Modern Yogi interviewed Monica about Ashtanga as therapy and adapting the practice. Monica also talks about whether Ashtanga is for everybody, which role flexibility plays when practising and how yoga can alleviate panic attacks. Additionally, she covers the need for self-love when practising and to meditate to connect with the Divine within us. Finally she explains the importance how ones relationship with oneself prepares one for satisfying relationships with others.
Category Archives: Audio/Video
On Civilization in Crisis and What Yoga Could Do
Yoga has a solution to offer for our civilization in crisis by leading individuals and ultimately our civilization back to self-love, self-respect and from that to respect and love for other individuals, other life-forms and the super-organism, the biosphere. However, by reducing yoga to asana this remedy has been rendered impotent.
A Brief Overview of the Eight Limbs
When BKS Iyengar was once asked what he thought of Ashtanga Yoga he said, “There is only Ashtanga Yoga”. What he meant was that yoga that is not eight-limbed is not truly yoga. In this short video Gregor is explaining what is missing in a lot of modern yoga.
Modern Yoga: What it is and What it could be
In this video Gregor talks about pitfalls into which contemporary yoga culture seems to be falling and how they can be avoided.
Immersion
In this little clip I am talking about my favourite teaching format: Immersions.
How do you know that you live your own destiny?
Gregor speaks about svadharma, becoming a vehicle for a greater intelligence and how to prepare for teaching.
Samadhi, Conditioning and Finding ones Life’s Purpose
A video in which Gregor talks about the relationship between asana, pranayama and meditation on one hand, and objective and objectless samadhi on the other. He puts this in context with the panchakosha doctrine of the Upanishads and the concepts of conditioning and subconscious imprint as described in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. Discussed is also the influence of mind and ego on transformative states.