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Anatomy of a Spiritual Illness (Part 1 of 5)

The emergency room was packed, and I had to wait an interminably long time. About three hours later, a male nurse wheeled me into an examining room and hooked up an EKG. He glanced at the tape and said, "Wow! Stay cool man, I'll get some help!"

Eliminate Real Poverty During Tough Economic Times Through Meditation

It can be very scary to be faced with uncertainty...a possible job loss, the potential of losing your home to the bank, or an illness. It is important in times like these to realize that nothing in life is really certain. The practice of meditation can help clear the path to happiness.

Enroll Now For Costa Rica Yoga Classes In Nirvana

Beautiful Costa Rica is a great place to learn yoga. Imagine practicing yoga at a pavilion overlooking the ocean, while listening to the sounds of birds and waves crashing on the shore in gorgeous Montezuma, Costa Rica at La Escuela Del Sol, while finding inner peace within yourself.

Your Body's Intelligence: What You Truly Need

Do you ever have those moments when you feel like you should go to the gym or take a yoga class, but you really don't want to? Or you should order the salad but you really want the burger and fries? For me, working on not "shoulding" on myself has been a key part of my own practice (y

Running and Yoga Make a Great Team

Running and yoga are very different types of exercises. However, if used together, they can be a powerful tool in shaping and defending your body against injury. Yoga makes a great compliment to the repetitive stress that running puts on your body.

Yoga Beginner Poses

Knowing which Yoga poses to do is key when it comes to getting the most out of your practice. If you are a beginner just starting out, make sure you learn the right Yoga beginner poses. There are specific Yoga poses that are best for learning in the beginning, and if you put your attention towards u

How to Perform the Triangle Pose in Partner Yoga

Much like the standard triangle pose, or Utthita Trikonasana in Sanskrit, this partner variation stretches the legs, hips, shoulders and chest while strengthening the thighs, knees and ankles. Though you’ll move in and out of the form with some assistance from your partner, you should still f

Guided Group Meditation

Meditation need not always be a solitary activity. There are many classes or groups that offer group meditation activities. Not only is this effective, there are many other benefits that one can achieve by attending them.

A Downward Dog Yoga Pose

The Dog pose or the Adho mukha Svanasana, when performed looks very much like a dog whose forelimbs and head are in a rested position while the hind limbs are pointed upwards. In Sanskrit "Svana" means dog, "adho" means downward and "mukha" means face, hence the name Do

Create Your Own Brain Waves

Looking for a short and simplified version of how brain waves function in regards to meditation and stress? Can you actually participate in your own creation of your brain waves? Why close your eyes to meditate?

Meditation and Yoga

The aim of Yoga is to seek oneness with our source - God. We may prefer to use other terms for God; for example, Buddhists talk of realising our Higher Self and entering into Nirvana. However, whatever term we prefer to use, the underlying essence of yoga is to achieve oneness with our highest exten

Meditate Your Way to Business Success

Princeton University defines meditation as "Continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge" It's all about calming the mind to allow for greater inner perspect

Meditation For Beginners: The Number 1 Most Overlooked Factor!

Regardless if you are a beginner to meditation or you are an experienced meditator, there is one fundamental overlooked factor which you have to keep in mind. And that is holding an expectation of what meditation is really about. Said in another way, it is our notion or ideas that we project about t

Back Pain Motivation Part 2

With not just back pain, the actual mechanisms that make yoga so powerful are still being studied by the medical community, with more than 900 research papers listed by pubmed.org (a Service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of health). Traditional yoga texts teach that