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 …
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 …
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 …
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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