A short personal talk about self image and the insecurities that come with it. In this talk you learn how the yoga practice can teach you to love and accept your body insecurities.
A short personal talk about self image and the insecurities that come with it. In this talk you learn how the yoga practice can teach you to love and accept your body insecurities.
A talk about the definition of Pranayama and its multiple meanings. About why one should practice Pranayama and how you can control the mind with the breath correctly, so it can eventually change your life.
What is Alternative Nostril Breathing - also called Nadi Shodhana or Anulom Vilom? In this video Master Teacher Sri Sudhir Tiwari carefully explains and demonstrates this gentle cleansing and balancing pranayama technique.
This sequence on flexibility works through endurance, stamina and spinal extension. Kino guides you through both accepting your limitations in terms of flexibility, as well as extending your heart. Back-bending is an important lesson along the spiritual journey of yoga. So when you’re ready to move into your spine, start here.
Ujjayi Breath is by far one of the most popular pranayamas. Sri Sudhir Tiwari explains the technique and benefits as described in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, a classic and influential sanskrit text on hatha yoga. Deepen your understanding of this simple but powerful breathing technique, often applied in vinyasa and ashtanga yoga.
Sri Sudhir Tiwari shares his advice about how our attitude is an important part of our practice. If we want to grow in our yoga practice, often we are told to simply "keep practicing”. But it's not just about getting our bodies onto the mat or cushion on a regular basis.
What does yoga mean, really? Eddie Stern shares his view on enlightenment, modern-day yoga teachers, Pattabhi Jois, and getting to know yourself a little deeper.
This class guided by Kristin opens with gentle breathwork, turning your attention inwards, with an intention of compassion. From here you will take this intention into light and playful movements. You will close this practice with a short meditation on loving kindness.
This is a longer and advanced version of the Gentle Playfulness practice. In this class you will start with a few minutes of breath work, turning your attention inwards, with an intention of compassion. From here you will take that intention into a playful and challenging asana practice, including headstands and backbends. You will close the practice with a short meditation on loving kindness.
Eddie stern talks about how we can integrate the yoga practice in our daily lives. Eddie points out the split between spiritual practice and our regular life and gives insights on how you can let these two worlds flow together. He also shares some personal insights on how he got stuck by identification.
Yoga therapy has become a ‘thing’. For Sri K Pattabhi Jois the primary series was the ‘yoga chikitsa’ meaning therapy, or something which is curative. Eddie Stern explains how all yoga can be therapy, depending on how you use it.
We might resist giving into our habits by will-power. But the subtle longing that underlies those habits is much harder to deal with. Deep patterns such as longing itself seem to go beyond the rational mind - and beyond our will-power. Eddie Stern explains how meditation can affect that level directly.