...nas for the job of resolving and doubting; buddhi for the decision and judgment; asmita for the consciousness of its individual existence and chita for remembering the previous experiences. Mind is a vast collection of thoughts and traces of the past experiences. When you are born, your mind is the collection of samskaras collected over the previous births. Those samskaras, whose fruits have already been enjoyed have been wiped out. But as you grow up, new samskaras are being added continuously due to various acts performed by you from birth to death. This translates into the law of karma which states that the events one faces in his life are the results of the activities done by him in the past and his mind at birth contains the samskaras from his p...more

Teaching Hatha yoga: Private lessons

... with local yoga teachers, and personal trainers; many of them will be happy to help you.

If personal trainers, with similar experience, are charging more than you, your rates are usually too low. Why? Some personal trainers might graduate from a 200 to 500 hour certification course; but many do not, unless they have a bachelors degree in physical education, which is more experience than most yoga teachers.

Most yoga instructors graduate from a 200 to 500 hour yoga instructor training program. The hours of study involved to become a yoga teacher deserves a similar private session rate, if the working experience is similar to a personal trainer.

How do you avoid yoga students, who make appointments and do not show up for scheduled private yoga session? You should have a firm 24 hour cancellation policy in place. yoga stude...more

Using yoga To Improve Your Health And Save Your Time

... when thoughts cease to exist.

yoga asana or postures depict natural actions like boating or rowing to the posture a peacock assumes, a lion assumes etc. these postures, along with breathing in and out are known to create certain vibrations in your body, that bring out the overall vitality of the spirit.

The famous Surya Namaskar or salutations to the Sun-the giver of light, energy, warmth, wisdom and the sustainer of Life on Earth, is supposed to be refreshing, rejuvenating, bringing instant nimbleness to tense muscles, thus enabling us to kick start the day! From the head to the toe, including the spinal cord, the arms and legs, are flexed. Surya Na...more

yoga sutras of patanjali - An Historical Text

...da can be translated power. The roles of the sutras in this particular book are to describe and help the yogi to achieve full awareness through yoga. It is essentially about attaining higher levels of awareness of one's self.

Finally, the Kaivalya Pada means, again in Sanskrit, isolation. What this book is really about, though, is achieving liberation, according to the principles set within it. yoga teaches to concentrate on self and attaining higher levels of consciousness, and this book uses 34 sutras to pursue this idea.

The yoga sutras of patanjali are a staple for many, and describe the ideas upon which the yoga tradition has passed through more recent (from the 2nd century BC), history.

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