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After practicing yoga for over thirty years down in the big smoke we felt called to move back into nature into an environment ideal to go deeper into the higher limbs of yoga practice. The Vedas suggest that when one comes to the middle of ones life (around 50) to change ones mode of life and spend more time on spiritual practice in nature. This mode of life is called vanaprashtha (forest dweller). This same mode of life is suggested in many yogic texts. We took that quite literally and live now on a mountaintop surrounded by ancient rainforest. Living in nature inspires our practice greatly, which we can then share when we come back into the cities to teach workshops or retreats.
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Samadhi, Enlightenment, Situationism, and Developing the Center
Ebook versions of Samadhi The Great Freedom finally available. For now on ashtangayogabooks.com...
Awaken the Body’s Intelligence – Yoga in Cold Places, on Planes and when Adding on
I had a query from a student who usually practices in a hot, tropical climate with temperatures of...
Yoga and Aging
When I was young and naïve I used to say “the good thing about practicing yoga is that as you get...
Is forgiveness the start of self-love?
In my last post I pointed out the importance of self-love for ones yoga practice. I was asked...
Why I continue to practice Ashtanga
Recently I read an article in which the author wrote about her difficulties in maintaining her...
Bringing Our Hands Together in Prayer
Bringing our hands together in prayer is a universally understood gesture of peace and good...
How to deal with the Dark Night of the Soul?
I have been asked to write about the “Dark Night of the Soul”. The medieval mystic Saint John of...
Does all Misalignment come from “Incorrect Breathing”?
I was asked to comment on the statement, 'All misalignment comes from incorrect breathing '. A...
What’s Causing That Knee Pain?
Recently, I was instructing my students on looking after their knees in hip-opening asana. I said,...
The Samadhi Interview
The Ashtanga Picture Project interviewed me on my latest book and its subject samadhi. Here it is:...
Why right leg first into lotus posture?
I was asked why we put the right leg into full lotus (Padmasana) first and whether it gets...
Finally available: Samadhi The Great Freedom
You can get it here on this site at https://chintamaniyoga.com/shop/ or at your favourite online...
Natural and Spiritual Evolution
The currently predominant concept of Western Science regarding our evolution can be succinctly...
Mountaintop Metaphor Revisited
Objectless samadhi is like the summit of a mighty mountain. In order to reach the summit you must...
The Role of the Adductors in Backbends
Many yoga practitioners instinctually know to engage their inner thigh muscles (adductors) in...
The Child and the Mystical State
In moments when everything is taken away from us, we may remember, in deep grief, that there is...
Is the World an Illusion, the Body a Prison and Woman a Spiritual Obstacle?
Yoga Sutra 1.2 states: “Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.” But this stanza...
Bhakti and the Tree of Eternal Life
When Paramahamsa Ramakrishna was asked how he attained samadhi his answer was, “Through total...
Muscles, Emotions & the Heart of Them
Everything we ever experience affects every cell in our body. And we feel that. We’ve all noticed...
Are We Turning Earth Into Our Own Graveyard?
A new article has just been posted on the BBC website called Earth ‘entering new extinction phase’...
The Greatness of Padmasana
I received some queries about the importance of Padmasana and if it was worth the effort. The...
The Peak Experience in Yoga and Religion
Let me explain why I use spiritual expressions that border on the religious and why I say that the...
The Yoga Sutra’s Role in the Yogic Tradition
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, although often the first text yogis look at, by itself constitutes...
How important really is yoga history for the yogi?
Western university scholars often look at the Yoga Sutra isolated from the rest of the yoga...
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