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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...
Ways to Increase Life Force Prana Energy
Swami Sita: Can you tell me which one of your nostrils is working without checking? Satsang students: the right, the left, the right. Swami Sita: Who has both nostrils working? You have to check your nostrils all the time to know how your energy is. When both work...
How to tune to positive thoughts – Satsang with Swami Sita
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...
Journey from Here to Eternity
Ashram as a Spiritual Haven Master Sivananda said that "one ounce of practice equals tons of theory." Swami Vishnudevanandaji not only gives us the teachings but also provides the camp ground to bring everything we learned into practice. He created the Sivananda Yoga...
Sickness and Health Have No Name
Many years ago, I did not know that every activity has its own value in terms of energy taxing the body. I thought seeing God in temples is exempt as it gives you new energy and recharges you. Pilgrimage is seeing God, not only in temples, but in every encounter...
Understanding Proper Exercise according to Sivananda Yoga
Your subtle body translated as Sanskrit mantra, Sanskrit vowels, Sanskrit sound. When you hear the sound you would calm down. It is not like a normal song that you feel good about. This is like a sound therapy. When you say OM that is a Sanskrit sound. All...
Overcoming Distraction And Restlessness
Q. What do I do when my mind is distracted? A. When the mind is distracted, it will bounce randomly from thought to thought and object to object. You will feel restless. Most of the time our minds are like this. The yogic advice in order to bring back focus and peace...
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