Vrksasana or The Tree PoseVrks = Tree Yoga sets great store on balance. In fact all of Yoga is an effort towards achieving balance. In action and thought. As such Vrksasana serves as a barometer. As we assume the pose, we might get a sense of how far we are from...
Sukhasana The Easy Pose Sukha = Pleasure When you think of yoga, sitting cross-legged is often the first image that comes to mind. In fact, for the less agile and flexible among us, this is often what leads to thoughts such as: “Will I be able to do Yoga?”; “I am not...
Tadasana The Mountain Pose Tada = Mountain In this new blog series Pratimoksha invites you to explore fundamental #yoga postures that serve as a good starting point to build a Yoga practice. However, a word of caution: It’s a good rule of thumb to...
The wisdom and philosophy of Yoga is largely based on ancient Indian sage Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. This text (see our previous blog https://www.pratimoksha.org/patanjalis-yoga-sutra/) is believed to have been composed between BC1 and 1AD. It is divided into 4...
If you read our previous blog Eat to Live … Thrive and … Find Balance, we discussed how Yoga and Ayurveda see the human being as being made up of 5 basic elements — fire, water, air, ether and earth. These elements combine in various proportions to make up each...
Everything seems better after a good night’s sleep. And that’s more or less a fact. There are scientific reasons why we sleep and why our quota of sleep — it varies person to person — is precious for our physical, mental and emotional health. Although most of us like...
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