According to the leading authority, Georg Feuerstein, PhD, Hatha Yoga is a medieval development, with its aim of cultivating an “adamantine body”. The goal of creating such a body is to prepare it for the very serious business of enlightenment. He puts it well when he says “… the...
This is a branch of yoga established in the West by its now deceased leader, Yogi Bhajan. This can be viewed as a form of Bhakti (devotional) Yoga. Yogi Bhajan emigrated to the USA in 1968 and set up the Healthy, Happy and Holy Orginization (3HO). Essentially it is...
Is it a blog when you simple quote two people who say what you want to say more eloquently that you ever could yourself? “All of western medicine is built on getting rid of pain, which is not the same thing as healing. Healing is actually the capacity to...
B.K.S. Iyengar did much to popularise Yoga in the west. A student of Krishnamacharya, his brother-in-law, he came to the west in the 1950s and did much to popularise yoga as exercise. He was a great friend of the celebrated violinist Yehudi Menuhin and taught Vanda Scaravelli, among others....
Aerial Flow Yoga is for all those people who wish they could fly. I have studied aerial flow with Ilonka Miklosi with the past several years. Also know as anti-gravity yoga, it consists of letting the material of the yoga hammock take your weight, so you fly into asana...