Yoga studio for Teacher Training Course

Yoga studio for Teacher Training Course

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...
Pratimoksha Yoga Basics – Yoga classes for all

Pratimoksha Yoga Basics – Yoga classes for all

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...
Pratimoksha Yoga Basics

Pratimoksha Yoga Basics

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...
Yogas Chitta Vritti Nirodha

Yogas Chitta Vritti Nirodha

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...
Why Yoga recommends a Sattvic Diet?

Why Yoga recommends a Sattvic Diet?

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...
Sleep your blues away

Sleep your blues away

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...