by admin on October 10, 2008
Knowlewdge Net
October 10 , 2008
Thousands of students flock to the Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India each year in hopes of finding that missing piece to life’s puzzle. The Institute’s style of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga is particularly attractive to Westerners because they enjoy the physical rigor and discipline. While many forms of yoga are more about relaxing, this style is more about physically challenging poses that evoke mental release. Some people say the method attracts the “overachiever” personality type, but in reality it caters to people of every level.
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga was first brought to the Western world by the teachings of Patanjali Maharishi, a sage from Mysore India. He spoke about the significance of reaching internal purification and reconnecting with the “Universal Soul” through eight principles: moral codes, self-purification and study, posture, breath control, sense control, concentration, meditation and contemplation. He believed that each step built upon one another, much in the same way each posture (or “asana”) builds upon the next. Read more…
by admin on September 23, 2008
Today’s Zaman
Urban Beat
September 24, 2008
Where is home? For yoga instructor Dylan Bernstein, “Home is in my yoga practice.” He explains: “When I roll out a mat, I feel really grounded, I feel really centered and at home. I guess home is an internal place.”
Bernstein, who teaches Ashtanga yoga at Yoga Sala in Nişantaşı (www.yogasala.com), has been practicing yoga in Asia and Europe since 2001. Always interested in world religions, especially Zen Buddhist philosophy, Bernstein started yoga when he was a boy of 13 in, in the US. In 2001 he left his 10-year career in childhood education and moved to Vietnam. He moved to India in 2004 and studied Ashtanga yoga with Vijay Amaran in Dharamsala (in northern India). Read more…
by admin on August 19, 2008
Simple Solutions: Yoga Decoder
Tamara Schlesinger
Real Simple Magazine
Journal Gazette, August 18, 2008
Find the yoga class that fits you best, with help from the editors of Real Simple magazine:
Ashtanga
What it is : Ashtanga is one of the more physically challenging forms of yoga. Classes go through a sequence of as few as 25 poses (also called asanas) that include back bends, inversions (think headstands and handstands), balances and twists.
Degree of difficulty : Expect an invigorating workout. This style of yoga builds strength, stamina and flexibility. Even beginner classes can be challenging.
Who it’s best for : Athletic types who want a high-energy workout, as well as those who appreciate predictability and order. Continue reading…
by admin on August 13, 2008
The Huffington Post – Life Cycle
by Simran Sethi
August 12, 2008
It’s the end of class. You’re breathing deeply, surrendering the weight of your body into your yoga mat. Breathing in…and out. Letting yourself go.
Who doesn’t feel better after a yoga class? Yoga is the union of the body, mind and spirit. It stabilizes the nervous system, decreases blood pressure, increases flexibility and endurance, and opens you up in ways that you may not have imagined.
Simran used to be a yoga teacher. She loves the practice even though she hasn’t spent much time on her mat lately. (”Yoga on the inside, baby!”) Sarah gets her yoga on every week and knows it does her body good. Read more…
by admin on August 7, 2008
On the Way to Yoga District
NewIndPress.com
August 8, 2008
by Malvika Tegta
Fiery red gulmohars, against the grey overhung monsoon clouds, line the gently sloping crisscrossed asphalt of Gokulam. This plexus of mains and crosses, weaves into it the tin chai stand, a ramshackled mom ‘n’ pop store, an improvised coconut water shed and old red floored homes with the same indifference as a Nilgiri’s supermarket, family-run cafes and posh dulpex apartments that have sprung up in recent years.
One of these lanes in this upmarket ‘Yoga district’ leads you to Bharath Shetty’s Yoga India, a small Hatha yoga studio. A room in styled in Madhubani pop art, or Ganeshas in psychedelic shades, caters to mostly western Yoga enthusiasts and Bharath’s is only one of the 60 odd yoga centres that have come up in Mysore. Continue reading this article…
by admin on August 3, 2008
One Breathe At A Time
by Kino MacGregor, Miami Life Center
Yoga Magazine, June 2008
This year’s political season highlights some of the most monumental hopes and pitfalls of the past century. As we turn the door on a new administration we must also ask ourselves again where the realization of the dream of peace on Earth is really to be found if it is to be more than just a dream after all is said and done. We know now that the ultimate resolution of the seemingly eternal problems of humanity is not to be found in a battle between nations fought with weapons of mass destruction, nor in a war of words among politicians, nor in the battle of the sexes. So where and to whom do we turn to answer the most difficult questions of our lives? [click to continue...]
