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...When you think of spirituality, remember that being spiritual is not an act of reaching something outside of you. Your spirit is within you, as your breath and as yourself. It is the spirit in you that pulses through you while animating you without failing in its support for you.

With spirituality, you are reminded everyday that you are connected to the universal pulse of life. And it is with yoga and spirituality that you find it possible for you to dissolve any crust you have around your heart so that you can experience and relish the radiance of spirituality.

The actual relationship between yoga and spirituality can be understood when you realize that breathing is an important exchange of matter and energy in the universe. Every breath you take sees an exchange of carbon dioxide molecules from your inner body to the surrounding air. Even an interruption of a few minutes in this process can bring about irreversible damage to your body as the brain and body becomes starved for oxygen.

The heart is the organ that helps you with your breathing and can be considered to be the pulse of life in your body. Breathing is the rhythm of the primordial sea and the ebb and...more

Even More about Communication Skills for Yoga Teachers

...ue that some Yoga teachers have found their niche by suppressing student thought, but this is not Yoga, and it is all about control. The sad fact is - Yoga students, who seek out abusive teacher / student relationships are magnetized to dogmatic personalities and have voluntarily chosen to be in the relationship.

These same primal behavior patterns run parallel to their relationships at home, in work, and in their social lives. This is unfortunate, but all of us have a place in this life, and some people crave the negative attention of an alpha personality. If you observe a wolf pack, you can see much similar behavior.

Getting back to communication skills - Yoga teachers, who masterfully explain concepts through cueing, voice inflection, demonstration, and assisting, have taken the time to practice the art of communication. Seasoned Yoga inst...more

Yoga, Hernia and Madonna

... by yoga Gurus? Are yoga practitioners listening precautions before starting their yoga practice? Well, this is a serious point to consider by all who are teaching yoga and also for people who are practicing yoga. The practitioners need to understand that their ignorance and lack of yoga knowledge may lead them straight into an operation room.

A noble effort has been done by some of the renowned yoga gurus from India and the teachers from the West to spread the awareness of yoga but unless Yoga exercises are done with precautions, more and more people will get injured without realizing.

Issued in public interest by Subodh Gupta, Yoga Expert from India, for all those who are learning yoga without taking precautions.<...more

Yoga and Meditation

...asa. However, he has warned that yoga is very difficult for people whose minds are not steady and controlled. Pantanjali, in Yoga sutra has emphasized these two qualities to achieve mind control. Hence these are the very qualities that make the essence of yoga.

Mind is like a disturbed pond with many impurities. first you need to stop the inflow of fresh impurities and then remove the existing impurities to clean the mind. Abhyasa is the one of the practices for purifying the mind. Dhyana is one of ...more