Yoga – The journey towards health!
“To keep the body in good health is a duty- otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear” Buddha Let me start with sharing my personal journey of transformation. I was never a “yoga” kind of person and never in my wildest dream thought that someday yoga would become my…
Insight to Meditation
“When mind minds the mind, matter doesn’t matter” Swami Swaroopananda Our mind is doing what it is meant to do i.e. to think. As the texture of a cloth determines its quality, similarly our thoughts determine the quality of our life. If we want to raise or improve the quality of our life, we need…
Gisele Bündchen Reveals How She Overcame Anxiety When Doctors Couldn’t Help
The hot Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen has not been a stranger to anxiety and panic attacks. In a tell-all interview on her mental health issues with Jay Shetty, she revealed the true nature of her mental health issues including anxiety. She also discussed the struggle she went through in trying to overcome these issues. She…
How to experience the ‘mental aspect’ of Yoga?
The ‘mental aspect’ of Yoga was posted by a user on reddit. The user asked “I see a lot of posts on here about “crying during yoga” or “feeling all the emotion” and I just haven’t experienced any emotion ever in my practice. I’m not sure if it’s because I haven’t really done in person…
Pranayama is critical before beginning Yoga Asanas
A lot of us don’t get the sequence of Yoga right or are trying out Yoga poses based on YouTube videos. In my experience, Yoga asanas are meant to be done and learned under the guidance of a trained professional or instructor. Otherwise, you can get the sequence wrong. Before any Yoga sequence, it’s important…
3 Simple Breathing Exercises To Calm Your Mind For Beginners in Yoga
One of the key things for beginners is to get regular with a Yoga practice. As a beginner, I struggled to be consistent with my Yoga practice. One of the things that helped me stay regular is taking a few steps, a few asanas at a time. We all tend to have busy schedules and…
Yoga For De-stressing: Ujjayi Pranayama
Yoga is an effective therapy for managing stress and anxiety. In this post, we’ll discuss one such breathing technique also called Ujjayi Pranayama. It has numerous health benefits including helping manage stress, and at the same time managing blood pressure, and increasing lung capacity. Yoga is increasingly used in clinical settings for a variety of…
Concentration: Its Practice – Swami Vivekananda
The practice of concentration is the second part in Swami Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga and a continuation of the first part, which describes the spiritual uses of concentration. The first part has the first 51 sutras of Patanjali where the uses of concentration have been described. The second part discussed below has the next 55 sutras…
Pranayama Exercises and Rising of Kundalini – Swami Vivekananda
The exercises in Pranayama have been detailed out in the chapter titled The Control Of The Psychic Prana in the book Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda. We have seen that the first step, according to the Yogis, is to control the motion of the lungs. What we want to do is to feel the finer…
Prana – Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
Pranayama is not, as many think, something about breath; breath indeed has very little to do with it, if anything. Breathing is only one of the many exercises through which we get to the real Pranayama. Pranayama means the control of Prana. Akasha According to the philosophers of India, the whole universe is composed of…
