Reasons why Ujjayi, a breathing exercise, should be used in the classroom. So, your kids are all ready for the new school year. Backpack? Check! Pencils and erasers? Check! Notebooks? Check! Ujjayi? Ujjayi? You don’t mean you forgot the ujjayi, did you??? Back to School time can be [...]
How the air we breathe can teach us about our environment During a workshop, I heard a woman say, “Breath is exciting.” She spoke with the delight a person would reserve for talking about a delicious and slightly dangerous love affair. Victoria (not her real name) continued, “Ever since I was a little girl, I [...]
Engaging in The Three-Minute Cure is a conscious stress management practice that can elicit the Relaxation Response. While negotiating the obstacles of Delhi’s traffic, including families on motorcycles, mobile street vendors, and cows meandering across the roadway, my driver, Kumar, a yoga practitioner who likened himself to a Grand Prix racer, maintained a remarkable measure [...]
Ayurveda and the power of the breath The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of body and environment. Meditation works by bringing an effect from the level of Being to the mind. With the breath, we bring this effect to the physical level as well. [...]
Ayurveda and the Athlete: Recovery begins with the first breath. Skateboarding the Great Wall or base jumping from Mt Everest. While these may be examples on the far end of the sport spectrum, in general, people now are chasing extreme pendulum shifts to extract as much pleasure-seeking juice out of their dopamine receptors as they [...]
While the positive aspects of travel include seeing new places, meeting new people, and many other joyful experiences, we have to find ways to cope with the mind/body stress and anxiety associated with changes in our usual daily routines and rhythms. According to the science of Ayurveda, the psycho-physiological, elemental or chemical balance of an [...]