Tag: calm

  • Bikram Yoga Posture #1: Standing Deep Breathing – Pranayama Series

    Posture #1 Standing Deep Breathing Pranayama Series The first Bikram posture is Standing Deep Breathing – Pranayama series. This breathing exercise settles you into a relaxed, calm and controlled mindset, heart rate and breathing pattern. The focused breathing prepares you for the rest of the ninety minute practice by recentering your focus inwardly and brings…

  • Introduction to Bikram Yoga

    Bikram Yoga is the twenty-six posture sequence selected and developed by Bikram Choudhury, widely popularized in the early 1970s. Synthesized from traditional Hatha Yoga techniques, this posture sequence systematically moves fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of the body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as nature…

  • My Dhyana Self-Knowledge

    I am grateful to be feeling so much today. I have been particularly inspired by learning about Dhyana, or meditation of yoga. It actually brought me to tears this morning and I’ve been in a slow, positive, steady emotional recovery since. I am presently feeling refreshed with appreciation for my own self-knowledge. “…once it has…

  • Cultivate Equanimity

    Cultivate Equanimity

    If your mind becomes firm like a rock And no longer shakes In a world where everything is shaking Your mind will be your greatest friend And suffering will not come your way. -poem from the Therigatha Steadiness and strength of mind in the midst of stress, chaos and uncertainty of life, is not a…