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Continue reading →: Yoga & Qigong: Contrasts & Complementarity, Part OneToday’s topic at “The Living Yoga Blog” comes from one of our readers, who asks: “Along with yoga, I see that you also practice and teach qigong. Could you share a bit about how the two compare for you, as well as the benefits you experience from practicing both?” As you may know, qigong and yoga have a great deal in common – they are both powerful traditions for improving health, and they both place…
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Continue reading →: The Four Ashramas: The Yogic Stages of Life & What They Can Teach UsOf the many challenges in today’s world, one that is often overlooked is the lack of clear flow we can experience as we move between the various stages of our lives. From childhood to our final years, we often feel unsettled or unfulfilled, in part because we are unsure of our responsibilities as they relate to our current stage of life and our role relative to those around us. For example, we know that today’s children…
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Continue reading →: Enlightenment: What It Is & Why You Really Should Think About It (Part Two)In our previous article, we explored some of the ways enlightenment has been described in order to help those of us on the Yogic path better understand the goal toward which we are heading. In today’s article, I’d like to share some thoughts on why this understanding is so valuable…
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Continue reading →: Enlightenment: What It Is & Why You Really Should Think About It… (Part 1)If you’re like most practitioners of yoga, you probably think of enlightenment as a distant ideal that only applies to advanced practitioners. And yet, numerous Yoga masters have encouraged their students – even novices and those with worldly responsibilities – to understand enlightenment and to keep it before them, as…
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Continue reading →: Understanding What Yoga Isn’t: Clarifications from Classic Texts & Modern SagesThroughout its history, there has been a fair amount of confusion as to what yoga is. It can be helpful for modern students to know this confusion is far from new, and that yoga has often been misunderstood both in the West and the East, and by outsiders as well…
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Continue reading →: The Koshas: Understanding the Yogic View of the Mind-Body Connection – Part 2In last week’s article, we began our exploration of the koshas, or the layers of the human body and consciousness. In today’s article, we’ll take a look at each of the five layers in more detail, including how they impact one another and how a deeper understanding of each can…
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Continue reading →: The Koshas: Understanding the Yogic View of the Mind-Body Connection – Part 1Most regular students of yoga are already familiar with concept of prana, or the vital energy of the body, but may notunderstand exactly how it relates to the other elements of our bodies, as well as our thoughts and feelings. In today’s article, we’ll take a closer look at what…
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Continue reading →: Is Yoga Appropriate for All Faiths? – Understanding the Pros & ConsSince its arrival in the west, a frequent question about Yoga has been whether it’s appropriate for those of other faiths. Many believe Yoga does not belong in schools since, in their perspective, it is a religious practice, and there are those who feel should not be practiced at all by those of their faith because it is, to their understanding, antithetical to their beliefs. On the other side of the issue, practitioners of Yoga generally feel Yoga is…
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Continue reading →: The Kleshas in Detail: Abhinivesa or FearThis week at “The Living Yoga Blog” we conclude our exploration of the five kleshas or obstacles to realizing our inherent peace with a more detailed look at abhinivesa or fear. We’ll look at the various and perhaps unexpected forms fear can take, how it distorts our worldview and causes distress, and the ways we can use awareness of abhinivesa to reduce our tendency to fall into misunderstanding and the suffering it causes. The Grounds of Fear Again, the first thing to understand about…
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Continue reading →: The Kleshas in Detail: Dvesha or AversionThis week at “The Living Yoga Blog” we continue our exploration of the five kleshas – the obstacles to realizing our inherent peace – with a more detailed look at dvesha or aversion. We’ll look at the various and perhaps unexpected forms aversion can take, how it distorts our worldview and causes distress, and the ways we can use awareness of dvesha to reduce our tendency to fall into misunderstanding and the suffering it causes. Defining Dvesha Beginning again with Patanjali, much like attachment he defines aversion as: “Identification with what…
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