YOGA BLOG

Can Yoga Help Me Lose Weight? Whether yoga can help with weight loss is a commonly asked question. It’s a great thing that people consider yoga as a possible tool for shedding some of those [...]

What is Kriya Yoga? If yoga is the process of evolving spiritually, which it is, then what is Kriya in yoga? Let’s back up a little and look at the situation. Yoga was created and practiced to [...]

What is Pranayama? Yoga is both and art and a science. It is a science because it follows a tried and tested methodology to help you progress from illusion to illuminated. One step naturally [...]

It’s difficult to keep track of what’s going on in the yoga world these days. Continually, new styles and flavors keep popping and it gets quite confusing. Let’s get a few terms straight and it [...]

Once you go beyond the mat and really start learning about yoga, you might soon realize that the number of kinds, styles and types of yoga is quite mind-boggling. How does one keep it all [...]

Greetings All! This Full moon will culminate on September 14th at 10:02 am ISD in the sign of Aquarius.  This Full moon is also the fortnight called Pitri Paksha, the annual 15 day worship of our [...]

As most people will admit, breathing is essential to life. Those who don’t are simply ignoring reality. All living beings have some type of respiration, including plants, though their respiration [...]

Happy New Moon All!This one snuck up on me!  This New Moon culminates on May 5th at 4:15 am IST (May 4th 3:45 pm PST), which means it has already started as I write this.The New Moon occurs in [...]

Happy Purnima to all! This full moon culminates on April 19th at 4:42 PM IST (4:12 AM PST) The moon is in the sign of Libra and the lunar house of Chitra.  Libra is a very relational sign, and [...]

Energy and Prana in Flow Swara yoga is a unique yoga style based on the wisdom of traditional Tantra, Ayurveda, Hatha Yoga and Yoga Therapy. It works to enhance the flow of life force (prana) to [...]

It’s an established fact that the breath is the foundation of life. The yogis have often said that the average person can go for 2 weeks without water, 1 week without food but only a few minutes [...]

Listen to our short talk on the Earth element and how it manifests in yoga practice through the body, breath and mind.  

Spiritual practices are designed to enhance the quality of your experiences in life. Spirituality is the heightened state of connection to yourself and your environment on every level; this can [...]

We’ve all heard it in yoga classes- “Breathe!” and when given the instruction, we do often pay more attention to the breath, at least for a time. So often our attention is mainly on the physical [...]

Greetings All! This is a very special New Moon, known as “Mauna Amabasya’ in India. Mauna means silence in Sanskrit. In India people take a vow to fast from both food and speech on this day. The [...]

Happy Purnima All! This Full Moon Eclipse occurs in the sign of Cancer and the lunar house of Pushya. Though Pushya is viewed as the most favorable of the moon houses, and to have a full moon [...]

Happy New Year to all!   2019 is coming in with an intense start astrologically!  Just a few days into the New Year we have our first eclipse!  This is a Partial Solar Eclipse ( Solar [...]

The time around Christmas, New Year’s and the Winter Solstice is a very significant time for spiritual practice. Listen to our latest podcast to find out more about the spiritual power of [...]

Recently, I have had the opportunity to experience a variety of yoga classes in western yoga studios, something I have not done in quite a long time. I was curious to see what ‘normal’ classes [...]

Join us for this unique Taoist breathing meditation called Bone Marrow Breathing. This guided meditation will take you through a powerful internal practice which is based on the ancient art of [...]

Meditation is an essential practice in yoga. In fact, originally meditation was THE main practice of yoga but many modern yogis do not regularly engage in meditation. The effects of meditation [...]

Greetings All! This New moon culminates on December 7th at 12:50 IST, or December 6th 11:20 pm PST.  This one occurs in the sign of Scorpio and the Nakshatra (lunar house) of Jyestha, conjunct [...]

True yoga is not only a practice on the mat, it is also the art of action (and non-action) that we have to practice every minute of our lives. It is the practice of keeping ourselves together [...]

Around the world, the practice of yoga has grown massively in the last 20 years. The number of people currently practicing and teaching yoga is larger than at any other time in history. Back in [...]

The greatest mystery of life is the that fact that we are alive. We move, breathe, feel and act; but what is behind it all? In yoga, the force that keeps living things living is called prana: the [...]

You’ve been on the mat, you’ve felt the exhilaration of achieving new postures and practices, but can it last? The Yogis say that magic can last, but it changes, as all things do. You might [...]

We all know that yoga stretches the body and creates strength and physical balance, but what is really responsible for the astounding changes that happen to us? If we look deeper into what [...]

Many of us have studied the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in our 200 Hour Training and we all do Hatha Yoga, but what makes the two systems of spiritual evolution different? Isn’t one the same as the [...]

We all feel how powerful and amazing the effect of yoga is. It can change a bad day into a good one, a busy mind into a clear one and a mundane life into an extraordinary one. The only catch is [...]

Yoga is a vastly diverse form of spiritual practice. It can take so many different forms that it is literally endless. Some yoga practice is just mantra chanting, some practices involve [...]

Yoga is one of the most dynamic and versatile practices on earth. It is, originally, the practice of self-refinement and spiritual development. Exactly what form this takes is really up to you. [...]

Hopefully you have had the opportunity to learn about the origins and traditional practices of yoga. It is important to learn about where yoga came from and why it exists. Today’s yoga has many [...]

According to the Tantrics, the universal exists due to a force called Shatkti; it is the energy which animates all life, movement and change everywhere. The system of spiritual refinement that is [...]

The practice of yoga is what is called a ‘vidya’. Vidya means timeless wisdom.  The yoga is a specific style and approach to this eternal wisdom. Eternal wisdom is something that applies to all [...]