"Breathing is very important. Without breathing spiritual body is not coming, spiritual mind also is not coming." - Sri K Pattabhi Jois Similarities Over Differences What do Christians, Muslims, Hindu’s, Buddhists, Atheists all have in common? What do children, seniors, males, females, Africans, Caucasians, Asians all have in common? What do criminals, saints, businessmen, prostitutes, preachers all have in common? What does every single human being alive on the planet right now have in common? Breath. We all breathe. No matter what the person's belief system, the actions they take take or what their outer shell looks like this one thing is done by every single human alive. You could be a saint and you breathe. You can be...
“Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.” ― Swami Vivekananda Cultivating Courage Vs Fear The Modern Yoga Practitioner's Dillema "I want to have backbends like Margaret (above) but haven't updated my Facebook status in 24 hours?" I don't know about you but I would rather end up more like a brave Hanuman with open psoas in hero pose vs a closed up computer guy with a great looking Facebook Page. That's just me though. My challenge like many people is that a large part of my work is tied to the being on a computer. So what is an aspiring yogi to do? How can I have a healthy hanuman psoas (not clenched in a fear position),...
"When I decided to open the yoga room and announced it as going to be an Ashtanga dedicated studio, a lot of people not only questioned what I was doing, but flat out said that two, three months and you will close shop, this is not going to succeed. All I thought it was... just open" - Joumana Saber, Owner of Yoga Room Dubai.
“I think that’s part of the practice. To be receptive of what arises within you. But you start to notice, there’s cycles. There’s cycles within your practice. There’s a time when you feel like you’re really building, building. Then there’s a time of a little bit breaking down. Hopefully it’s like an upward spiral and sometimes it goes down a little bit, then we build again. But I think when things break down again, it’s an opportunity to build differently. To build more intelligently.” - Laruga Glaser
