Posts Tagged ‘techniques’

"Standing straight on the left leg, bend the right leg and place the right foot on the root of the left thigh. Stand thus like a tree on the ground. This is called vriksha-asana." 1 Stand with the feet together and the arms by your sides (see the tad-asana).   2 Bend the right leg at the ... Full story

There are many types of yoga practices that you can venture into or try. Most are relatively simple to begin and enjoy the benefits of. However, there are also styles of yoga that may be too challenging, and potentially harmful for beginners to try. And the sizzling Bikram yoga belongs to the latter. So you ... Full story

The Sanskrit word eka means one and pada means foot making this the one-foot, or more commonly, one-legged pose. 1 Stand with the feet together and the arms by your sides (see the tad-asana).   2 Focus the eyes straight ahead on a spot midway between waist and eye level and remain focused there throughout this asana. (standing ... Full story

The Sanskrit word padma means lotus. Besides the obvious reference to the similarity of the folded legs to lotus petals, the lotus hold special significance in reference to Yoga and Meditation. Though rooted in the mud, the lotus blossom rises above to blossom in the sun. Although it grows in pools of water the leaves ... Full story

The Sanskrit word simha, which literally means "the powerful one," is the word for "lion." This, therefore is known as the lion posture, and one performing it can be said to resemble a roaring lion about to attack. 1 Sit up on the knees with the heels of the feet pressed against the buttocks and the ... Full story

1 Lie on the stomach with the head turned to one side and the arms alongside the body with palms facing upward.   2 Turn the head and place your chin on the floor. Slide your hands under your thighs, with the palms pressed gently against the top of your thighs.   3 Inhale slowly and then raise the ... Full story

Meditation can be described as a continued, unbroken awareness of the mind in its raw state. It involves the overcoming of distractions and dissipated energies into a blissful awareness. Let us look at it this way - at any point of time we are consumed with countless thoughts and emotional baggage at the conscious and subconscious level. This prevents us from experiences true, uninhibited bliss. Bliss will result from an expanded awareness of the happenings without any attachments and bondages whatsoever. What meditation does: Meditation helps us overcome our manifold desires and distractions. It does so NOT by curbing desires - which will always be there - but by rendering them inconsequential in front of an unbroken and larger desire of existence. The more we can hold onto the memory of the meditation practice, the easier it is to pull yourself back from the endless desires. Meditation teaches us to be a 'witness'. While we are meditating, we are detached and enjoying the moment. But the moment we finish, we lose it and return to our distracted state. So, we need to develop a meditative lifestyle. This lifestyle will help us observe and understand why we oscillate between the calm meditative state and our daily state of mind. We then understand what patterns of our lifestyle disturb our calm, blissful state. Full story