Your Yoga Practice is a Love Affair
Yes please, I would love to spend every waking hour doing yoga and then dreaming about yoga in my sleep. Yoga is my thing, it is what I am meant to be doing. Like all the time. But with our modern...
View ArticleYou’re My Version of Perfect: A Meditation on LGBTQ Self-Love
You deserve to be happy. No one has the right to make you or others think that you are not entitled to be happy and to give as well as accept love just like everyone else is. Being the form of...
View ArticleHow Yoga Changed My Self-Image
When I stepped into my first yoga class during my second year of college, I was honestly not prepared to enjoy myself. A close friend had dragged me to her Sunday “Relaxation Vinyasa” class, and after...
View ArticleHow to Gain Balance by Losing Balance
Yesterday was an average day: I woke up to go at work where some interesting news popped out and did lot of e-mailing. I came home at around 6:00 pm in the afternoon by car and I promised myself to go...
View Article8 Poetry Books for Yogis
Many sacred texts throughout history were written in a poetic language or hymn. Even the Quran and the Bible read like prose poems as do numerous Hindu, Buddhist and Yogic scriptures such as the Vedas,...
View ArticleFake It Till You Make It: The Recipe for Believing in Yourself
One of my favourite pieces of advice to give to any new young professional (especially including myself) is to fake it until you make it. What does that mean, you might ask? To bring it back to basics:...
View ArticleLooking for Progress, not Perfection
I’ve always struggled with motivation. I’ve bought and tried various fitness programs, only to quit after a of couple weeks. I end up feeling like I have to start all over again from day one because...
View Article4 Books by Inspiring Yoga Teachers
These four books are written by inspirational female yoga teachers, who not only teach yoga but are also philanthropic businesswomen who’ve founded organizations or movements centered on encouraging...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from 80 Days of Meditation
In the beginning of this year I started meditating daily. For the first time, after finishing my YTT, I had the motivation and interest to start a daily meditation practice. As part of a university...
View Article11 Ways to Squeeze More Yoga into Your Life
Last year I was blessed with a lot of time and few responsibilities. I was doing my exchange at a foreign university and life was simply perfect. Therefore, I had both the time and energy to make yoga...
View ArticleThe Reason Chaos is Good for You
Do you really need the quiet? I am the kind of person that chooses a busy coffee house instead of a quiet library to study. In the library, I feel like I can barely breathe, or I’d be too loud. In the...
View ArticleHow to Learn the Wisdom of Trees
Do you ever wonder how a tree can stay alive for so long when it appears as though it’s not getting water or nourishment? The ground, the surface is dry, no rain for months. Or maybe people chip away...
View ArticleFive Ways to Balance Your Root Chakra
Feeling a little unbalanced, stressed, and overwhelmed lately? Your root chakra might be out of balance! If that sounds a little too “woo,” think about it this way: your root chakra represents...
View ArticleWhy You Should Have a Date Night with Yourself
Today I felt this creeping feeling. It came up to me so slowly that I barely noticed it. And suddenly I felt it. The need to call and meet up with all my friends. The need to go overseas to see my...
View ArticleHow to Find your Creative Spark
Sometimes I feel like a dam that is just about to flood over. Like a balloon that is just about to explode. Like a volcano about to erupt. I can feel that I am full of movements I want to make. Full...
View ArticleThree Ways to Get the Best Vibes
Everything within us, around us, and the entire Universe is energy vibration. We are vibrational beings. Then electrical beings and finally chemical beings. Our vibration determines our electrical...
View ArticleA Global Meditation For Peace
As I sit and write through tears, I’m listening to the horror on CNN in the background. What is happening? I am scared for my children and the children of this planet. It feels as though there has...
View ArticleWhat to Do When Meditation Calls
It hit me when I was cycling back home after shopping early afternoon. The need to stop and just be. The call of meditation. My usual cycling route into town takes me onto the palace grounds, through...
View Article86 Things I Know About Myself (At This Age)
One day a fellow yogi and I started talking about passion. And the more we talked, the more I wondered what goes into one’s passion? And do passions change with age? I guess the answers are relative to...
View ArticleHow to Find More Time for Yoga with Just Five Seconds
I am a yoga lover. I can confidently say that yoga saved my life. That yoga changed my life for the better. I can seriously relate every part of the life I love to yoga. I thank yoga for every little...
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