Can you touch your toes? Can you touch your toes without experiencing back pain, neck pain or pain in the knees? Can you touch your knuckles to your toes? Can you touch your wrist to your toes and place palms flat on the floor? Can you touch your elbows to your toes? Can you go …
How Yoga Changes Our Body
A yoga sequence typically involves: weight bearing exercises stretching with bending and twisting and balancing asanas While performing yoga, being aware of your posture and breathing are equally important. Making yoga a habit and fitting it into a daily routine can be challenging for a lazy person like me. So if I am not able …
The Mindset Of Cleanliness
Cleanliness won't become a habit unless it is firmly established as a mindset. Keep your mind, body and spirit clean and you will experience the greatest riches of life. Did you know that being clean attracts wealth. Now that should be some motivation! Without cleanliness we are not truly living but just existing, getting old, …
Cleanliness Part I – Banish Constipation
Cleanliness is my religion. I hear people striving for habits like healthy eating, clean diet and regular exercise but how many of us pay attention to the daily body function of waste release? If I don't poop in the day I get stressed out. If I don't go for two days, I start panicking. Our …
Papaya For Constipation
Constipation is the mother of all diseases. When you are constipated, you are withholding harmful toxins that not only damage your body but also cause bloating and weight gain. I have struggled with constipation since childhood and I continue to get constipated once in a while. But it is no more a struggle getting myself …
Difficulties In Meditation Made Easy
Why is it difficult to meditate? I've heard many people tell me that there are too many thoughts in their head and it is impossible to control them. But control is not what meditation is about. Then there are people who tell me that they are too restless, they just cannot keep still, or, their …
What is Happiness?
I once asked a counselor "what is happiness?" and he told me that we humans are essentially spiritual beings, happiness is found and can be experienced only in the spirit. I thought to myself, what kind of mambo jambo is that, coming from a man of science. I took up yoga in my quest for …
Water On An Empty Stomach
If you were to study our digestive system, you would realize that water has little to do with the stomach and more to do with the large intestine. Water stays in the stomach for less than 5 minutes after which it goes through the small intestine where some of it is absorbed into the blood …
Balancing The Elements In Sthitaprarthanasana
When I was pursuing the first level of the teacher's training program, the person who inspired me the most was not a teacher but a fellow student, Alina. She would meditate in Sthitaprarthanasana or the standing prayer pose and I would wonder why she practiced this simple posture so often. I found it quite bizarre, …
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Karma Strikes Back – A True Story
I was standing on my balcony one day when karma demonstrated a lesson within ten minutes. It was Makar Sankranti and I was observing the kites in the sky. The day was pleasant and breezy. Besides flying kites, children on this day took great pleasure in kite collecting, chasing cut kites that fell from the …
The Yoga Student 