The Purpose of Yoga: Finding Yourself
Some people claim to find themselves after practicing Yoga faithfully – but how can this be? Yoga is an art of living. In fact, Yoga is a…
New Year’s Resolutions and Yoga
All in all, yoga is a tool for helping those many people in our society who might struggle with keeping with their well intentioned New Years’ Resolutions – or those made and attempted at any time of the year. Yoga instructors can be powerful facilitators in those processes through knowledgeable instruction appropriately tailored to each individual student’s needs and abilities.
Is Yoga Teacher Training Worth It?
Yoga instructor training is a small step through a gateway and a life-long journey of self-acceptance and empowerment. What you learn…
Yoga Practice for Empowerment
The benefits of Yoga practice are obvious to those who have a firm commitment to take positive action. The difference between empowerment, and failure, is that successful people never give up. Yoga is a mechanism by which practitioners gain mastery over their lives.
The Purpose of Yoga: Problem Solving Skills
One of the methods we demonstrate during Yoga teacher training courses is to write the problems and possible solutions down on paper…
Yoga for Self-Empowerment
Yoga is a great tool for self-empowerment. The word Yoga actually means union with the divine. The beauty and empowering part of Yoga…
Practicing Yoga For Inner Peace
Practicing Yoga can prepare one for many challenging situations in life. That it can be difficult to get along with everyone you meet goes without…
How to Develop Self-Esteem Through Yoga
During Yoga teacher training sessions, I have found that compiling lists allow interns to be impartial. We can classify our traits and…
Increase Happiness with Yoga
By Bhavan Kumar How can you increase happiness with yoga? Since yoga moved onto the world stage, asana, pranayama, meditation and other Yogic stress-reduction exercises have been studied as possible alternative treatments for mood-related disorders. However, the body of literature on the therapeutic benefits of yoga was rather limited until the Internet propelled it forward. …
How does Yoga Build Self-Acceptance?
Based on the advice from the 14th century author of “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” we aren’t the only civilization to think too much. In his teachings, he says: “Abandon all thoughts, then don’t think of anything.”