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  • Origins of Yoga in India
    The yoga is one of the most ancient human practices, and physical and archaeological evidence of the practice dates...
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  • Sound Healing
    In the last year, the world has undergone immense collective trauma. Individually, lives changed dramatically as political strife and...
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  • The Benefits of Quiet Yoga
    The benefits of quiet yoga are well-studied and vastly understood both in the scientific and yogic communities. Yin and...
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  • A Yoga Nidra Practice for Releasing Grief
    By Tracee Stanley Photograph by Anastia Chomlack Try this restorative practice, from teacher Tracee Stanley, to get grounded and connect with...
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  • Anger- How to Diffuse it
    By Gary Kraftsow The rajas guna can be characterized as an energy of activity and creativity. When it predominates, however,...
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  • Stress and Disease- Your Mind is A Key Factor
    By Gary Kraftsow The bodily response to stress initiated in the hypothalamus, known as the fight-or-flight response, involves a chain...
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  • Dragonfly- Yin Yoga for Groin and Hamstrings
    Yin Yoga is becoming one of the most popular styles of yoga. Yin Yoga as taught by Paul Grilley...
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  • How to Thrive- 7 Simple Steps
      by Tracee Stanley If you feel like everyone around you is thriving or taking their life to the next level...
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  • Dear God, It’s Yoga
    At my brother’s wedding last month in New York, I mentioned to a wedding guest that I wrote about...
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  • Yoga Therapy: A Living Healing Tradition Part 2
    The City Dweller and the Nine Cities By Gary Kraftsow As the ancients recognized, human experience plays out on a vast...
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  • Simple Abdominal Twist- Yoga for Digestion
    Jathara Paravritti: Abdominal Twist By Gary Kraftsow Under pressure because of looming deadlines? Feeling stressed because your to-do list is daunting...
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  • Influencing the Direction of Change: Practicing Yoga for Stress Reduction
    By Gary Kraftsow Life is inherently stressful, and the effects of that stress cause suffering. The ancient yogis understood this...
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  • Half Frog- Easy Yin Yoga for the Hamstrings and Groin
    By Paul Grilley Half Frog stretches the hamstrings and the groin. Because the pelvis is pushed forward by the Half...
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  • Fulfilling Your Dharma
    By Gary Kraftsow We all have certain fundamental responsibilities and obligations to fulfill in life. As parents, we have a...
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  • Chakravakasana- Yoga for a Healthy Back and Spine
    A classic for an exceptional reason, chakravakasana not only promotes healthy digestion and elimination, but this dynamic asana aids...
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  • DESIGNING YOUR HOME YOGA PRACTICE
    by Paul Grilley Guiding Principles: As you develop your own sequences of poses, please keep these ideas in mind: 1. Every yoga...
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  • 6 Steps to Building Your Capacity in an Uncertain 2017
    by Tracee Stanley How can you find stability and clarity and when everyone around you is in a constant state...
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  • How to Bring Loving-Kindness into Your Day
    By Sarah & Ty Powers The word in Sanskrit for that quality of love that permeates our natural being is...
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  • Why You Shouldn't Skip Savasana
    By Gary Kraftsow Savasana: Corpse Pose To practice self-care is to activate, embody and embrace self-love and what better way to...
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  • Apanasana- Calming and Grounding Yoga Pose
    Apanasana: Knees-to-Chest Pose "Let it go." It is a phrase we often hear as encouragement to free our grasp onto...
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  • What is Yoga? with Carol Krucoff and Kimberly Carson
      WHAT IS YOGA? with Carol Krucoff and Kimberly Carson Yoga is coming into union, being united with what is. Through this...
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  • Sukhasana
    Sukhasana: Seated Easy Pose Whether it's been a long day or week filled with joyous times or a few more...
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  • The Foundation of Steadiness and Ease in Yoga
    By Sarah Powers Patanjali’s linked concepts of “sthira” and “sukha” — steadiness and ease — can help structure your teaching....
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  • Shakti and Chi
    Chi is constantly circulating through our meridians but the vast potential of Shakti lies dormant in the first chakra...
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  • Yin/Yang Yoga - Find Power in Stillness
    By Sarah Powers Do you find sitting for meditation uncomfortable and difficult? Or feel that while you’d like more balance...
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  • Maintain a Healthy Spine Through Yoga
    By Paul Grilley Some yoga instructors insist that students avoid curvature of the spine by insisting on tucking the pelvis....
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  • Elevating the Pelvic Floor
    By Shalmali Pal It's a unique situation: A group of women, gathered together in a yoga studio, to discuss their...
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  • How the Internet Effects Our Brain
    By Nicholas Carr In 2008 , Small and two of his colleagues carried out the first experiment that actually showed...
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  • Living Yoga by Sarah Powers
    Answering the Call FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, retreat has been a crucial part of yogic life. All over Asia, whether...
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  • Tips to Help You Embody Self-Care
    Be Your Own Sunshine Everyday Tips to Help You Embody Self-Care Right at Home By Sabrina Samedi Let’s face it, we may...
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  • Cultivating a Home Yoga Practice
    By Sabrina Samedi For many of us, the time we spend on the mat whether it's for a sweat-cleansing power...
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  • Energizing Morning Yoga Practice
    Not all of us have time for a leisurely 90 minute yoga practice in the morning even when we...
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  • Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day
    Dwipada Pitham:  Two-footed Bridge Pose The breath is the soundtrack to your well-being. Let's allow such a vital and energetic essence...
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    Embracing Self-Love via Self-Care
    To Care For Yourself is to LOVE Yourself By Sabrina Samedi The month of love, or rather the month of being...
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  • Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day
    Vajrasana: Kneeling or Diamond Pose By Sabrina Samedi Advancements in technology are not only coming at us from both left and...
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  • Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day
    Urdhva Prasarita Padasana: Upward Stretched Legs Despite our best intentions, we often need an extra nudge of willpower to help...
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  • Strawberry Cheesecake: A Recipe for LOVE
    By Sabrina Samedi Everyday is a reason to celebrate love and rejoice in the magic of soulful and good intentions,...
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  • Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day
    Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day Virabadrasana I: Warrior 1 Pose Somedays we need to repeat our daily affirmations and morning mantras...
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  • Conscious Gift Giving Guide
    by Sabrina Samedi There is something magical about this time of year, maybe it's the million volts of electricity that...
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  • Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day
    Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day Bhujangasana: Cobra Pose Too many lunch breaks compromised for dates with your keyboard? Feeling the...
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  • The 3rd Dimension: The Mind
    The Third Dimension: The Intellectual Mind By Gary Kraftsow The ancients recognized the inherent power of the mind and the tremendous...
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  • Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day
    Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day Vimanasana: Chariot or Airplane Pose The fact is that we are all human and we...
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  • The Second Dimension: The Vital Body and Pranamaya
    By Gary Kraftsow According to the ancients, the vital body consists of five identifiable aspects: prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, ākāśa, and...
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  • What is a Chakra? by Paul Grilley
    by Paul Grilley Chakras are spiritual centers in the brain and spinal cord where the physical, astral, and causal bodies...
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  • Yoga Therapy Tip of the Day | Salabasana
    Salabasana= Locust Pose Ardha Salabasana= Half Locust Pose To practice self-care is to embody self-love and who couldn't use more self-love...
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  • What is Prānāyāma?
    By Gary Kraftsow According to theories in neuroscience, the evolutionary origin of the limbic system is linked to the sense...
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  • The First Dimension: The Physical Body
    By Gary Kraftsow According to the ancients , the physical body consists of five aspects: the head, the torso ,...
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  • The Yin and Yang Of the Tissues by Paul Grilley
    By Paul Grilley Yang tissues should be exercised in a Yang way and Yin tissues should be exercised in a...
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  • Paul Grilley discusses the Functional Approach to Yoga- Podcast
    Stay tuned for Paul Grilley's new upcoming program. To see more from Paul please visit:Paul Grilley info
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  • Yoga To Strengthen Pelvic Floor Could Help Women With Urinary Incontinence
    An old school yoga program, designed to improve pelvic health, could help women who suffer from urinary incontinence, according to a new...
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  • Sneak Peek of Paul Grilley's New Pranamaya Program
    You've watched the Anatomy for Yoga by Paul Grilley as well as his Yin Yoga, Chakra Theory and online...
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  • Kríyā Yoga: Transformation Through Practice
    By Gary Kraftsow A seed sprouts, shoots up, and becomes a plant or a tree. The ancients believed that our...
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  • Podcast- Pelvic Floor Health and Yoga with Leslie Howard
    Join Pranamaya Wisdom in a conversation about the pelvic floor with master yoga teacher Leslie Howard. Leslie is known...
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  • Dhi Is A Word Every Yogi Should Know
    by Chanti Tacoronte-Perez, MA In school we learn the A, B, C’s or the important aspects of a variety of...
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  • Yoga Therapy Mini-Workshop Cakravakasna
    Viniyoga founder Gary Kraftsow demonstrates how and why we practice cakravakasna and how to do it to maximum effect....
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  • Moon Rises- Hip Opener Tutorial with Jill Miller
    Jill Miller shares this dynamic sequence from her Yoga Link: Hip Helpers DVD. This is hip opener a great...
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  • So Hum Meditation with Sri Dharma Mittra
    Sri Dharma Mittra explains the So Hum meditation. So Hum is said to be the mantra that we are...
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  • Yoga Therapy Mini-Workshop -Warrior One
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSivityzC4o Visit our website at www.pranamaya.com to find out more about Gary Kraftsow, Viniyoga and Yoga Therapy. Use the Promo code...
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  • A Guide to Tripsichore Yoga
    Yoga as art: that is the concept with which Tripsichore Yoga Theatre has been captivating audiences around the world....
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  • The Best Quick Yoga Routine to Start Your Day
    Not all of us have time for a leisurely 90 minute yoga practice in the morning. Between sleeping, home...
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  • Our Top 5 Favorite Ways to Unwind and Destress
    You would be hard pressed to find someone who actually enjoys being stressed out. Sweaty palms, racing heartbeat, headaches,...
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  • 4 Items You Need to Bring to Every Yoga Class
    It’s never been easier to supplement your yoga practice with items to make practice easier, healthier, and less stressful....
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  • YinYoga with Paul
    How Learning From the Best Yin Yoga DVD Can Help You Relax
    Yoga is typically thought of as a form of exercise that also focuses on relaxation. While this is true,...
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  • Deep Blue Sea Blend: One of Our Favorite All Natural Detoxifying Drinks
    Whether you’re a full-fledged yogi or you’re just starting out, it’s important to know that the foods and drinks...
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  • Strawberry Cheesecake: A Recipe for LOVE
    By Sabrina Samedi Everyday is a reason to celebrate love and rejoice in the magic of soulful and good intentions,...
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  • Target Problem Areas with These Essential Yoga Poses for Back Pain
    There are many causes of back pain, and many different areas that can be affected. However, one thing is...
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  • An Introduction to Shamatha Meditation
    Meditation is used by many people for a variety of reasons. Some use the practice as a way to...
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  • 3 Yoga Meditation Techniques to Reduce Anxiety
    Have you ever had one of those days where you can’t seem to clear your head, and anxiety keeps...
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    The Chakra Meditation Guide for Beginners
    The seven chakras are the energy centers of our body. Blocking the energy in any of these seven chakras...
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  • How to Determine the Best Meditation DVD for Your Needs
    If you are new to meditation, it  is worthwhile to seek out a guide into the practice. The best...
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  • The Best Yoga DVD for Seniors Should Include These 3 Benefits
    Yoga has become an increasingly popular form of exercise over the past few years—and it’s no surprise. Practicing yoga...
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  • Relieve Lower Back Pain with Our Favorite Stretches
    Whether it’s at the daily 9 to 5 or during the commute home, we spend countless hours of the...
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  • The Functional Approach and Yin Yoga- My Day with Paul Grilley
    By Dearbhla Kelly Paul Grilley and his teaching partner and wife Suzee. Our group comprised mostly yoga teachers from as...
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  • Yin Yoga: An Exploration in Stillness
    Did you know that there are two types of yoga, the “Yin” and the “Yang?” Most popular yoga practices...
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  • What's the Best Time to Practice Yoga?
    If you are just starting out with your yoga practice, or even if you are an experienced practitioner, you...
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  • The Benefits of Online Yoga Courses
    There are many benefits to practicing yoga and taking online yoga courses, some of which you may already be...
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  • 5 of the Best Snacks to Indulge in Before Yoga Practice
    Like any other form of exercise, it is never a good idea to head into an intense yoga sweat-session...
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  • YIN AND YANG IN YOGA PRACTICE
    Yin and Yang Attitude All things have a yin-yang to them, even our attitude, and one way to illustrate the...
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  • 5 Teas That Boost Your Yoga Practice
    There is nothing more refreshing and restorative than the combination of yoga and tea. Tea is an incredible...
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  • All Natural Supplements That Enhance Yoga Sessions
    Making strong nutrition choices is one of the best things you can do for your body in tandem with...
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  • 5 Essential Yoga Poses That Target Back Pain
    A staggeringly high percentage of Americans suffer from bad back pain, and many choose to never seek treatment. Ignoring...
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  • Aetna's CEO Offers Viniyoga Therapy to Employees
    Recently we saw a New York Times article that truly inspired us. The CEO of health insurance giant Aetna...
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  • Top 5 Tips for Yoga Etiquette
    No matter where you are when you enjoy your yoga practice, that area is a sacred space. Yoga requires...
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  • Does Coffee Negatively Impact Your Yoga Practice?
    For so many of us, it’s part of the routine: brew a pot of coffee before work in the...
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  • The Best Clothes for Yoga Practice
    While one of the benefits of yoga is that you can practice many poses anywhere, wearing anything, what you...
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  • Can Juicing for Health Benefits Improve Your Yoga Routine?
    In the past few years the juicing trend has exploded: everyone from celebrities to your work colleagues are touting...
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  • What is Yin Yoga? An In-Depth Look
    What is Yin Yoga? Whether you are a new or seasoned yoga practitioner, the names of yoga classes on any...
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  • Yin Yoga: Principles and Practice
    Exercise in Awareness Some students say that they “Do not feel anything” when practicing asana or when they are relaxing...
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  • Yin Yoga: A Stretch By Any Other Name…
    By Paul Grilley Sometimes health professionals gnash their teeth when they hear a yogi say they are “stretching” their ligaments....
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  • 10 Reasons to Immediately Book Your First (or Next) Yoga Retreat
    by Tracee Stanley I have been leading international yoga retreats for over 10 years and each time I notice the...
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  • Yin Yoga and Stretching the Spine
    By Paul Grilley When working a joint the first thing a yogi or yogini must decide is whether she intends...
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  • Yin Yoga and the Breath
    By Sarah Powers Using our natural intelligence to focus on our breath and mobilize the distribution of prana throughout our...
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  • Determine What Type of Yoga Poses Are Right for You
    Yoga can be intimidating, to say the least. If you’ve ever admired the grace of a yoga class and...
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  • Why Does Yin Yoga Practice Feel So Good: Exploring the Three Tissues of the Body
    “Why does my body not move the way I want it to?” To answer this question we will look at...
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  • 10 Steps to Staying Inspired and Manifesting Your Intentions
    Staying inspired isn’t always easy. Sometimes just completing our daily mundane tasks- taking care of our kids, going to...
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  • Can Yoga Heal a Broken Heart?
    There are many ways that we become heartbroken. It can be from years of failed relationships, a betrayal from...
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  • What is Yin Yoga?
    Conventional yoga wisdom holds that nothing prepares your body for hours of seated meditation as well as regular asana...
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  • How to Meditate If You are a Hatha Yogi
    It’s my experience that people who are tied to movement need unmoving mediation even more than others. We all...
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  • To Make A Killing on Wall Street Start Meditating
    By Katherine Burton and Anthony Effinger When stock and bond markets took a dive in late January, hedge-fund manager David...
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  • What is Yoga? A Talk with Jill Miller
    Pranamaya had the chance to connect with YogaLink and Yoga Tune Up® creator Jill Miller recently. We asked her about...
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  • Gary Kraftsow Master Moment - How Important is it to Have a Personal Home Yoga Practice?
    Master teacher and founder of the American Viniyoga Institute, Gary Kraftsow answers the question that many yoga students and...
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  • What is Yoga? A Talk with Paul Grilley
    We recently had a chance to ask Paul Grilley a few questions about his understanding of yoga and how...
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  • Yoga for Anxiety
    Hatha yoga (the practice of physical poses with specific breathing techniques) has reached a level of cultural penetration...
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  • Yin Yoga Revolution
    Mindful yin yoga is a quietly radical practice that welcomes all bodies types and sizes regardless of injuries or...
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  • Mindful Cooking and Eating for the Holidays- Yoga and Ayurveda in the Kitchen
    By Mia Park The holiday season is upon us, which means that many celebratory meals await consumption. Many of us...
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  • Do You Spiritually Bypass?
    As a kid, I was a firecracker. If someone poked me, they would get poked back, or sent up...
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  • Is It Best to Date (or Marry) Another Yogi?
    Most modern day yoga practitioners are considered to be “householders” by the ancient texts. That means we hold down...
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  • Yoga, Injuries, and William J. Broad's Trainwreck
    Ten days ago, the New York Times published an opinion piece by senior science writer William J. Broad entitled...
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  • Do Yogis Have to Be Vegetarian?
    It’s one of the most controversial topics in the yoga world: vegetarianism. Some say you’re not truly practicing yoga...
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  • Should Yoga Traditions be Copyrighted?
    Yoga's back in court again! In 2003, Bikram Choudhury obtained a copyright for the sequence of poses he developed for his...
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  • Does Yoga Mix with Non-Hindu Religions?
    As the world gets smaller each day through the mixing and mingling that happens online, via air travel, and...
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  • Should Men Have Their Own Yoga Classes?
    Even after the yoga revolution of recent years, women still dominate the yoga scene. We’re the majority in the...
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  • Does Politics Belong in Yoga?
    You’re in a yoga class. The teacher mentions something about ahimsa and strongly states his opinion about all the...
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  • What Does It Mean to Live Your Dharma?
    Everywhere I go, I meet another person who is quitting a job to start a new business, pursue a...
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  • Do Yoga and Alcohol Mix?
    I gave up drinking within about a year of starting to do yoga. It wasn’t a moral issue. But...
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  • Do You Have (or have something against) Yoga Fashion?
    I spent this past weekend again at the incredible Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree: Four days of chanting, yoga-ing,...
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  • Does Your Yoga Tradition Matter?
    In modern culture, choosing a style of yoga is akin to strolling through the ice cream section at the...
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  • Is Asana Enough?
    I read an article once in a magazine that had this headline: “Is Asana Enough?” The article was about...
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  • Should Your Teacher Be Your Friend?
    In the early traditions of yoga, your teacher was your master, and you’d sit at his feet and obey...
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  • Attached to Your Practice—Or Just Disciplined?
    We practice yoga and meditation for many reasons, one of which is to let go of our attachments to...
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  • A Vacation … From Yoga?
    It’s Fourth of July … or Christmas, or spring break. You’re leaving behind your job and your daily routines...
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  • Are Yogis Self-Absorbed?
    Over the years, as I have become more deeply steeped in my practice, my circle of friends has grown...
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  • Solo or Group Practice: Which is Better?
    A well-respected senior teacher that I've studied with says that Hatha yoga shouldn’t be practiced in a group setting....
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  • What Does Gender Have to Do With Yoga?
    From an Eastern perspective, the practice of yoga is often thought of as having both masculine and feminine qualities....
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  • Do You Do Caffeinasana?
    It’s 5:30 in the evening and you’re leaving a crazy day at work to try and make a 6...
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  • What Is the Right Time to Practice?
    It’s often said that the best time for practice is just before dawn. This is because the mind and...
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  • Does Buddhism Belong in Yoga?
    I recently wrote an article for a yoga magazine where I inadvertently used a Buddhist term to describe what...
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  • Learning to Teach Too Soon?
    I began to consider becoming a yoga teacher after I had been practicing seriously for about seven years—though I...
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  • What Makes Yoga Yoga?
    I have a friend who doesn’t practice yoga. But he insists that running is his yoga. He gets up...
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  • Not in the Mood for Yoga?
    Even yogis have bad moods. Just because we have a mindfulness practice doesn’t mean crappy stuff doesn’t happen. A...
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  • Is Yoga For the Rich?
    Twenty dollar classes. Swanky studios with extensive boutiques selling $90 yoga pants. Conferences and conventions and retreats that cost...
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  • Do You Yogabop?
    I went to a flow yoga class a few weeks ago with a teacher I’d never before practiced with....
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  • Holiday Balancing Act
    I always find December to be a bit ungrounding. I think it’s because of how much opposite energies are...
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  • Who Owns Yoga?
    A couple of weeks ago, there was an article in The New York Times about a new campaign called...
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  • Down for the Count
    So, I’m working with an injury. Again. I spent much of last year with a tweaked hamstring and now...
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  • Flying (Mindfully) High
    For years, I always thought of yoga as a solitary act. Even when I was practicing in a room...
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  • Holy Kirtan
    A couple of weeks ago, I returned from the second annual Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California. For...
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  • Have a Seat
    My first yoga teachers simply didn’t teach seated meditation. But that didn’t bother me. I was restless when I...
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  • Yoga Class or Coffee Klatch?
    About a month ago, I went to a class, based on a friend’s recommendation, with a teacher I had...
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  • Are We Too (Em)Bodied?
    I didn’t come to yoga because I wanted a yoga butt. In fact, when I started practicing, I didn’t...
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  • Welcome to The Sacred Cow
    Welcome to The Sacred Cow! This is a brand new blog that I have developed in conjunction with Pranamaya...
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