Pincha means feather. Mayura means peacock. Asana means “seat” or body posture. Put it all together and you get: Feathered Peacock Pose aka Forearm Balance and it is our focus this week. There is a Japanese word : SAT, that a theater director defined as the moment right before a performer walks on stage, when …
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FOCUS OF THE WEEK: ASANA APRIL 7 / 14
In one of the Yoga Sutras, master Patanjali states that asana is perfect firmness of the body, steadiness of intelligence and benevolence of spirit. Simply put, asana is designed to improve body mind and spirit, a concept which is revealed to us fairly quickly even after we have practiced yoga as little as once or …
FOCUS OF THE WEEK * ASTEYA (FEB 10-14)
This week we focus on Non-Stealing or Asteya. Yama is the first stepping stone of the Yoga practice and Asteya is the third of the Yamas. We all tend to think of ourselves as honest people with a common understanding of the word stealing, as in “taking that which is not ours”. I hate to …
FOCUS OF THE WEEK – THE GUNAS (JAN 13-14)
Let’s face it. They say You are not your body, you are not your mind. So very true…..but what they fail to say is we are actually but a bundle of emotions and a pile of hormones; which take over the moment we are born and start dictating our very moods and behaviors. I have always …
FOCUS OF THE WEEK (JAN 6/14)
DET-OXY CLEAN by Danielle Abisaab Where do I start? The very beginning would be appropriate. Would it be pushing it if I backtracked all the way to 2008? When I first discovered The Life-co center in Bodrum Turkey, I had set out on a journey to detoxify from the accumulated rubbish having taken over my …
FOCUS OF THE WEEK: MEDITATION (DEC 16-13)
Illustration by Danielle Abisaab Have you taken your medi-tation today? I tend to walk away from generalizations but I think you will agree with me on the following observation; we live in a desperately hasty society mainly comprised of individuals seeking distractions to busy themselves in, trying to fill every spare moment with decibels …
FOCUS OF THE WEEK: STRESS MANAGEMENT II (DEC 9-13)
I think it is safe to say that life is more difficult than not, don’t you think? It can be like a swirling cyclone sometimes, but the one thing we need to remind ourselves is that it is only so on the surface. Just as on the surface of the ocean there are waves, storms, …
CHANT OF THE WEEK (DEC 9 – 13)
SAMATVAM YOGA USHYATE – Baghavad Gita 2.48 Samatvam = Equanimity / Yoga = Union / Ushyate = Resides, lives When you are steadfast in your yoga practice, and able to abandon all attachment to success or failure, this equanimity of mind is called yoga. We can all use more balance these days and just like …
FOCUS OF THE WEEK: STRESS MANAGEMENT (DEC 2-13)
One thing you can bring more of in your life right now is the focus on the breath as it is the direct line to your emotional body. One of the fundamental perspectives in yoga is we are multi-dimentional beings, we are not just physical beings, we are breath, mind, senses, we have emotions, we …
FOCUS OF THE WEEK GRATITUDE (NOV 25 – 13)
Human beings seem hard-wired to notice what goes wrong more often than what goes right, with a strong inclination for the negative rather than the positive. Time to wake up to the following fact: every time we limit our attention to how life goes south, we deny ourselves the variety of gifts we are receiving. …