Is Meditation the Push-Up for the Brain? Study Shows Practice May Have Potential to Change Brain’s Physical Structure
ScienceDaily (July 13, 2011) — Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control [...]
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Side Note: The Upanishads are commentaries on the Vedas.
The Vedas are considered sacred words of wisdom spoken from the gods themselves.
The three main approaches in arriving at the solution to the problem of the Ultimate Reality have traditionally been the theological, the cosmological and the psychological approaches.
The cosmological approach involves [...]
Continue Reading →Physiological Benefits of Yoga
▪ Respiratory rate decreases
▪ Pulse rate decreases
▪ Stable autonomic nervous system equilibrium
▪ Blood Pressure decreases (of special significance for hyporeactors)
▪ Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) increases:
Skin conductance, also known as galvanic skin response (GSR), electrodermal response (EDR), psychogalvanic reflex (PGR), skin [...]
This is the formula for the green drink we have been serving after some of the weekend classes here at the Shala. Please feel free to post your own variations!
2 Lemons
2 apples
2 bunches of cilantro
2 cucumbers
2 stalks of celery
2 bunches of kale… Enjoy!
November 22nd 2010 (This article was copied from the Dali Lama’s official site: dalailama.com)
New Delhi, India, 20 November 2010 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama today engaged in a conversation with renowned Indian master Dr. Yogacharya BKS Iyengar on mind training and compassion in a discussion titled Yogic and Buddhist Techniques of Mind [...]
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Legends & Legacies
B.K.S. Iyengar & K. Pattabhi Jois
Translation of conversation by Sunaad Raghuram
Namarupa- Issue #4
In 1934, K. Pattabhi Jois and B.K.S. Iyengar, both still young men, were students of the fearsome…and soon to be legendary… yogi T. Krishnamacharya. India was still under rule of the British, [...]
Continue Reading →Tight Muscles, Your Diet and Yoga by Dennis Dean
One of the most common questions (in regards to the body) I hear after being an educator for the last 31 years is this, “Can you help me open my hips?” The hips are one of the first places that people feel tightness or lack of [...]
Continue Reading →Yoga and Myofascial Release have taken the world by storm and for many good reasons. But first, what is Myofascial Release?
Myofascial release, often referred to as MFR, is a specialized stretching technique used to release tension and realign the body. The word myofascia is derived from the Latin word “myo,” meaning muscle, and “fascia,” [...]
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At Yoga Mandiram, no pain is your gain
by Destiny Irons | Featured in Encinitas Magazine
Why do Americans think something works only if it hurts?
All-you-can-eat buffets and gorilla size portions stretch out our stomachs to near busting. So yes, all that food surely took care of the hunger. Stores [...]
Dennis Dean & Kathleen Miller,
Devotion Is All You Need…
By Meera Sanghani
Dennis Dean and Kathleen Miller assist student in kapotasana (pigeon pose) during workshop held at Priya Yoga Center.Sadhana means “devotion”… And devotion includes commitment, surrender, trust and plain old hard work. Dennis Dean and Kathleen Miller have been ashtanga [...]
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