Archive for the ‘Yoga Philosophy’ Category
Theme of the month June – JAI MA!
Jai Ma! A month of Ma coming up at FYS. Join us at FYS this coming month to celebrate the divine mother in all her forms, and in her biggest, most powerful form, that of MOTHER EARTH. Mother Earth is in a constant state of creating and giving and nourishing us all through her offerings […]
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May theme of the month – Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
1.1 ATHA YOGANUSASANAM This is the first yoga sutra of Patanjali’s sacred text, a must read for all yoga students who want to delve into the practice beyond the physical shapes that we make, but what does it mean? It has been translated in many ways but it means something along these lines: Now […]
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April Theme of the month – yoga as activism
The state of the world has been pressing on me more than usual this past month. In fact, I would go as far to say it’s causing me anxiety even when i’m sleeping and dreaming about moving to a commune in the mountains somewhere. Let’s face it, we are most certainly deep into Kali Yuga…climate […]
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Control your breath, control your life – March theme of the month
The theme of the month in March at the studio is Pranayama, we broadly all understand this as breath work or breathing practices but spare me a moment to dissect this word PranaYama. Prana is life force, energy of in Chinese medicine terms, chi. Prana exists in every living thing. Some creatures and things have […]
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Theme of the month – Prema – Divine Love
The theme of the month here at FYS this month is a beautiful sanskrit word – PREMA. Prema is a sanskrit word for love, unlike Kama (selfish love) Prema is unconditional, divine and a higher sense of love. It is the love of a parent for a child for example, unconditional and fierce in its […]
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