Yoga Nidra of the most accessible ways of practicing yoga. Read here a brief description what Yoga Nidra is all about. …
Restorative yoga is a relaxing and mellow type of yoga with the aim of, well, restoring the body and the mind. It complements perfectly more dynamic type of asana practises and is also very suitable for complete yoga novices. A typical restorative yoga sequence has very few poses. Depending on the length of the class the sequence has 2-6 asanas. Props such as blocks, bricks, bolsters, blankets and…
Recently I have been reading several articles and studies on the growth of fitness and wellness boom during this decade which, as most of you I am sure would agree, does not show any signs of slowing down. Yoga is of course an integral part of this growth and according to one study I came cross, “yoga” was among the 15 most Googled words in 2017 in the…
The below text is from yesterday morning, something I wrote straight after the yoga class I had taken. It was one of those moments when the right words to express what had until then been just a slightly uncomfortable feeling came to me and demanded to be written down straight away. So I sat down and typed everything on my phone, in the fear that I would lose…
The Third Open Yoga Day Cyprus is coming up on the 8th October, hosted this time in Larnaca, under the theme of Satya, truthfulness. To learn more about this free & open for all event I sat down with two of the organisers, Mayka Sabova and Marilena Shyama Shakti, for a chat. This is the third year this event is being held in Cyprus. Where did the initial…
If you found my previous post interesting, there is more! In a documentary entitled “Who Owns Yoga?” the Al-Jazeera correspondent Bhanu Bhatnagar “explores the impact of our modern obsession with one of the world’s oldest physical and spiritual practises.” The documentary is only 50 minutes long. It features well established names from the yoga world in the West and East, such as Sharon Gannon and David Life (founders…
Bad days happen to all of us. Sometimes you just know the day is not going to be the best one straight after waking up. Sometimes a bad day creeps up on you slowly, starting with an innocent coffee spill, followed by signal failure in the tube and the realisation the keys were left at home… When things start going wrong it can feel like you are watching…
Since 2015 the 21st June has not only marked Summer Solistice but also the International Day of Yoga, as agreed (by an unprecedented consensus) by the United Nation’s General Assembly in December 2014. The idea to observe Yoga Day came from India’s Prime Minister Narenda Modi who at the time stated: “For us in India, respect for nature is an integral part of spiritualism. We treat nature’s bounties…
This past week has been the Mental Health Awareness Week. However, mental health is obviously not an issue just for one week a year, just like a good mental health is more than just absence of a mental health problem. Stress and anxiety for instance are issues that touch all of us at least some point in our lives: school or university exams, professional demands and relationship challenges…
Mennyt viikko oli henkisen hyvinvoinnin teemaviikko (ainakin joissain maissa) mutta aihe on ajankohtainen vuoden jokaisena päivänä. Hengen ja mielen hyvinvointi kun on paljon muutakin kuin mielenterveysongelmien välttäminen. Koulu ja opiskelu, työelämän vaatimukset ja ihmissuhteet aiheuttavat useimmille meistä stressiä ja ahdistusta jossain vaiheessa elämään. Vaikka näitä tilanteita on hankala välttää kokonaan, voi joogasta löytyä iso apu elämän vaikeiden vaiheiden helpottamiseksi. Alla muutamia keinoja miten. 1. Hengittäminen – pranayama –…