Reducing Anxiety Amidst a Pandemic
Here we are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and anxiety is through the roof! When we’re anxious, our breathing pattern changes. That’s why it’s good to take a break regularly and stretch your upper body. You don’t even need to get up from your chair.
Five Insights for New Yoga Teachers
For those of you who are newly certified Yoga instructors and pondering 'what’s next', read today's article about Tara Echenroeder and her five insights for new yoga teachers. Tara is an experienced ERYT500, RCYT, YACEP certified Yoga instructor, life coach,...
Release Into Restorative Yoga
Sometimes injury, stress, or the day's wear can leave us exhausted and unwilling to step onto the mat. In these times, the healing qualities of Restorative Yoga may be the perfect method for your practice. In Restorative Yoga, the body is placed in supported asanas...
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Perfection in Action is Yoga
Where is the action if you sit quietly and close your eyes and meditate? Get into the field. And make sure that the mind is totally focused, one-pointed, not shaken.
Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 40
Learn to enjoy what you are doing and stick to the meditation schedule. That will be enough.”
The Man of Steady Wisdom
We are all looking for happiness; but, unfortunately, we’re not looking where the Gita tells us to. We look outside ourselves for it.
Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 38
If we start to feel anxious about gain or loss, victory or defeat, etc., we know that the ego is not ready to let go, trust life, or let us leave the outcome to a higher will.
Know Your Roots
Self-realization means to know that you are essentially that Spirit or Consciousness or God. Even though the truth is that we are all essentially God, most of us don’t really experience that.
Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2 Verse 16
When it is said: “The world is unreal,” it is not suggested that we are seeing the world where nothing exists.
You Are Great
As you think so you become. Think that you are great, and you are great. Think that you are hopeless, and certainly you will be hopeless.
Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 14
This running after things we want and away from things we don’t want is in itself stressful and agitating for the mind.
Pratyahara
By the proper practice of pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) the senses become fully under your control. They become obedient horses, taking you wherever you want. You become a complete master over them.
Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 28
We are afraid of death; not because of the unknown,but rather some part of our psyche remembers the experience, shortly after leaving the body, of having to review the life we just lived.
Sound Teachings
The best way to clean your system is to use sound. Simply choose any holy name you like, and keep repeating it.
Giving the Gift of Our Attention: Active Listening & Presence
What is needed most is for the person to be allowed to express their fears and feelings and to have those fears and feelings received by another—simply received.