by swatiyoga | Nov 28, 2011 | Sivananda, Yoga
My first experience of Sivananda yoga was a husband and wife team who taught it in south London. They were pretty good; the husband was into military workouts as well, getting people to do press-ups and sit-ups in the damp grass on Greenwich Park, so the classes were...
by swatiyoga | Nov 24, 2011 | Yoga
My yoga practice up to now has been very classical. When I seriously started practising yoga over 10 years ago, I did astanga yoga, mysore style. This basically means you learn the set number of moves in a sequence (called the primary series) and when you come to...
by swatiyoga | Nov 11, 2011 | Ayurveda
When I was staying in the Sivananda Ashram in Neyyar Dam, Kerala, the ayurvedic doctor there gave me two tubs of a dark sticky jam called chyawanprash. He informed me that the secret of good health was to meditate every day, do yoga every day and take chyawanprash....
by swatiyoga | Nov 10, 2011 | Meditation
I’ve recently finished Paul Wilson’s book The Quiet, which is about meditation. This book is different to other books on meditation that I’ve read in that it gives advice for most forms of meditation. So if you already have a meditation method (which...
