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Tuesday, January 15, 2013 by Kathleen Bryant
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Jyotish: Get To Know Vedic Astrology
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If you couldn’t resist checking your horoscope to see what the new year holds, you’re not alone. Astrology is firmly embedded in popular culture, familiar as one-size-fits-most newspaper horoscopes and famous as that hoary pick-up line, “What’s your sign?” Little known in the West, however, is the astrology of the yogis known as Jyotish, or the Science of Light.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013 by Tosca Braun
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Releasing What No Longer Serves
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Do you experience “negative, unwanted thoughts” that may hinder your New Year's resolutions? A new study in the journal, Psychological Science, suggests that writing down such thoughts, and subsequently discarding them, may result in a corresponding mental release. From a yogic perspective, releasing what does not serve invites deeper integrity and alignment with one’s intentions and self.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013 by Kathleen Bryant
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Yoga Teacher Helps Sandy Hook Responders
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Weeks
after the December 14 shootings at Sandy
Hook Elementary School, yoga teacher Linda Antignani read a news story
about the police officers who were first on the nightmarish scene. Many were
struggling to cope with the trauma, but the town’s insurer wouldn’t cover
post-traumatic stress-related illnesses, and several officers were nearing the
end of their paid sick leaves, still unable to return to work. Because a number
of yoga students at Antignani’s studio, Mother’s Embrace Yoga in
Shelton, CT, are police officers or married to officers, the story hit her
especially hard. “I was feeling very helpless,” she admitted.
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013 by Meredith Sims
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Top 10 Yoga Stories of 2012
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What
a memorable year in yoga! We’ve seen stories ranging from controversial to inspirational and everything in between. We look back and highlight some of the
year’s most noteworthy topics.
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Friday, December 28, 2012 by Kathleen Bryant
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The First Yoga Sutra: The Power of Now
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“Now begins the study of yoga.” In this simple, yet rich,
translation of Patanjali’s
Sutra I:1, Atha
yoganushasanam, immediately we see how succinct and pointed the sutras are,
centuries of knowledge distilled to a single thread. There are dozens of English translations of the
Yoga Sutras, some simple
and conversational, some scholarly.
You’ll even find a few online, including this brilliantly
cross-linked version from Swami Jnaneshvara, or this
practical contemporary translation from an Ashtanga instructor, each
commentator offering a valuable and unique perspective. It’s also valuable to listen
to the sutras and repeat them in the manner they were presented originally.
Rhythmic chanting not only helps with recall but also works on a subtle level
of vibration, going beyond the intellect to deepen your understanding.
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Monday, December 24, 2012 by Kathleen Bryant
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9 Ways To Build Your Yoga Community
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You sweat together, cry together, and support each other physically
during asana practice, but do you and your yoga classmates support each other outside
the studio? If your yoga home is a safe space for growth with friends who
inspire you, count yourself lucky. If you’re longing to create a yoga family,
here are nine simple ideas for starters. Though most are geared toward teachers
or studios, students can pitch in to launch ideas and build momentum.
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Friday, December 21, 2012 by Tosca Braun
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Does Mindfulness Blunt the Conscience?
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Mindfulness in
schools: It’s the latest buzz, prompted in part by rapidly-proliferating
programs such as Goldie Hawn’s MindUP. In the wake of recent publicity, a
blog by Vancouver schoolteacher Tina Oleson argues that non-judgmental
awareness (a core teaching of mindfulness) risks “interfering with the child’s
ability to heed his sense of right and wrong.” Yet Oleson’s critique belies a
fundamental, if understandable, misconception of “non-judgment."
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 by Kathleen Bryant
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The Gift Of An Open Heart
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The winter holiday season—whether you celebrate Christmas,
Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or solstice—is a celebration of light within darkness. It’s
a time of year associated with friendship, abundance, gifting, and other joys.
Tragically, the darkness within that light has come to include seasonal
depression, family drama, and even violence, from a mall in Oregon to an
elementary school in Connecticut.
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Friday, December 14, 2012 by Kathleen Bryant
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Patanjali, Man or Myth?
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Yoga’s roots, some say, stretch back thousands of years to
the Indus-Sarasvati
river valleys of Northern India. Yoga as we practice it today bears little
resemblance to that ancient knowledge. There is, however, a thread connecting
the old and new, traced by a scholar named Patanjali roughly 2,000 years ago.
Ashtanga yogis invoke Sage
Patanjali in their opening mantra, but no matter which yoga family we
belong to, we are all heirs of Patanjali.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 by Tosca Braun
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Facing Fear of Death Through Yoga
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Death is the one certainty we face. How do you
make sense of this inevitability? A recent New York Times piece describes one man’s journey to India, where a yoga instructor informs
him “yoga is not some circus routine you
do with your body. It is about aligning the body, breath, intellect, and soul.”
Yoga is also, he noted, “dying many times before we actually die—and that way
we are forced to find calmness and experience rebirth.”
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Brrr! Winter is the season of kapha, the dosha that ayurveda
(yoga’s sister science) describes as cold, wet, and heavy—like a blanket of
new-fallen snow. Kapha
is comprised of the water and earth elements, and it provides us with
physical structure—the body’s tissues and fluids. Strong bones; beautiful
teeth; lustrous hair, skin, and eyes; physical and emotional stamina—these are
the gifts of kapha dosha.
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012 by Kathleen Bryant
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Resolving Conflict Through Yoga
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Combine post-election grumbles with the family holiday table
and you have the ingredients for conflict. Fortunately, if you practice yoga,
you also have the recipe to help ease the upset.
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Friday, November 30, 2012 by Kathleen Bryant
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Planning A Yoga Retreat? Things To Consider
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With winter approaching, many of us daydream about escaping
on a sunny yoga vacation or retreat. Retreat literally means “withdraw,” and
the idea is to withdraw from one’s daily life, whether that means a mix of
asana and adventure at a luxury
resort, a week living like a sannyasin
in an ashram setting,
or an at-home sadhana
of asana, meditation, and cleansing.
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Can meditation
help your brain process emotions even when you’re not meditating? Contemplative
philosophies would posit “yes”; practice is undertaken in preparation for life,
such that a more mindful orientation generalizes to life outside of formal
practice. A new
study by DesBordes and colleagues in the journal Frontiers in
Neuroscience provides the
first evidence to support this. Meditation training was found to impact cortical processing of negative emotions outside of formal meditation.
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