by Gregor Maehle | Nov 13, 2021 | Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Pranayama
I am hereby presenting the eight volume or my series of yoga text books, Mudras – Seals of Yoga. I started to write this book over ten years ago, and it was to be the first volume in a Mudra, Pranayama, Meditation trilogy. Instead I changed course and focussed on...
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 | Nov 20, 2015 | Ashtanga Yoga, Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Teaching
I have been asked to write about the “Dark Night of the Soul”. The medieval mystic Saint John of the Cross coined the term and it describes the painful relapses of a spiritual seeker who has tasted (possibly repeatedly) freedom, joy and ecstasy only to rebound and to...
by Gregor Maehle | Aug 2, 2015 | Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Yoga Philosophy
In moments when everything is taken away from us, we may remember, in deep grief, that there is something within that cannot be lost or gained. Something that is forever and eternally uncreated and un-born and that will never die. I had such a moment in my childhood...
by Gregor Maehle | Jun 6, 2015 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Pranayama
I received some queries about the importance of Padmasana and if it was worth the effort. The answer is yes and I explain exactly why and what the reward can be. But it also comes with a warning. Never let your legs go numb because as you will read, doing so gave me a...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 19, 2014 | Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Pranayama
I am getting a fair amount of enquiries relating to strange, very intense body symptoms, sometimes involving loss of consciousness, incredible surges of energy, burning sensations accompanied by emotional highs and discharges in some cases uncontrolled catharting....
