By Steve Brandon. It is often perceived that Hatha Yoga (asana, pranayama, mudra and bandha) and Raja Yoga (mental transformation and enlightenment that follows on from Hatha Yoga) are somehow separate, or even conflicting, approaches to Yoga. This erroneous perception can lead to an unbalanced personal practice because we have not integrated all the aspects [...]
What we’re facing today as human beings, as parents, friends, colleagues and business owners are huge challenges, the nature of which has not happened before since the Industrial Revolution. The combination of the challenges of climate change, resource depletion and economic crisis is unique and extreme. Even if you don’t believe what we’re being told [...]
This article was written by Srivatsa Ramaswami and is reproduced here with his kind permission: ‘Prasāda is a word in normal usage even now in India, in almost all the Indian languages. It indicates something purified/sanctified. It indicates something offered to the Lord and then distributed among the devotees in temples. My Guru would say [...]
