Friday 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)
Read moreFriday Discussion: Kinship Podcast
Here’s the link to the podcast by Peg Mulqueen about the Kinship gathering I attended in December 2019. She’s done a wonderful job distilling the essence of the event and…
Read moreFriday Discussion: Why is Pranayama hard?
Even though pranayama is “just” sitting and breathing, for 10-20 minutes, it often seems difficult to do compared to a 1.5 hour asana practice. Merav had a theory as to…
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