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Deliberations With Devdutt

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Blessed To Be Your Children

We are well aware about the saying, “Behind every successful man there is a woman” but at The Yoga Institute we can tweak this saying to, “Behind the growth of every Sadhaka, there is just one woman, and that woman is our beloved Hansa Maa.” Her ever-smiling face takes away the frown, offering peace and tranquillity. As a yoga Sadhaka, I can vouch on behalf of everyone that her presence brings a sense of security.

Yoga News - A. N. Desai

The Yoga Institute received the for Prime Minister’s Award Outstanding Contribution for Promotion and Development of Yoga.

Work Right, Sleep Right

Today, one of the most common things after fast food is nightlife.

Research In Yoga

Review and excerpts from Article “Yoga: Can it be Integrated with Treatment of Neuropathic Pain?” Source: Integrative Medicine International Journal Integr Med Int 2017; 4: 69 -84

From The Archives Of Yoga And Total Health - Reminisces

Published in ‘ Yoga and Total Health’ November 1990

Deliberations With Devdutt Competitors And Collaborators

In a wolf pack, we find collaboration and competition.

The Mystic Who Transformed a Disease into Your Guru

If someone asks me to sum up my impressions about Dr. Jayadeva, I would say that he was a mystic householder who has transformed the lives of thousands. If his illustrious father, Shri Yogendraji was a Householder Yogi, Dr. Jayadeva was a Householder Mystic to me.

Abhay Daan

Talk by Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra 

The Yoga Institute - Life Maker

I Joined 7-Month Teacher Training Course at The Yoga Institute with a lot of reservation, mainly because of my age.

Passing The Baton

Dr. Jayadeva had a huge pair of shoes to fill - his father’s. Shri Yogendraji had laid the foundations of the work to be done and informed his son, Jayadeva, now coming of age, that the responsibility of spreading the word of yoga now lay on his young shoulders.

Objectivity - The Road To Happiness

Objectivity, as we understand, is an unbiased viewpoint - a relaxed state where one’s view is not coloured by overriding emotions.

Yoga Mudra - (Symbol of Yoga)

We are just small miniscule parts in the larger process of life.

Learn Karma Yoga In 21 Days

I had recently enrolled as a volunteer for the 21 days Better Living Certificate Course. Strange as life may seem, this was the first course that I had done as a student at the Institute and this ended up being the first course where I gave my first lecture as a certified yoga teacher!

A Day without Addiction - The Yogic Way

Addiction - a word that we all want to avoid, but we still indulge into. Drinking, smoking, are the common addictions we know of. But look deeper. Look aroundnot at others but at yourself. Look around yourself and you will realize the addictions you are prone to.

My Association with The Yoga Institute

I am associated with The Yoga Institute at Santacruz (East) now for nearly forty years. Most of the students of yoga science join yoga courses to find some solution for their health ailments. Some come to learn about our old culture of yoga. I don’t think I had any of the two above reasons to join The Yoga Institute.

Darkest Before Dawn

Having just completed the Yoga Teacher Training Course (TTC) and a programme on Transactional Analysis (TA), a psychological theory, I was reflecting on my transformation over the past few months.

Love Of Life - A Klesha

Ahara (food), Nidra (sleep), Bhaya (fear), are accepted in Indian literature as characteristics of all living creatures.

Critical Role Of Clarity In Thoughts And Actions

As we age, we suffer from aches and pains and promptly hope and expect some medicines to do the job of pain relief.

Feelings

In our country, the culture is very strong.

Uplifting The Mind is More Important

As we get up in the morning, there is calm, quiet around - we have had a rested time, we are at peace, we are looking forward to the day enthusiastically.

How I Overcame Anger-Frustration-Depression

I am sharing two personal experiences of how yoga has helped me control my mind.

The Power Of Vulnerability

I feel fear.

The Yogis- Shri Yogendraji

What was this due to - this great culture of the Yogis? It was their self-concentrated stage, a stage higher than our physical and the mental planes where they could see reality face to face. They controlled their inner activities and misleading perceptions, to realize that Ultimate Truth - that stage of higher super-consciousness. Plotinus glimpsed the truth and found that it is only by an act of intuition in which the mind rises above thoughts and merges in the object, that one can realize the Ultimate Reality.

Experience

When we talk about experience, joy is an experience. The experience comes only when a person goes a little deeper and does not function at the superficial level.

A Morning Cup Of Mindulness

Tighten your palms into fists. Tighter! Tighter!

Who Has Robbed The Swami's Honey?

An episode in the life of Swami Chidananda - Yogi extraordinaire.

It's Only Words

“It’s only words and words are all I have”, so goes the famous song of the 70’s. I too just have words to express gratitude.

Mantra Yoga- Shri Yogendraji

It was through that course of yoga known by the name Mantra Yoga that Alfred Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate of England, by the successive concentration and repetition of his name, attained the state of self-consciousness.

Guru- Chela

Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra in Parisamvada