by swatiyoga | Mar 29, 2015 | Ashram, Meditation, Yoga, Yoga Philosopy
Reading spiritual texts is an important part of yoga spiritual practice. Svadhyaya, study of both the self and the scriptures, is one of the niyamas or virtuous habits. The Niyamas are the second of the eight limbs of yoga as described by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras....
by swatiyoga | Dec 22, 2014 | Ashram, Yoga
Yoga postures are not just about moving limbs and coordinating breath. Subtler dimensions exist like the chakras (energy points), nadis (energy lines) and koshas (different bodily layers). The course I did at the Mandala Ashram Wales, Embodying Insight, emphasised...
by swatiyoga | Dec 21, 2014 | Ashram, Yoga
I can get angry. I don’t lash out; it’s a quiet anger. I feel the heat rise to my face and feelings of frustration well up in me. When I was at the Mandala ashram in Wales, run by disciples of Swami Satyananda, I asked Swami Krishnapremananda for advice....
by swatiyoga | May 26, 2014 | Sivananda, Teaching Yoga, Yoga
I went to a yoga workshop at the London Sivananda Centre on the Alexander Technique and Sivananda Yoga, given by Sita from the Hamburg centre. I’ve always been a bit over-awed by Sita. She’s a slim blonde with an impressive bone structure; her manner is compassionate,...
by swatiyoga | Mar 16, 2014 | Sivananda, Yoga Philosopy
Just before Christmas, I went to the Sivananda Chateau near Orleans to do a course in Yoga and Psychology with Dr Uma Krishnamurthi. Uma was brought up in a household steeped in Hindu philosophy and spent her free time travelling to listen to gurus such as Jiddhu...
