Foundations Yoga

01/03/2023

Coming September 2023

01/03/2023

05/19/2018

ChakraReBoot.com

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04/05/2018

03/25/2018

What to consider.

03/24/2018

03/23/2018

Indu Arora - one of my favorite teachers at Minneapolis Yoga Conference

03/22/2018

Andy Richter photographed around the world to present a diverse look at an ancient practice.

03/04/2018

The title is misleading because big pharma would certainly not voluntarily be educating anyone about other options than their own, but it looks like the FDA might be stepping up and finally doing something right here. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/879979

The FDA wants opioid Rx education funded by Big Pharma to point clinicians toward nondrug methods of managing pain. "Nobody has overdosed from too much mindfulness," says one expert.

03/02/2018

Pause of/and awareness

Query: What is missing in the practice or understanding of yoga today according to you?

Response: Pause and contemplative stillness is missing.

Yoga is often a Work-Out (nothing wrong with workout, it is just not the purpose of asana) versus yoga has always been a Work-In.

1) In everyday life, movement and fast pace is appreciated but in Yoga slowing down is revered

2) In everyday life, multitasking is considered some kind of talent and in yoga single pointed awareness and the practice of being completely present with one thing at a time is considered mark of progress

3) A lot of teachers are coming up with their own styles, starting their own lineage.Traditionally there were only paths (Bhakti, Jnana, Raja, Hatha, Laya, Kriya) and lineages were born as a result of realization of Yoga/Samadhi

3) In everyday life, we encourage moving forward no matter what, in yoga we do not hesitate going back to the roots, exploring the depth of our own subconscious

4) Today, there is less emphasis, acknowledgment, reverence, importance given to the pause between two practices. One simply moves from one thing to another without any awareness of what the previous practice stirred or stilled within. Have you stilled the Prana or stirred the apana? Yoga is/was and shall be a pilgrimage, self-inquiry, experimentation in the laboratory of minds

5) If you have stilled the prana shakti how to further multiply it and if you have stirred the apana how to guide it down and out or in and up. These are conscious choices to be made

6) This pause is precious as it makes the practice filled with awareness. Those are moments you gather the pearls of Sadhna

7) Since there is no emphasis on kriya sandhi (the meeting/ transition place of two practices), one does not even know what to look for or to be aware of

8. Today, Yoga Nidra also becomes a slumber party, originally Yoga Nidra is the sleep of awakening

There is nothing Yogic about a movement or stillness if it is without awareness, pause, reflection and transformation. The goal of Yoga is Yoga. Pause leads to poise.

02/26/2018

No, we're not talking about squatting. We're talking about a way to bend over that has nearly disappeared in our culture. And it could be one reason why back pain is so common in the U.S.

02/25/2018

Come out for a donation based class that will support a local charity, will assist the student teachers and will make yourself feel great !!

02/25/2018

The Tree of Contemplative Practices

02/20/2018

What if you simply devoted the rest of this year to loving yourself more?

01/25/2018

May there be well-being and happiness in all
May there be peace and tranquility in all
May there be completeness and happiness in all
May there be success and prosperity in all

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