Yoga Chanting and Wisdom

05/03/2025

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UFM Community Learning Center is a creative educational program serving Kansas State University, the Manhattan area and the state of Kansas. Based on the philosophy that everyone can learn and everyone can teach, UFM provides opportunities for lifelong learning and personal development. UFM serves a...

02/19/2025

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01/10/2025

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07/30/2023

https://youtu.be/Khw0UCDF7Xg

Ana Franklin- Heart Space Yoga, Manhattan KS. www.yogaconnection.byregion.ne­tTrish Elting- Olathe KS. www.trishelting.com

07/30/2023

A few years ago I visited my friend Trish and we worked on The Gayatri together. Here's a video:

Ana Franklin- Heart Space Yoga, Manhattan KS. www.yogaconnection.byregion.ne­tTrish Elting- Olathe KS. www.trishelting.com

07/30/2023

Anyone can join me for yoga from the comfort of your home. Private lessons on Zoom or Google Meet are available with pre-paid appointment. In person private lessons available at your home in the KCMO area. I can be reached by email at yogaconnection@gmail.com. Age or experience is irrelevant - You Can Do This!

90-year-old Tony Smith took up yoga to stave off boredom during pandemic lockdown. What he found was much more than a way to pass the time.

08/25/2022

08/25/2022

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08/25/2022

06/24/2022

YOGA AND THE 21st CENTURY
– Interview with TKV Desikachar in 1999 to consider the role of Yoga for the coming century in the three fields of Health, Psychology and Spirituality.

1. THE RELEVANCE OF TRADITIONAL TEACHING

Question:
Do you think that the teaching you received from your father is still relevant today, particularly in the West?
Desikachar:
It looks like it because, wherever I speak, more and more people come, and from all sorts of different backgrounds. It is relevant, and it is going to be.

Question:
You studied the Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali many times with your father. Could you say a few words about this text, and since it is about 2,000 years old, do you think its message is still valid today and for the future?
Desikachar:
This text is very old, and it deals with the mind. Anything we do, or intend to do, involves this instrument, and all pains and pleasures are rooted here.

Patañjali was very prophetic, because he spoke not only of yesterday’s mind, but also of tomorrow’s. His message concerns clarity, and it will become more and more pertinent as time goes by, because people are now questioning much more than before.

Earlier there was belief, and so people did not have to question, or even to think. Now, we all want to have more responsibility in what happens to us. Therefore, we need to have a clearer mind, and this is why the Yoga Sūtra is still valid and will remain so.

I believe that, unless a new religious order comes to the world in which case belief will take over, this text will have a wider and wider impact in times to come.

2. YOGA AND HEALTH

To continue reading or download as a PDF
https://yogastudies.org/2022/06/yoga-and-the-21st-century-interview-with-tkv-desikachar/

04/21/2022

Never underestimate the power of nature and perseverance

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03/30/2022

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