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JANU SIRSASANA: Correct Foot Placement
Sit up straight with legs evenly extended in front. Bend the right leg at the knee and place the foot so that the heel is in the right groin and the front of the foot touches the left thigh. Turn the foot so that the bottom of the foot [...] Read more »

There is some very interesting psychology behind this that students of western thinkers (e.g. Freud, Jung, Fromm, etc.) will find familiar and, indeed, quite rational. When an individual decides to be happy, something within that person activates; a kind of will or awareness emerges. This awareness begins to observe the jungle [...] Read more »

A headache suffered is an offshoot of the bottled-up anger while maintaining a guise of happiness on the surface. A Bad Case of ulcers perhaps signifies a person has allowed himself to be steered into an executive job he detests instead of adhering to a financially inferior profitable one, which is the [...] Read more »

As we’ve repeatedly pointed out (and probably started to bore you with; sorry!), yoga is not a religion. It can be religious if one wants it to be, and it can co-exist with an existing religious belief. But yoga itself is not religious in the sense that it focuses on belief or [...] Read more »

As you now know (if you didn’t know it when you started reading, that is!), yoga is a very interesting and ancient approach of uniting the body and the mind. It has proven health benefits, including emotional and physical improvements.
The chances therefore are, if you’re on the verge of starting a yoga [...] Read more »