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  1. Basic Yoga FAQs: Harnessing the Power of Yoga for Health and Wellness

    Guest writer, Brett Larkin, Founder & CEO of Uplifted Yoga, believes that yoga should be a way of life. She says that “You’ll be surprised at how it can foster your health and well-being and improve the quality of your life.” She continues, "I� ...
  2. 13 Benefits of Surya Namaskar

    For centuries, people from all civilizations have offered prayers to the sun – the ultimate source of life and energy. One such practice is the yogic sequence of Surya Namaskar. Let’s get to know the importance and benefits of Surya Namaskar for a healthy ...
  3. Yoga for a broken heart: poses, pranayama, and a guided meditation

    Everybody goes through a heartbreak. The pain, the tears, and the sadness that a heartbreak accompanies are universal phenomena. And while we may be spending sufficient time tending to our face, digestion, and other organs in the body, we often forget to ...
  4. Yoga for kids

    Teaching yoga to kids is a uniquely wonderful way to guiding them into a healthy lifestyle. From a young age, they should be taught how to calm the mind and become more emotionally stable. Kids go through a lot of physical exertion; yoga helps them calm d ...
  5. Discover how to feel energetic every day with yoga

    There are many quick ways to boost our energy levels when we are down. Did you know that when you are low on energy, you have more negative thoughts? And too many thoughts drain your energy and tire you mentally. Here are six easy and simple tips to help ...
  6. 5 Golden qualities of an Olympic champion with Gurudev’s pearls of wisdom

    Will it, won’t it? Japan and the world were left guessing for over a year about the fate of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. But, when it did, despite the empty seats and subsequent muted hooting and hoopla, hundreds of millions felt the pulse of the (normally) q ...
  7. What kind of a yogi are you?

          The perfect yogi You are right there! Nothing can shake your peace of mind. Do you want to help others gain that too? Become a yoga teacher!     The quite-there-yogi You are reaching towards the goal steadily but surely. Get into the deeper dimensio ...
  8. The five yamās of Patañjali

    What are the yamās?   ahiṁsā satya asteya brahmacarya aparigrahāḥ yamāḥ॥30॥ अहिंसासत्यास्तेयब्रह्मचर्यापरिग्रहा यमाः ॥३०॥   Non-violence, truth, non-stealing, moving in the Brahman, non-accumulation are the five yamās. - Patañjali Yoga Sutra 2.30    jātid ...
  9. What is aparigraha?

    Contd. from knowledge sheet 70 aparigrahasthairye janmakathaṅtāsaṁbodhaḥ ॥39॥ अपरिग्रहस्थैर्ये जन्मकथंतासंबोधः ॥३९॥ Being established in non-accumulation, there arises the knowledge of the past and future incarnations.- Patañjali Yoga Sutra 2.39 Non-accep ...
  10. Brahmacharya and its benefits

    brahmacaryapratiṣṭhāyāṁ vīryalābhaḥ ॥38॥ ब्रह्मचर्यप्रतिष्ठायां वीर्यलाभः ॥३८॥ Moving in the Brahman, in infinity, gives great strength and capacity.                                                                                   - Patañjali Yoga Sutra ...