IY Teacher Feature: Rev. Manjula Spears
The Integral Yoga Teacher Feature is an exciting new blog series featuring monthly stories from graduates of Integral Yoga teacher trainings. This month's installment features Rev. Manjula Spears, an Integral Yoga Minister, Certified Yoga Therapist and E-RYT 500 who first began her path with Integral Yoga after being irresistibly drawn to a photograph she saw of Sri Swami Satchidananda... Discovering Yoga Ever since Manjula was young, she had an interest in spiritual sadhus, and Shamans. At sixteen, she began practicing transcendental meditation and developed an interest in the study and discipline of Yoga. She taught herself from books as Yoga instructors were extremely uncommon. In her early thirties, she took her first course from a self-taught instructor. Following two years of this beginning class, Manjula's hunger to deepen her practice grew, and her instructor recommended she check out a Yoga journal, a rarity in those days. Paging through the journal, Manjula found an...
Embodying the Dharma: Yoga Practice for Buddhist Teachings
Yoga and Buddhism have much in common; although they are two distinct paths, there are many places of convergence. In the past 50 years many Yoga practitioners in the West have also become followers of Buddhist teachings and practices. Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy,...
When Your Mind Won’t Let You Meditate
As a meditation teacher, people frequently tell me they want to meditate, but their mind won’t let them. When they sit to meditate and try to quiet their mind, they claim the mental chatter only gets worse. The truth is, they are correct. We can’t force our minds to...
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