Deep Rest
Get so chill - your friends ask what you’re on (tell them it’s crazily deep-rooted grass called Vetiver)
The Bear
While undertaking her Panchakarma, Yogandha founder Sinéad Duffy heard a wonderful story that just had to be shared... A Buddhist monk sees a bear, sitting on a park bench, crying. The Buddhist goes over to the park bench and asks the bear why is he crying. The bear answers "because I'm sitting on a nail". So, the monk says, 'well why don't you get off the nail?' The bear answers, "because it doesn't hurt enough yet." Food for thought indeed. We're all the bear at some point in life - we hear our bodies complaining but just will not listen until...
Ethical Guidelines in Yoga
Most spiritual traditions and religions have ethical guidelines. Such as the ten commandments in Christianity or the ten virtues in Buddhism. In the philosophy of Yoga, and specifically in the classic Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, we have the Yamas and Niyamas.
What is yoga?
It’s not all about the yoga studio, yoga leggings, and moving into strange and challenging shapes. Yoga is so much more. There are eight limbs of yoga. And they are:
Yama (abstinence)
Niyama (observance)
Asana (postures - what has inspired modern Yoga classes)
Pranayama (breathing techniques)
Pratyahara (sense withdrawal)
Dharana (concentration)
Dhyana (meditation)
Samadhi (contemplation or superconscious state)
Yoga, philosophy and modern living
Yoga and some of the Yogic texts may be old. But they are certainly not outdated.