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Healthy Spirit Part 3 – Become a Spiritual Seeker
The scriptures say that all physical disease comes from negative mental patterns, which starts with wrong thinking. The body is the instrument for you to go back to school, that’s why the state of spiritual health, or liberation is freedom from rebirth. It is said...
Healthy Spirit Part 2 – Changing Consciousness
The beauty that you see outside is within yourself To be spiritually healthy you have to find your bliss independent from objects, and that is a difficult task. Your habits make you constantly go down same pathways either emotional, or mental, or physical, and that...
Healthy Spirit Part 1 – Living in Unity
When you talk about health, talk about physical, mental, and spiritual health. Spiritual health is most important, because it governs the body and mind. But how do you have a healthy spirit? The idea is to know that there is only one reality, one spirit, one universal...
Sivananda Yoga is Holistic Yoga
So the topic we mentioned this morning, we start to explore this topic this weekend about Holistic Yoga and what that means, ok? So we mentioned about that the equivalent of Holistic Medicine This word I hear from a Dr. the MD of Doctors who is using Yoga for Yoga...
Positive Thinking and Meditation Article
We talked already about the 5 points. Proper exercises or asanas, breathing or pranayama. We talked about relaxation and then we talked about diet. The body is like a vehicle and the proper exercise is like the oiling system of the body all the parts...
Why Do Service and Live in an Ashram?
Enjoy these inspiring, heartfelt responses from applicants to the Yoga Farm Seva Study program: What is Karma Yoga? - I see karma yoga as a way to express gratitude to all people. - The practitioner forgets their finite self through their service for others and the...
27 Yogic Ways to Deal With Stress
Modern Life is full of stress and strains and demands on our system. Stress comes from the inability or difficulty to adapt due to habits, ego, attachments and fears. Stress can also be the result of not having enough Prana (energy) to cope with the demands or...
Karma, Dharma and Sadhana
Karma is your desires that you try to fulfill now in this life. Dharma is the result of your karma that is playing out now. You have to do it until it exhausts itself. Sadhana is one step further – it is creating space. You have to squeeze it in; it is what allows you...
Inner cosmos, outer cosmos: Vedic astrology and our relationship with Nature through the planets
Vedic Astrology teaches us that what we see outside is also within us. By studying the 9 planets we understand our relationship with Nature.
Yoga is a Way of Life
Yoga is a way of life that brings about balance and centeredness. That means you have to apply it in daily life. That is why it is so wonderful that you come to a yoga ashram to learn yoga. Because here you don't just learn yoga only as a system of...
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 Relaxation Techniques for Tension and Emotional Stress
The third point of yoga life is Proper Relaxation. The first is proper exercise how to move the body so you can move your energy to bring yourself to balance. The second point is proper breathing being aware of your breath. There is what is called the savasana posture...
5 Things to Do with our Prana Energy
In order to feel more alive, awake, and peaceful we want to increase prana, conserve prana, channel prana, balance prana, and purify prana.
The Yoga of Selflessness
Selfishness arises from us failing to realize that we gain more from giving than from taking. Our mistaken belief that we are separate from others leads us to behave selfishly. We fail to consider the deep interconnectedness and oneness of all life, and act from the...
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.
10 Ways How to Control Negative Emotions
Today we will talk about positive thinking. Choose from the words written on the board. Which negative emotions would you like to eradicate? Fear, procrastination, tired, anxiety, jealousy, attachment, brooding. I would say fear and anxiety, anxiety is also fear...
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