic people occupy a middle place and the Tamasic people go downwards, shrouded in the vilest of qualities.
"Swami Sivananada"