by Gregor Maehle | Oct 29, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation
A must-do prep for Upward Facing Dog and an effective and vital corrective for a hyper-kyphosis (hunchback) posture. Usually when we perform Upward Facing Dog, we tend to take the backbend where it comes easily – in our low back. This exercise will teach you...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 12, 2021 | Audio/Video, Kundalini, Pranayama
Lovers of technical yoga talk rejoice! In this extraordinarily geeky interview Nathan from Escaping Samsara asks me about nuances of pranayama and meditation practices. We also talk about my Map of Transformative States in my most recent book and get a glimpse into...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 2, 2021 | Psychology, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
We have a tendency of going through life entertaining righteous anger (sometimes called holy anger), and holding grudges against people who have slighted us or outsmarted us is a big part of that. And we believe that we are entitled to hold those grudges and that,...
by Gregor Maehle | Sep 4, 2021 | Ecology, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
Everybody would like to be guided by a higher intelligence, even if that is not the exact wording they would give to this process. And why wouldn’t we? The amount of certainty and inner peace that we could derive from such an apprenticeship is comparable to nothing...
by Gregor Maehle | Jul 24, 2021 | Meditation and Samadhi, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
This is the complete Chapter 8 from my recent book Chakras, Drugs and Evolution. This chapter is my reckoning with Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy, in which he suggests that all mystics were essentially experiencing the same even if they clothed it in...
