In 2003 I was working as a service engineer, studying on the Viniyoga Practitioner Course and developing my own personal Yoga practice. I had bought a book by Gary Kraftsow entitled ‘Yoga for Transformation’. In the section on ‘Refining the personality’ there is a practice where you are asked to use some reflective meditations. I [...]
This article was written by Srivatsa Ramaswami and is reproduced here with his kind permission. In my previous newsletter I wrote about the enormous scholarship of my revered Guru Sri Krishnamacharya. He taught several traditional texts including many upanishads I had mentioned the general approach of the old works to guide the student from the [...]
My Prayers to Patanjali, hailing from a family of sages, who by his work on yoga, grammar and therapy, helped mankind eradicate defilements of mind language and body. -Traditional Sanskrit prayer In an ancient civilisation people were suffering from pains due to defilements of body, speech and mind so they prayed to the Lord for [...]
