Meditation: from the monastery to Sillicon Valley
If you are reading this blog, you probably don’t need me to tell you that meditation is good for you. Everyone from Silicon Valley to Trappist monks are telling us that! A 2017 NHIS study showed increases in adults and children practicing meditation between 2012 and...
Vijnanamaya kosha: Know thyself and thy Self.
I love to read about yoga. It is a good thing, too, because it is kinda important considering I’m a yoga teacher! When I first began studying yoga, one of the things I noticed was that sometimes the word “yoga” was spelled with a lowercase “y” and sometimes it was...
Why exactly are we here anyways? Prakriti, Purusha, and the yogic perspective….
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real? – Albus Dumbledore Yoga means “to yoke” or “to unite”. By its very nature, yoga is what we call a non-dualistic practice. Non-dualism in a nutshell (a very large...
Shiva and his warrior-friend: the story of Virabhadra.
In the west, most of us begin our journey as yoga practitioners through the physical practice of the asana. The Yoga Sutras, the oldest known collection of writings we have about yoga, has very little to say about asana practice. However, what it does say is...
Hatha Yoga and Beltane: the coming together of the masculine and feminine.
What are we uniting when we practice hatha yoga? One of the first things we learn in Eternal Health Yoga’s primary teacher training program is the meaning of the words “hatha yoga”. Far more than the name of a class, these words indicate the very essence of our...
