Author: ~Yogaville

How Yoga Enlightens

it originally evolved as part of an eight-limbed path to experience enlightenment, the realization of our true nature.

Bhagavad Gita: Translation and Commentary

Sri Krishna is clear about what our priority should be: before it is time to leave the body, we should realize that we are not the body. That is the core of our sadhana.

Steady Mind Through Sadhana

The best way to develop any muscle is to build it up by repeated use. Developing a steady mind and an inner ease - strong enough to last in the midst of activity—also takes practice.

Hatha Yoga as Spiritual Practice

The goal of Yoga is to experience this innate nature and to allow that aspect of our being to guide the way to everything. At peace with ourselves, innately we are in a loving relationship to what is outside of us. It is our nature to express love. When our action is an expression of love, there is joy in that.

Hatha Yoga as a Tool for Self-discovery

In Hatha practice, we attempt to move and think about our movements in ways outside of our patterned thinking and moving. We practice being and acting free of our conditioning by moving with complete, non-judgmental awareness and in loving response to the capacity of the body in this moment only.

Yoga for the Special Child

I also work with two-year-old twins who have cerebral palsy. The yoga therapy has improved their balance, strength and flexibility and, equally as important, it has given them the ability to develop stillness in their mind and body.

Stress & the Transplanted Swami

People are hungry for the deeper aspects of Yoga and the teachings. And it helps to be able to offer it in neutral language where sometimes you can’t even say the word “Yoga.”

Meditating with Children

But what about the children? They also need to learn how to find inner peace and security within their own hearts that is not dependent on people, places or situations.

Lila by Krishna Das

Being with Maharaj-ji was like being an actor in a play, an actor who’s forgotten that he’s in a play. But the play was written by a realized Being–a fully awake, conscious writer–who was also pretending to be merely another actor in the play. Everything that he wrote was designed to wake us up and lead us to the same realization, freedom, and love.

Delving into the Deep Rest of Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra is the ultimate power nap and deliberate “timeout.” Just 35 minutes of intentional Yoga Nidra practice is equivalent to the refreshing rejuvenation found in four hours of deep sleep.