Yoga is a practice that extends far beyond the mat. When you dive into your 200-hour yoga teacher training, one of the foundational topics you will learn about are the first two of the Eight Limbs of Yoga – the Yamas and Niyamas. Deborah Adele, author of The...
Including an altar as part of your practice can be an important tool in living with intention. Patanjali teaches us in the Yoga Sutras about the practice Ishvara Pranidhana which teaches us that if we are able to completely surrender our individual ego identities to...
Why Workplace Wellness Matters More Than Ever Many employers now have dedicated wellness departments, especially organizations with more than 20 employees. Research shows that investing in employee health is profitable and improves long-term productivity. Over the...
Diverse Voices Inviting diversity into our yoga classes is so important. When Vivekananda came to the United States his intention was to spread Yoga. He was a non-dual teacher and believed the key to reducing or ending suffering altogether was the realization that...
Making Yoga Financially Accessible It was not Indra Devi’s intention to turn Yoga into a commodity, nor was it Vivkiananda’s or Yogananda’s intention for Yoga to be inaccessible. Yoga was brought to the United States in an attempt to globalize the ancient wisdom...
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali are a collection of 196 Sanskrit aphorisms that are organized into four padas, or volumes. A pada is a unit of Sanskrit meter used to organize and measure a volume of text. Traditionally, these teachings were handed down orally, and it’s...
