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Stressed at Office? Yoga can Help!

Competition from peers, long office hours and perpetual traffic jams – an everyday story of an office-goer. After all, what much can we do to fight these? Challenges have become a part of our day-to-day life at work and stress is a common household name. ...

Improve Communication Skills With Yoga

Inner balance found through yoga reflects in the personality and communication skills as well, finds out Anisha Sharma. When I started with yoga asanas and meditation years ago as a college student (thanks to my hostel warden’s initiative) I liked the aft ...

Nothing in this Creation is Devoid of Pain

Patanjali Yoga Sutra Knowledge Sheet 60 Contd. from knowledge sheet 59 Often, those who come to the course do not meditate. They open their eyes, “Is my girlfriend meditating? How is she doing? Is she enjoying the course? I forced her to come to the cours ...

Yoga & Meditation For a Peaceful Society

We all have our take on yoga. Don’t we? Yet when it comes from an advocate of peace, a strong believer and preacher of non-violence, a whole new dimension opens up in front of us. What does peace in Korea have to do with inner peace? What does stretching ...

Eliminating the Cause of Pain

Patanjali Yoga Sutra Knowledge Sheet 59 Contd. from knowledge sheet 58 If you look into the pleasure or joy that you get in life from the time of birth, they all come with a tax. You have to pay a tax for that and this tax is sorrow. In the next sutra, Pa ...

Meditation beats boredom

Patanjali Yoga Sutra Knowledge Sheet 58 Contd. from knowledge sheet 57 “ Sati mule tadvipako j a ty ayur bhogaha ” (II S u tra 13) sati = if existing; mule = root; tad = its; vip a ko = ripening; j a ti = the body into which you are born; ayuhu = life-tim ...

A journey within with YOGA NIDRA

Yoga Nidra or "yogic sleep" is an ancient practice which is little known to common people, but is getting a lot of attention due to its therapeutic effects on mind and body. It was spring of 2008 and I was looking for some refreshing yoga classe ...

Yoga And Time Management

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. – Ben Franklin Developing into a fully functional adult, for me, has been nothing short of a great adventure. I had moved halfway around the world from home, far ...

As You Sow, So Shall You Reap

Patanjali Yoga Sutra Knowledge Sheet 57 Contd. from knowledge sheet 56 "Te pratiprasavah heyah sukshmaha" (II Sutra 10) te = these; pratiprasava = become inactive; heyaha = destroyed; sukshmaha = subtle "When these become inactive and dest ...

Your Five Sources of Misery

Patanjali Yoga Sutra Knowledge Sheet 56 Contd. from knowledge sheet 55 " Sukha anushayi ragaha '' (II Sutra 7) sukha = pleasant experience; anushay i = attraction; ragaha = cravings. "Attraction to pleasant experience results in cravin ...