पश्चिमी पोस्टरल योग: योग के नाम पर मुद्राओं को बढ़ावा
योग अनिवार्य रूप से हठ योग, पोस्टरल योग अभ्यास और तकनीकों, आसन-आधारित कक्षाओं से कहीं More...
Yogacharya T. Krishnamacharya: A Man Extraordinaire
Most of us find solace in simply hearing or reading stories of the lives of extraordinary people, but people like Raghu Ananthanarayanan really had the good fortune to not only know but to have studied under the More...
Immersion as a Metaphorical Tirthayatra
We go on a tirthayatra to help us turn inwards and let a higher energy flow inside us to heal us. Similarly for me, laboratory learning processes are nothing but an immersion into the depths of the human psyche More...
Yogic response to sexual violation
Just a few months back we saw the explosive ‘Me-too’ movement that came out in the open to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in the workspace all over the world. There were More...
Samanya Dharma and Spirituality
Hindu dharma speaks about four fold goals of human life termed as “chaturvidha purushArtha”. “Purusha” means human and “artha” means object or goal. This framework of life wherein each human being has More...
Yoga as the Colonized Subject
Within the serene, spare yoga studios across Europe and America, Yoga has become so assimilated into everyday language and activity, that to the predominantly Caucasian practitioners, the idea that violence and More...
Granthis: The Psychic Knots and its depiction in sculptures
The temple complexes of India are adorned with sculptures of several themes related to social, political, cultural history incorporating the heritage values of vedas, yoga shastra, puranas epics, etc. Some sculptures More...
Yoga as a prelude to Svadhyaya in sculptures
The apsara sculpture of the Belur Chennakeshava temple depicts a divyangana explaining the scriptures. The two figures of Jalasanghi and Chinchanasur at Bidar district show a woman writing a letter on a plank. The More...
Why is there a fear of Yoga?
This Tweet set me wondering. I did some research. Sure, there are many varieties of Yoga out there. Hot Yoga students do Yoga in hot humid conditions. If you don’t care for that, there’s Beer Yoga which is done More...
Vedic Origins of Yoga: Shvetasvatara, the Vedic Yoga Upanishad
[contextly_sidebar id=”W0wAHjx4633E2jb5Qkc7QggM0W4oMS6L”] In order to provide a better sense of how the Vedic Yoga relates to later classical Yoga, let us look to one of the most important older Upanishads, More...