Just returned from my third Vipassana silent meditation sitting, and want to unload my experience...

It is hard for anyone to come to terms with this phrase, "I am not this body, I am not this mind....

  A yoga class usually opens and ends with the chanting of "OM" (ॐ). What is OM and why do we...

[1.3] tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe'vasthānam “When that is accomplished, the seer abides in its own...

Why physical practice is not the goal of Yoga. Yoga is an ancient word that has been found in...

Ask anyone what the goal of yoga is, and very likely someone would say, to stretch and to relax....

I teach and practise Sivananda Yoga. It is a form of Hatha Yoga that is slow, meditative and...

  In a typical Sivananda Yoga asana class, we begin with a kriya (cleansing) and a pranayama ...

Without the breath, there's no Yoga*. Way before any neuroscience, the ancient yogis have found...

One of the first things I teach to a student new to yoga is how to breathe. It may seem funny...

Last year I had the opportunity to give private classes to a mother and her teenage son. It was...

The fullness and completeness of our true nature is obscured by a veil of ignorance, just like...

Why do we seek happiness and what does yoga have to do with it? We spend our time seeking...