Self-care practices rich in nourishment and self-love can be found in Ayurveda. For any operating system, regular maintenance is key to optimal performance and longevity. For our human operating system maintenance includes regular self-care in order to experience a finely tuned physical body, healthy state of mind, a well-balanced emotional operating system, and a daily dose [...]
An Ayurvedic Practice to Awaken Perception By Jeff Perlman Imagine taking a simple inhalation that is far more powerful than one of the hundreds of unconscious breaths you take each day. This inhalation carries the magic of an Ayurvedic herbal formula that not only awakens your perception, but also stimulates your intelligence and balances the [...]
We all experience life’s sweet moments. These are so magical that you feel suffused with vitality and gratitude, slightly high. These flashes may come after working hard pursuing your passion – you just did a hard yoga class perfectly matched to your skill level, and now you are on your mat happy and exhausted. You [...]
Using desire as an awareness tool for action. It’s eight in the morning, and suddenly the desire for a beer pops into my consciousness. Wait, what? An image has just flashed in my awareness – a glass mug filled with an amber fluid. The mug is tilted slightly and dripping with condensation. As I [...]
Yoga health benefits are universal-- pranayama and asana for musicians Music is one of the purest forms of human communication. Musicians are the ambassadors and delivery boys and girls of the universal message of harmony, joy, and light…oh yeah, and the cathartic communion of the blues. As conduits, musicians must transmit this godly information into [...]
An introduction to safe use of essential oils for yoga practice. The penetrating aroma of essential oils has a powerful effect on our physiology and emotions, impacting every cell of our being. There are many ways to use aromatherapy for self-healing. By using specific essential oils in combination with our yoga, pranayama, and meditation practices, [...]
Rivers of Power: Meditation with the Radiance Sutras by Dr. Lorin Roche It’s a hot afternoon in the desert, at Bhaktifest in Joshua Tree, and my energies are starting to fade. The chanting has been going on around the clock for days and I feel saturated. What sounds good right now is to go jump in [...]
Rama Jyoti Vernon shares insights from more than sixty years of yoga study in her new book, Yoga: The Practice of Myth and Sacred Geometry. (Lotus Press) Rama Jyoti Vernon’s transformational text, Yoga: The Practice of Myth and Sacred Geometry, takes on a spiritual odyssey of epic proportions. Her writings reflect the culmination of more than sixty [...]
Chanting, yoga therapy, and must-have qualities for a yoga therapist A teacher of Yoga and Vedic Chant for over twenty-five years, Sonia Nelson has been a student of T.K.V. Desikachar since 1975 and serves as Director of the Vedic Chant Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sonia gives seminars and workshops nationwide and has released [...]
Conversations with Yoga Therapists Ask the Expert We recently caught up with Dr. Vasant Lad, the eminent Ayurvedic physician, author, and professor, and asked him to share his knowledge and thoughts on good health, Yoga therapy, and what qualities he believes make for a good Yoga therapist. Dr. Vasant Lad has authored numerous articles and [...]