Here are some excerpts from my personal blog. Welcome! June 23, 2018, Chapel Hill, NC Thanks for visiting! Please join me as I embark on a new journey through 21 weeks, 1750 hours of intensive, immersive, Hatha Yoga Teacher Training program at the Isha Yoga Center, set at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains in southern…
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At Ease With Life – Classical Hatha Yoga in Chapel Hill
If the activity of your mind ceases and you are still alert, then you are in yoga. Hatha yoga is about creating a body that is not a hurdle in one’s life. The body instead of being a hurdle or a roadblock becomes a stepping stone in one’s progress of blossoming into his ultimate possibility….
Surya Kriya
Surya Kriya is a potent yogic practice of tremendous antiquity, designed as a holistic process for health, wellness, and complete inner well-being. “Surya” means “sun,” and “kriya” means “inner energy process.” Surya Kriya activates the solar plexus to raise the samat prana, or solar heat, in the system. It also balances a person’s left and…
Yogasanas
The word asana literally means a posture. Out of the innumerable asanas a body can assume, 84 have been identified as Yogasanas, through which one can transform the body and mind into a possibility for ultimate well-being. Yogasanas are not exercises, but rather very subtle processes to manipulate one’s energy in a particular direction. In…
Angamardana
Angamardana, a fitness system rooted in yoga, offers everyone the opportunity to invigorate the body and reach peak physical and mental health. “Angamardana” means gaining complete mastery over the limbs, organs, and other parts of the body. True to its name, this practice revitalizes the body on all levels including the muscles, circulatory system, skeletal…
Upa Yoga
Upa-Yoga is a simple yet powerful set of 10 practices that activate the joints, muscles, and energy system, bringing ease to the whole system. Within the human system, the energy flows along 72,000 pathways called nadis. At the joints, the nadis meet and form nodes, making the joints storehouses of energy. Upa-Yoga activates this energy…
Pranayam – Nadi Shuddhi
“Prana” means the basic life energy within us and “yama” means to control. So to have control over the prana is called pranayam. Nadi Shuddhi is a pranayam which literally means cleansing the nadis. Cleansing fundamentally the Ida and Pingala, the right and left, so that the energy system will work in balance. There is…
Bhuta Shuddhi
Bhuta Shuddhi means “purification of the elements” and is a process of cleansing the 5 elements within the human system (i.e. earth, water, fire, air and space). Isha provide a unique opportunity for everyone to benefit from this science, which otherwise requires intense spiritual practices. The wellbeing of the body and mind can be established…