...Yet, learning to relax is anything, but simple. For example: New Yoga students are sometimes uncomfortable while practicing stage-by-stage relaxation or Yogic body-scan relaxation techniques. How can this be?

Relaxation techniques are usually much easier to learn than meditation. The most common reason for a Yoga student to be uncomfortable with sitting, or lying down, is an underlying fear of getting to know him or herself.

When you make the time to get to know yourself, this is time well spent, but many people, who do not practice rel...more

Dangers of Kundalini Yoga

... to offer infinite Peace, infinite Bliss, infinite light that way. No matter how many miracles we show, the person who sees them will be pleased for only five minutes and then he will be jealous because he does not have this power.

There is a danger in kundalini yoga we will waste our time. There is a good traditional indian story, which helps illustrate this point. There were 2 brothers who were practicing the spiritual life. One brother decided he would go away to practice severe austerities so he may be able to gain his kundalini powers. After 12 years of intense practice he came back to his village. He wanted to show his brother his newly gained powers so he walked across the water on a river. His brother simply paid a boatman 1 rupee and joined his brother on the other side. On getting to the other bank the brother said. Why have you wasted 12 years to do something which I can do for just 1 rupee.? The other brother realised he had been foolish and not made ...more

The Yoga Diet - Explaining Rajasic and Sattvic

...its and nourish the body. Sattvic foods keep the body balanced and are the most thoroughly absorbed and incorporated.

Impure, highly processed, and synthetic foods, not only isolate the nourishing benefits of foods - they also cause imbalanced conditions. These conditions cause discomfort, obesity, and disease. Most diseases are linked to diet in a major way. Seek to create balance in your body through your diet.

Any change in diet is difficult because it is a lifestyle change. Lifestyle changes are the only wa...more

An Objective View of Yoga

...ethods.

Yoga teachers spread the word, but they must teach the more popular physical aspects of Yoga, if they want to keep their students. This is why many people get an incomplete picture of a complete health maintenance system for the three aspects of mind, body, and spirit. All three aspects of health are of equal importance, but the physical aspect is more easily realized.

Whether you are a beginner, long-time Yoga practitioner, or a Yoga teacher, your knowledge will make a difference for the best. Just by showing loving kindness and mindfulness to your friends, co-worker...more

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