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Turn Inward Every Day………

t’s a refrain we’ve heard often enough – “Do it every day for it to make a meaningful impact in your life”. “Consistency bears fruit’. A deed is life-transforming only when it becomes a habit”. And even without these reminders, we have discovered for our own selves,...

Is a 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification Worth It?

If you’ve completed your 200-hour yoga teacher training, you might find yourself at a crossroads with this question creeping in: “Do I need a 300-hour yoga teacher certification?” The short answer? Maybe. The longer answer? That’s where things get complicated because...

Samskrtam: A Living Companion on the Yogic Path

When we speak of Yoga, we cannot forget Sanskrit (Saṁskṛtam, संस्कृतम्). It is the language in which Yoga was born, preserved, and transmitted. Every mantra, every sūtra, every āsana name is rooted in this ancient system of sound. Sanskrit is not just a language - it...
Let Your Own Light Shine….

Let Your Own Light Shine….

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,...

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Mother……

Mother……

"The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word “Mother,” and the most beautiful call is the call of “My mother.” It is a word full of hope and love, a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart.  The mother is...

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Lightly…….

Lightly…….

"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lighty even though you are feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. Lightly, lightly - it's...

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Flow With Vinyasa Yoga…..

Flow With Vinyasa Yoga…..

The term “Vinyasa” comes from the Sanskrit word “nyasa,” meaning “to place,” and “vi,” meaning “in a special way.” In Vinyasa Yoga, the goal is to place each movement in a deliberate, flowing sequence in coordination with your breath....

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Holiday Wishes….

Holiday Wishes….

The YTF wishes all of those members who celebrate a very happy and healthy Easter and Passover. May life's healing and richest blessings realise us all!

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The Art of Yoga Transitions…..

The Art of Yoga Transitions…..

The importance of transitions is often underrated both in a yoga class and in life. But in yoga, transitions serve an important purpose. Their job is to get a yoga practitioner from one pose to another. The goal is to transition safely...

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Inner Reset…..

Inner Reset…..

Let’s just take a moment, and slow down, inside ourselves. - slow down - You can always take a moment. But you have to take it. No one will give it to you. It’s not theirs to give, but it is yours to take. Such an incredibly valuable,...

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Stepping Stones of a Yoga Pratice….

Stepping Stones of a Yoga Pratice….

Have you ever taken a yoga class that was far beyond your level or capacity? There were no options given other than to keep ‘pushing through’? Chances are you felt very little steadiness or much feeling of accomplishment – and maybe even...

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Change And What We Can Learn From Yoga….

Change is profoundly challenging. How many times in your life have you seen change rolling toward you, and deemed it unacceptable, not your plan? Found yourself working wildly to prevent or ignore it? Of course, it happened anyway. And...

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Why Practice Yoga…….

“Yoga is not about self-improvement or making ourselves better. It is a process of deconstructing all the barriers we may have erected that prevent us from having an authentic connection with ourselves and with the world.” – Donna Farhi...

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What is Yoga?…………….

Yoga is a way to restore our lost wholeness, our integrity as complete human beings, by unifying the personality around a centre that is silent, unbounded, spacious, and joyful. The techniques of yoga are methods of purifying the nervous...

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Breaking Patterns…….

We go into change rehearsing the history that brought us to this point ~ Parker Palmer "Often we rehearse the truth until we find the courage to live it. When feeling the press of the patterns that govern our lives, it can be a slow and...

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Yoga: The Freedom to Be Whole…….

As humans we all experience various forms of suffering. While caught in the midst of our universal patterns of suffering we have a tendency to get stuck in states of mind that decrease our ability to process what is happening. If, however...

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Evolve or Remain…….

Evolve or Remain…….

“You are being presented with a choice: evolve or remain. If you choose to remain you will be presented with the same challenges, the same routine, the same storms, the same situations, until you learn from them, until you love yourself...

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Note To Self…….

Welcome to a New Year! Below are some gentle reminders of the teachings for your successful, healthy and fulfilling Yogic New Year as per Swami Sitaramananda. Happiness is within, calm the mind with Yoga practice to find happiness. Peace...

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To A New Year…..

2025 starts on a Wednesday. Named after Mercury, Odin, and Athena. Wednesdays afford opportunities to seek wisdom, change circumstances, and improve skills. it is also the day to embrace music, art, poetry, and home in on communication...

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Surya Namaskar…

Surya Namaskar…

"What soul was his, when from the naked top of some bold headland, he beheld the sun rise up, and bathe the world in light" William Wandsworth, The Excursion When we look at our closest star, we may see nothing more than a big yellow...

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Baddha Konasana……

Baddha Konasana……

Taking inspiration from the flutter of butterflies presently delighting us with their presence let us look at Baddha Konasana also known as the Butterfly or Bound Angle Pose. This pose is believed to have its origins in the typical...

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Benefits of Practicing Phalakasana….

Benefits of Practicing Phalakasana….

Requiring strength and steadiness, plank pose, or phalakasana (fal-ack-AHS-anna), is an essential posture for a strong yoga practice. Helping you develop the strength needed to access more advanced arm balancing postures, holding plank...

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Extension and Expansion…..

Extension and Expansion…..

"The goal of all asana practice is doing them from the core of your being and extending out dynamically through to the periphery of your body. As you stretch, in turn the periphery takes messages back to the core. From head to heels, you...

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From The Heart…..

From The Heart…..

"Begin your practice from the heart, doing it because of Oneness – raising your Consciousness raises all Consciousness, pouring healing out into the Cosmos. Our inner eye knows that we do not need anything so we do not need to grasp at...

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How To Create A Home Yoga Practice…..

How To Create A Home Yoga Practice…..

Yoga is an incredibly powerful practice that anyone can pick up in their home and experience the benefits. With practice you really learn to move at your own pace, listen to your body, and develop a stronger mind/body connection. Start...

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Pasasana……

Pasasana……

Pasasana is an asana in which the body is twisted and the arms are bound around the squatting legs. The name comes from the Sanskrit pasa, meaning “noose,” “tie” or “snare,” and asana, which means "pose" or “posture." It is so called...

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Healing Headaches with Yoga….

Healing Headaches with Yoga….

  There are many causes of headaches, tension being the most common as it causes constant contraction of the head and neck muscles.  By including the following postures in your regular yoga practice you can help prevent headaches...

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Mastering Padmasana….

Mastering Padmasana….

All our yoga asanas are in preparation for the physical stillness, the anchored balance and grounded mindful awareness that padmasana, full lotus sitting posture, affords.

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Open your Heart…..

Open your Heart…..

For many, "opening your heart" implies receptivity to love and intimacy in a romantic relationship — bring on the candy and flowers. Back bends, also known as heart openers, focus on the heart chakra.  Consider the slumped shoulders of...

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Viparati Karani (Modified Shoulder Stand)

Viparati Karani (Modified Shoulder Stand)

“Invest 1 percent of each day’s time in you and the other 99 percent will benefit” Prof .Colin Turner This translates into 12 minutes of your waking hours which is exactly how much time you need for this asana The Practice: Place a folded...

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Salamba Sarvangasana ( Shoulder Stand)

Salamba Sarvangasana ( Shoulder Stand)

Shoulder Stand is a favourite asana for many people and may be included in one’s daily practice as a “reward” for all the hard work done earlier in the vinyasa… In this asana, the body is inverted and supported by the shoulders and arms....

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Gyan Mudra….

Gyan Mudra….

Gyan Mudra is one of the most familiar hasta mudras (hand gestures). Many of the great spiritual masters are depicted sitting in meditation with their hands in Gyan Mudra with the thumb and index finger brought together in gentle contact....

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Warm and Rooted  with Virasana

Warm and Rooted with Virasana

Practicing yoga asana is one way to keep ourselves nimble, and not just in our daily movements through space. Many of yoga’s asanas also benefit the vital internal systems that operate 24/7 to keep us alive. Virasana (Hero’s Pose) resides...

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Yoga Asanas to help with Insomnia

Yoga Asanas to help with Insomnia

Insomnia is a serious medical and psychiatric condition, characterized primarily by sleeplessness. Sleep is a basic necessity of human bodies. It is a restorative state in which the human body rejuvenates itself. But, for people dealing...

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Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana

Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana

This asana gives a lovely lateral torso stretch and works into the tiny muscles between the side ribs. The hamstrings and inner thigh muscles are lengthened, the hips and shoulder sockets are loosened and blood circulation is increased to...

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International Day of Yoga……

International Day of Yoga……

International Yoga Day - 21 June - is celebrated each year to create awareness that regular yoga practice increases the level of overall well-being. 21 June was declared as the ‘International Yoga Day’ by the United Nations General...

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The Natural Order of Things……

The Natural Order of Things……

"There are no random events, nor are there things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation. The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and...

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Love Is In All …..

Love Is In All …..

Love is the spirit of the moonlight, the desire of the sunlight: holds all the mysteries of the night and intention of the Stars. Love directs the four winds, is the eye of the storm and the fragrance of the flower. Love is the song of...

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An image reflected in a mirror…

An image reflected in a mirror…

"An image reflected in a mirror, a rainbow in the sky and a painted scene make their impressions on the mind, but in essence are other than what they seem. Look deeply at the world and see an illusion" "a magician's dream." - The 7th...

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A Clear Way Forward….

A Clear Way Forward….

We spend much of our lives seeking the approval of others, not even realising that we are doing so.  When we reach the stage when we are more interested in our own motivations, then we can be objective in our approach to being a witness...

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A Life of One’s Own….

A Life of One’s Own….

"I had at least begun to guess that my greatest need might be to let go and be free from the drive after achievement — if only I dared. I had also guessed that perhaps when I had let these go, then I might be free to become aware of some...

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Namaste Dedication on Human Rights Day …

Namaste Dedication on Human Rights Day …

May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness. May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. May all beings never be parted from freedom's true joy. May all beings dwell in equanimity, free from attachment...

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Concentration

Concentration

After winning several archery contests, the young and rather boastful champion challenged a Zen master who was renowned for his skill as an archer... The young man demonstrated remarkable technical proficiency when he hit a distant bull's...

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The Box……

Stig Pryds is a Danish record holding freediver. He was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2008, which disabled him so much that he lost his business. After 5 years of intense pain and increasing dependency on drugs, he decided to quit...

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Right Speech….

Right Speech….

" Sometimes we speak clumsily and create internal knots in others. Then we say, “I was just telling the truth.” It may be the truth, but if our way of speaking causes unnecessary suffering, it is not Right Speech. The truth must be...

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Being Whole…..

Being Whole…..

“You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.”  - Joy Page

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Just For Now…..

Just For Now…..

"Just for now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness. Just for now, lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders. Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of the sky grow even wider as your...

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Let It Go……

Let It Go……

"Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold: the holding of plans or dreams or expectations - let it all go. Save your strength to swim with the tide.  The choice to fight what is here before you now will only result in struggle,...

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Not Minding what Happens……

Not Minding what Happens……

J. Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, spoke and travelled almost continuously all over the world for more than fifty years attempting to convey through words - which are content - that which is beyond words,...

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Surrender….

Surrender….

" Surrender to what is.  Say yes to life - and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you" - Eckhart Tolle, The Power Of Now 

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Truth…..

Truth…..

"Truth is not something to be achieved. Truth comes into being when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to...

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The Unfolding of Life….

The Unfolding of Life….

Wrapped within young leaves: the sound of water. ~ Soseki Wrapped within young leaves is the sound of water that will nourish them once they have opened. It's already there prompting them to unfold and grow. To believe that this is...

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The River Of Life…..

The River Of Life…..

" Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at...

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Love In Action….

Love In Action….

" And now all of us simply give thanks that they are free. As the world fragments, here good people have got it together. The boys will still need much help. I know that trauma does not evaporate with news coverage. But what we have seen...

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Inspiration…….

Inspiration…….

" When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.  Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and...

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The Architect…..

The Architect…..

"When a human being learns to seek religion not in gods, but in his own potentials, then he will know that he is great and that within his greatness lies his happiness. When he rapidly unfolds the chapters of life’s manuscript, of which...

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Freedom…….

Freedom…….

" I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer your friendship. I see your beauty. I see your need.  I feel your feelings.   My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love." -...

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See the Beauty…..

See the Beauty…..

"Why gaze down the sewers when there is loveliness all around us? One may find fault in even the greatest masterpieces of art, music and literature. But isn't it better to enjoy their charm and glory? Life has a bright side and a dark...

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Yin and Yang…..

Yin and Yang…..

Patterns define our lives. Look around you right now; look carefully and you will notice the patterns surrounding you. Look up; you will see things that are high. Look down; you will see things that are low. Listen; you will hear things...

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Ishnaan (Cold Water Therapy)……

Cold showers are almost universally loathed – but what if they could be used as a tool for healing and well-being? It might make you cringe, but many yogis and other wellness experts say they can. Ishnaan, or cold- water therapy, is...

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Stability Leads To Freedom…….

The Sanskrit word ‘tapas’ is most often translated as ‘discipline’, which for most people, is not a very attractive word. We tend to feel that discipline is something that that binds us and keeps us from going with the flow. However, if...

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Surrender……

” Surrender to what is.  Say yes to life – and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you” – Eckhart Tolle, The Power Of Now 

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Meeting Yourself……..

When you are so graced, there is a refraining from the habit of distraction and a turning inside. Instead of being reactive to what is arising in the play, you turn inside to feel into the internal response. It is always old, it is always...

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Welcome To A New Year…….

Welcome to a New Year! Below are some gentle reminders of the teachings for your successful, healthy and fulfilling Yogic New Year as per Swami Sitaramananda. Happiness is within, calm the mind with Yoga practice to find happiness. Peace...

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Festive Wishes….

Festive Wishes….

“May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy.May all beings be safe.May all beings awaken to their true nature.May all beings be free.”- Metta Prayer Wishing you  peace and love in abundance over the festive season going forward...

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