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BOOK: Yoga for Better Sleep
Mark Stephens, author of Teaching Yoga, Yoga Therapy, and other titles, has taken on sleep—or lack of it! A reformed insomniac, Stephens now gets a full 8 hours of restorative sleep a night and shares how to do just that in his new book, Yoga for Better Sleep....
Savasana for the Yogis who Can’t Sit Still
Savasana (or Corpse pose) is well-known for being the most important pose in our Yoga practice. It is the moment when all the physical hard work of class can seep into our muscles and bones, our body can melt into the floor, and we can finally do nothing but breathe....
Finding the Balance Within
If you want to love all, serve all, and spread peace you first have to learn to love yourself. You also have to find peace within yourself. If you recognize the peace and joy within, then you will be able to give the same to everyone else. And you are not actually...
The Road to Woodstock & Beyond – IY eMagazine 153
The Benefits of Lineage
Swami Satchidananda often explained that the easiest way to learn to master something is to train with an expert in one’s chosen field. All fields of training and learning come down to a succession of those who master the material—whether its mechanics, doctors,...
Divine Sound, Indigenous Wisdom, Yoga & Buddhism – IY eMagazine 152
On the Woodstock Anniversary, a Robust Namaste to “The Woodstock Guru”
In case it somehow escaped you, we’re in the midst of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the event that came to define the 1960s counterculture, the Woodstock Festival. Watch for aging hippies waxing nostalgic about those three magical days, whether they were there...
The Divine Sound Within
Your practice of mantra repetition creates a sort of sound within. The sound is already in you. You are not doing anything new. That is the divine within you in the form of sound: namarupa, in Sanskrit. The Bible says that in the beginning there was the Word. That...
Kriya Yoga, Forgiveness, Secret of Fulfillment – IY eMagazine 151
How to Experience Joy in Life and Love Passionately
How can you experience joy in life and love passionately if you are practicing non-attachment? The best way to enjoy life, if you really want to enjoy life, is not to have any attachment to anything. Attachment never brings you permanent joy. It may begin with a...