Yoga Foundations: Spirals, Arches and Yoga Asana
Foundations of Yoga Asana “While you are disturbed by your body, your nerves will become disturbed and you cannot concentrate the mind” (Vivekananda Patanjali Sutras, 2: 46-48) Yoga Asana is one part of the 8 limbs of Yoga. It is often interpreted as Yoga posture. These Yoga postures are built upon spiral and arch forms. Learning […]
Psychedelics, Yoga and the Shamanic Journey Part IV: Integration
Integration with Yoga Therapy & Fasting Psychedelics, Yoga Therapy & Trauma – Integration of the Shamanic Journey: After the trauma of loss I had been through when leaving Spain, as I described in part III of this blog, and the resulting deep subconscious work that I had done in the Yucatán with psychedelics, I could tell that […]
Yoga Therapy: The True Self vs. Obedience & Authority
Observing and releasing the binds of the conditioned mind through Yoga Therapy and Meditation. ´Give me child until age seven and I will show you the man´ – Ignatius of Loyola The whole point and purpose of the art and science of Yoga and Yoga Therapy is to help each individual experience for themselves their own […]
Yoga + YBR ONLINE: Your Digestion and Breath
Yoga + YBR: Digestion, Breath, Health and Well-being As I finish up the first half of the IAYT Yoga therapy training with Paramanand Institute of Science and Research I am struck yet again by the holistic wisdom of Hatha Yoga. For example, in Sanskrit the word Āhāra means food. The concept of Āhāra is not […]
Hatha Yoga: The Union towards Liberation
All search is in vain until we begin to perceive that knowledge is within ourselves, that no one can help us, that we must help ourselves. – (Patanjali-Vivekananda 2: 27) I started to write this blog a few weeks ago. With the quarantine for COVID-19, I am even more convinced of the wisdom and liberating power […]
Tree of Eden : Karmuka Yoga (Unity) Poems
Tree of Eden All branches of philosophies, mystics and religiousities All stemming from the same, unified, trunk of being Systems and disciplines reduced and expanded Created and modeled Written and Spoken To guide into experience and see that we have never been seperate from you, from me From the beginning to the ending, connected, Intricately […]
Topsy Turvy : Karmuka Yoga (Unity) Poems
TOPSY TURVY In a world all topsy turvy Where the fear of death, kills the joy of life Where health resides in disconnection And sickness accuses connection. Where weightless clouds dance across dunes of sand and leaves flutter and float in heavy water Chaos and uncertainty Gently rest in the silence of emptiness That space […]
Prana: the duality and non-duality of existence.
Prana and Yoga Asana Yoga asana is not an external form created to get you more likes on Instagram. They are a set of various shapes designed to activate powerful internal actions that create more space and alignment throughout the skeletal, muscular and nervous system. Each form is designed so that the practitioner may increase their […]
Left vs. Right Brain: Dharana, Dhyana, Samahdi and FLOW
In his book, The Master and his Emmissary, Dr. Ian McGilchrist takes the reader through how the structural differences in attention of the left and right brain affect individual and societal perception and behavior. Illustrating in allegory and story what McGilchrists research and work of 20 years conveys, the Yoga Sutras describe 3 different perceptual […]
The JOY of Non-Attachment: Surviving the trauma of Covid 19
´The more you fly from nature, the more she follows you, and if you do not care for her at all, she becomes your servant. ´ Patanjali Sutras 2:27 I am of the opinion that every guideline, practice and ethical rule was carefully selected by Patanjali and placed within the Yoga sutras to help us […]