Friday Discussion: Attitudes are Skills
From Seth Godin’s blog: Once you realize that you can improve, amplify and refine the things that other people call attitudes, you may realize that they are skills. Which is…
Read moreFriday Discussion: Octopi
This week I recommended the documentary My Octopus Teacher. As Erica and Spiros say: In the film the documentarian dives into the same kelp forest every day to visit the…
Read moreFriday Discussion: Yoga Sutras and Gita
This is Ram’s article on his blog: “YOGASŪTRA OF PATAÑJALI AND BHAGAVADGĪTĀ OF VYĀSA” that I talked about at the beginning of the Friday Led Primary. It has hard-to-find information…
Read moreFriday Discussion: Hesitation
This podcast discusses a 2014 paper by Alia Al-Saji about hesitation and seeing the world: […] Hesitation, which means literally stopping to interrogate your own habits of seeing, and so…
Read morePodcast about Breath
In our continuing series of interesting content relating to Pranayama, here’s a podcast worth listening to: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/27/862963172/how-the-lost-art-of-breathing-can-impact-sleep-and-resilience (Hat tip Byron)
Read moreDon’t ‘Do’ Yoga
This was contributed by Satish Ramachandran We sometimes approach the mat with a desired result, a desire for something on a given day. It could be to attain mastery over…
Read moreArticle on deep breathing and virus
In our current theme of yogic breathing and helping with breathing diseases, here’s an interesting article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deep-breathing-coronavirus-patients-symptoms When you practice the deep breathing technique like in Munshi’s video, you are…
Read moreCoronavirus Pneumonia and Pranayama
This article in the NYTimes about Covid Pneumonia got me thinking about the role of Pranayama as an early diagnostic tool to alert you of breathing issues caused by the…
Read moreYoga in the Age of the Coronavirus
Article by Guy Donahaye from New York: https://www.ashtangayoga.nyc/yoga-sadhana/2020/3/31/yoga-in-the-age-of-coronavirus
Read moreThe hidden treasure of Sanskrit
Great article on the relevance of Sanskrit in the modern day (hat tip Bala)
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