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Bhakti YogaBhakti Yoga is the yoga of devotion and is perfect for people who are emotional by nature. Through prayer, worship and ritual, one comes to see the Divine as the embodiment of love. Chanting mantras is an essential part of Bhakti Yoga. Read more about Bhakti Yoga in Our Teachings section.
Seven Practices to learn how to Love
Love is selfless and unconditional. Conditional love is selfish and emotional. Emotions need to be purified to become pure love. Emotions come from our lower mind and our subconscious mind which carries impressions of the past. Yoga teaches us to purify the usual, habitual, tainted love, in other words, our lower mind and to activate our higher mind.
Transition in Relationships
Today we continue the topic of the Yoga of Relationships and how to handle transition. How do we manage our relationships? We said yesterday that everything just flows from one thing to another. Life is in transition at all times. Life is a flow. We just need to follow the flow in its many different aspects. One of the aspects is relationships, human relationships.
Yoga of Relationships in the time of COVID 19 crisis
In this webinar, we will address the question of how to be with ourselves and be happy no matter the outside interpersonal conditions and collective conditions (social distancing, be in isolation or working with groups, living with families and community, in intimate relationship, being alone or in search of close relationships).
Fear, Stress, Anxiety or Faith – How to Maintain Mental Health in Times of Epidemic
In this talk, we will try to understand, in the context of the global epidemic, how fear and anxiety create havoc and take away your well-being and mental health, and how faith is so important in dispelling fear.
Lord Siva and Detachment
On the occasion of Sivaratri, the festival of Lord Siva, celebrated by millions, this is an offering to help understand how contemplation on Lord Siva can guide us in our life.
24 Gurus of Dattatreya : Nature is the Greatest Teacher
Once, while Dattatreya was roaming in a forest happily, he met King Yadu, who on seeing Dattatreya so happy, asked him the secret of his happiness and the name of his Guru. Dattatreya said that the Atman alone was his Guru, and yet, he had learned wisdom from 24...
Forgiveness: A talk given by Dr. Fred Luskin
In this talk Dr. Luskin outlines the procedure for forgiveness. This talk was transcribed (with some editing for clarity and brevity) almost verbatim from a video which was recorded on a zoom call.
Swami Sivananda’s Guide on How to Overcome Depression
It is very easy to overcome depression. It is not at all as difficult as one imagines. Mind has the mysterious power of magnifying a problem and making it appear formidable. Do not listen to the promptings of the mind. Reject them ruthlessly and throw them out. Here...
Yoga Teachings on Selfless Love | Part 2
In this talk Swami Sitaramananda will teach about our negative emotional patterns and we can turn this instead into Selfless love. The main practice to do this is through Bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion). By doing this we uplift our self and others...
Yoga Teachings on Selfless Love | Part 1
In this talk Swami Sitaramananda will teach about our negative emotional patterns and we can turn this instead into Selfless love. The main practice to do this is through Bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion). By doing this we uplift our self and others...
Understanding the Addictive Mind
In this podcast Swami Sitaramanandause talks about the use of yoga to heal addictions. Yoga teaches us to practice self surrender and by doing this we can understand better how the mind works. When the mind is very active there are many thought waves which...
The Yoga of Relationships
In this podcast, Swami Sitaramananda talks on how The Yoga of Relationship teaches us about emotional patterns that we usually follow within relationship.
Yoga and the Koshas for Spiritual, Mental and Physical Health
What are the Koshas and how does Yoga heal the Spiritual, Mental and Physical levels? For the healing aspect of yoga, we have to go into the deep root cause…
Spiritual Guidance
Spiritual guidance that comes from living in a spiritual community that follows a guru lineage is essentially the teaching of life lessons.
Suffering Can Be Our Greatest Teacher
Yoga is a scientific method to alleviate suffering and help people find the Truth and Essence in the teachings of all religions.
Videos – Yoga of Relationships
In the Yoga of Relationships we learn to see the Self in all beings so that we can respect our differences and live harmonious with others.
Yoga Life and Self Transformation
Yoga Life and Self Transformation is a film that describes an ancient path which can lead us to health and happiness. It is called Yoga.
Mantras and Meditation: Fancy, Fiction and Fact – reprinted from 1970s
This article has been taken from the new Yoga Life book, published late last year. This is a collection of articles that come from the YOGALife magazine published by the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers from 1970 to 2012. Most of these articles are written by...
Why We Chant
Why we Chant by Swami Sitaramananda There is another way to connect to the inner truth within you. That is through chanting. If I go to a restaurant in China, I want to order food and communicate with people, then I have to speak Chinese. If I go to Spain, then I have...
The Dynamic of Concentration and Self-Surrender
Swami Sivananda’s last instruction, summarizing Yoga, is, “Remember, Forget.” Remember the Divine and forget or let go, of everything else.
How do emotions work?
The first thing to know is how long has that negative emotion like anger for example has been there. How long have you been depressed? Some people would say that they have been depressed all their life. Others would say, I have been depressed for one month...
Yogic Tools for Transforming Negative Emotions
To work with the emotions, we need to understand their forms and manifestations and learn how to properly handle them. All emotions are forms of Love, but distorted. Because love is at the root of every emotion, we can learn to bring the emotions back from negative...
9 Ways to Practice Bhakti Yoga in Daily Life
Bhakti Yoga is the branch of yoga that focuses on devotion and devotional practices. God is love and love is God. Bhakti yoga uses our fundamental emotional relationships and sublimates them into pure, selfless, divine love. There are 9 traditional ways to sublimate...
Yoga of Relationships: The way to Selfless Love
Yoga of relationships teaches life is nothing but relationship and nothing is independent because we are in relationship at all times.
Jaya Ganesha is the Daily Chants at the Sivananda Ashram. Ganesha represents the remover of obstacles on our path to happiness.
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