It may seem strange to name a yoga pose after a warrior; after all, aren’t yogis known for their non-violent ways? But remember that one of the most revered of all the yoga texts, the Bhagavad Gita, is the dialog between two famous and feared warriors, Krishna and Arjuna, set on ...
Bhagavadgeeta: The Indian treatise on mental health care and promotion Bhagavadgeeta, popularly known as Gita, is the advice The Lord gives to his disciple. Arjuna is the disciple and Krishna is The Lord. This is timed to have occurred about 5000 years ago. The context is a great war bet...
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Gradually, I swung the other way. Instead of preparing for a class, I’d grab a few manuals off the shelf before I headed out the door to the yoga studio. Occasionally, I wouldn’t pick a yoga set to teach until I had already started my students on warm-ups. This way of nonplanni...
One of the major findings in last 50 years has been what people had suspected all along: human thinking and judgment often isn’t rational. By this, I mean given a situation where someone has to make a decision, she will often take a decision that “leaps” to her immediately rather tak...
Brahmanism is one of the oldest religions in India and has influenced every other religion that developed there. Brahmanism was associated with the highest caste of Indian society, and it involved Brahmans chanting indecipherable praises to Brahman, their god. In part, the action of chanting was ...
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Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses. —Alan Valentine 10 The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and ...
The Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita praised yoga as an important spiritual element, but the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, written sometime in the second century B.C., provided the first real how-to text. The scholar Patanjali wrote that there are eight limbs, or steps, of yoga: Yama refers to ...
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