I am planning to spend at least one month in India to study and take a TTC, I am interested in both Yoga and Yoga Therapy, any suggestion? Anyone knows or had direct experience at the Yoga Institute in Santa Cruz, Mumbai?
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The festival of Navaratri ("nine nights”) is a worship of the divine mother Durga in several forms. Each night a puja is held, and there is chanting of the Navarna Mantra, "Om aim hreem kleem chaamundaayai viche namah". Durga also helps you to protect your spiritual practice from the distractions and pitfalls that you encounter regularly in worldly life. This link http://www.dlshq.org/religions/navaratri.htm is to Swami Sivananda's explanation of Durga Puja or Navaratri.
There is a new Yoga question site being started up by Swami Atma. It is inthe excellent Q&A system from StackExchange, you can get there fromthis link http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1971/yoga. If you are interested you can go there, log in, becomea follower, and propose questions which would be appropriate and some which are not. This could be a great meeting point for yogis of all traditions around the world.
"Refuge in you, Dark One, you alone know how to save me. A girl possessed, I shamble through the sixty-eight places of pilgrimage but haven't the wit to know failure. Hear my cry, O Murari - nothing on earth looks like it's "mine". Mira gave you her trust, now it's your move. Spring her from this noose we call "world." " ~From "For the Love of the Dark One - Songs of Mirabai", trans. Schelling.
"Why life, why again, and what reason birth as a woman? Good deeds in former lives they say. But- growt
So you can think where you are?
Similarly, sitting with a close eye focussing at a provided point isnot Meditation. Med
“There, having made the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and the senses controlled, let him, seated on the seat, practice Yoga for the purification of the self. "
"Let him firmly hold his body, head and neck erect and still, gazing at the tip of his nose, without looking around.
"Serene-minded, fearless, firm in the vow of a Brahmacha
Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction. Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure. Evenness of mind is called Yoga.
who is the same in cold and heat and in pleasure and pain, who is free
from attachment, He to whom censure and praise are equal, who is
silent, content with anything, homeless, of a steady mind, and full of
devotion - that man is dear to Me. They verily who follow this immortal
Dharma as described above, endowed with faith, regarding Me as their
supreme goal, they, the devotees, are exceedingly dear to Me."
Mantra Audio: Hari hari Bol, chanted by Narayani in Yoga Vidya Ashram Germany. A Mantra in praise of Vishnu and Krishna.
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So, whatever the things are, is yours even my deeds, prana, soul, body,thoughts every things are yours are offered to you only. There isnothing min
Lately I have been reading "Vivekananda - A Biography" by Swami Nikhilananda. It's a really good book, and if you are interested in knowing about the great yogi and sannyasin Swami Vivekananda and how he did a lot to bring eastern thinking and vedanta to America, this is the book for you.
I especially like this quote from the book which is a story about an event that happened with Swami Vivekananda and which I think demonstrates the detachment of a true sannyasin's mind:
"He [Swami Vivekananda] w
samadhi is the formula of application..any application. all type.. either physical #adhibhauthic, spiritual #adhiyatmic or natural #adhidaivic.
samadhi's physical state could varies as per its nature of form physical, spiritual or natural n there ratio of formation.
sanyam is its orientation in life.
so samadhi sanyam is getting the clue or answer of problem of life through the formula/samadhi. and then applying in life through sanyam.
this is the most result orienting applica
("The Miraculous Draft of Fishes" - Author Unknown - photography by TTaylor)
"Asking For A Miracle" is a short instrumental piece arranged for acoustic instruments, and written in a time of dire need.
While working on it, I recalled a tarot reading I gave to the fiancée of my sole nephew, sometime after she had lost her first unborn baby. Although she never voiced her question, I felt that she was hoping to try to give birth again. The cards clearly told that the possibility was there despite what
