Tag: quals
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Joy
Swami Nishchalananada made this movie down on the seashore. Please enjoy, and hopefully allow it to inspire you wherever you are, in nature, or in the middle of a busy town or city. It’s the same joy because it comes from within.
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Concentration and Focus
Another extract from a longer satsang, Questions and Answers from India, 2004 Part of the Dynamic of modern life is that we have to set priorities. Machines should be doing all the work for us…. that was how it looked 50 years ago, but actually the machine age, the computer age, has made life faster…
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A question and answer session from 2004 in India
An informal gathering at a friend’s flat in early 2004 leads to some great questions. This is the full session, from which shorter extracts (‘Will and Free Will’, ‘Concentration and Focus’) have been taken – you’ll find them here on this blog under the category ‘Inspirations’.
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Embodiment and Awareness
On the path of yoga, let us have two sentiments regarding our identification. First of all, let us appreciate our embodied form as body and mind –and how extraordinary it is. At the same time, let us identify, even if intellectually and theoretically, with the ever present Awareness which underlies our body and mind, as…
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Sensitivity
How to deal with over-sensitivity to the suffering we see in the World? The answer is not to stop being sensitive, but we can try to flow with life as it arises
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Questions and answers to trainee teachers, November 2019
‘In a Yoga class you just become more aware of subtle aspects of your being. The challenge is to bring Yoga into our daily life so that there is magic in everything we do.’
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Teacher Training – Q&A
Questions and Answers from student teachers on the 2019-22 Teacher Training Course at Mandala Yoga Ashram, including: How can we promote diversity in our Yoga classes? What is the ‘virtuous path’ in a world of conflicting moral beliefs? What is the difference between relaxation and meditation? The different paths of Yoga. The different traditions of…
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Kriyas, and the practice of yoga.
A Satsang given on the evening of May 2nd 2019 to students on the third of the Kriya Yoga course sessions. Topics include a discussion on – Kriya Yoga the limitation of concepts the speeding up of life modern life helps to liberate us from prejudice being receptive but transparent yoga helps us to find…
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