Archive for the ‘Yoga Philosophy’ Category
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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Truth Be Told – theme of the month blog by Hannah Rutland
Truth be told – Theme of the month with Hannah Whatever you are doing right now – stop. Pause. Take a moment to tune in with the sounds that you can hear around you. Perhaps there is the distant noise of moving traffic, or maybe a dishwasher is moving through a cycle in the next […]
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Guru month – yoga as activism by Keren
“What helped you survive?” Steinem asked Davis before an auditorium packed with remarkable women and social justice organizers. “What made feel capable of getting up every day and moving forward was the fact that there were so many other people involved in the struggle,” Davis responded. “This was not my struggle alone.” “I could only […]
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Theme of the month blog by Jo – Your inner Guru
A guru is a teacher, expert, guide, mentor, master – one who dispels the darkness and reveals the light to his or her followers or students. The guru is a long-standing and respected tradition in Hindu culture particularly, and therefore is very present in the roots of yoga. However, in recent times that light of […]
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