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  1. Yoga At the Olympics: Welcome Move

    Like any competitive sport such as gymnastics, yoga postures need grace, style, balance and flexibility. Yet yoga has something deeper to offer. To many it is a spiritual practice, a pathway to a more profound understanding of life. Dinesh Kashikar, senio ...
  2. Art of Yoga: Slow and Steady Yoga Postures Win the Race

    A few tips by senior Sri Sri Yoga teachers on learning the ‘art’ of yoga asanas or postures. Remember the first time you started practicing your favorite hobby – photography, music, dance, anything. At first, there was a struggle, an effort to get things ...
  3. Yoga In Airplane: 5 In-flight Yoga Poses

    Benefits of in-flight yoga Release muscle tension Increase blood circulation Relax your mind Soothe the nervous system Decrease anxiety Be fresh to take on the activities after you land Sitting still for hours together on a flight can make the body go num ...
  4. Sri Sri Yoga Level 2

    De-tox your body, de-stress your mind Are you looking for a perfect vacation just with yourself, a chance to pamper and love your body, some time to forget all your worries and completely relax in a peaceful locale? Look forward to all this and more at th ...
  5. Hurdles on the Path of Yoga

    Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 24 Contd. from knowledge sheet 23 What are the obstacles on the path to discovery? They add up to nine. "Vyadhistyanasamshaya pramadalasyavirati bhrantidarshanalabdha bhoomikatvanavasthitatvani chittavikshepaste ...
  6. Live in the Moment

    Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 13 Contd. from knowledge sheet 12 Dispassion does not take joy away from you. Dispassion gives you joy that nothing else can give you. There is a verse in Shankaracharya’s composition Bhaja Govindam: Kasya sukham na ...
  7. Yoga and Food

    When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need. ~Ayurvedic Proverb ‘Isn’t it enough just to practice the Yoga asanas/ poses, do I have to regulate my food?’ wonder many. In itself, practicing Yoga asanas is one of th ...
  8. In which yoga posture should I sit for meditation?

    “If you want to stand on one leg and meditate, that is also fine," smiled Dinesh Ghodke, senior Art of Living teacher, when replying to this question. "You can meditate in any posture in which you feel comfortable and can hold steadily.” Surpris ...
  9. Why should you choose village yoga

    Yoga is said to be the union of the body, mind and the breath. Though there are a prescribed set of asanas that take you through that journey- the principles of yoga can be applied across any activity and any situation. “Yoga is not just exercise and asan ...
  10. Yoga for Health and Wellness

    Health is not a mere absence of disease. It is a dynamic expression of life – in terms of how joyful, loving and enthusiastic you are- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar One who is stable and established in the self is healthy. That is to say that identifying a ...