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    Yoga Sutras For Modern Day Life: Peaceful Sleep, Peaceful Mind

    February 29, 2016 / No Comments

    Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 1:38 The mind can also be made steady by meditating on a dream or on dreamless sleep.   Defining the Sutra Patanjali continues to talk about techniques to steady the mind. One of these techniques is meditation on a  peaceful dream or on dreamless sleep. By meditating on the tranquility of a pleasant spiritually oriented dream or on the relaxed feeling of deep sleep, one can become relaxed.   Modern Day Application There is an ongoing belief, in the modern world, that yoga is not accessible to all.  Patanjali always disproves this by giving simple techniques for calming the mind. Everyone sleeps. Why not use it to further…

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    Was Pattabhi Jois a Proponent of Seated Meditation & Should You Let Go of Asana For Meditation?

    June 10, 2014 / 1 Comment

    By Shanna Small After David Garrigues’s blog post, What About the Other Seven Limbs, the internet has been discussing if seated meditation is apart of Ashtanga and if we should eventually give up our physical practice for something more meditative.  Here is my two cents. Just because a yoga teacher does not discuss yoga philosophy in their classes does not mean they don’t believe in it.  I will use myself as an example. I am heavy into spirituality and yogic philosophy, but 99% of what I teach is asana. Why? Because the students came for the asana and it is the most effective way to open their minds to the…

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