The least understood aspects within a typical Yoga teacher training are pratyahara, dharna, dhyana and samadhi. These are the last four of the Eight Limbs described by Maharishi Patanjali within the Yoga Sutras.
Some Yoga schools have strict guidelines to prevent students from meditating in a supine position. Many Yoga certification courses often discourage interns from meditating in Savasana. Although, It has been said, by some, that everyone meditates involuntarily, at night, when they sleep.
Some Yoga teachers are very specific about the optimum time for meditation, but some of us have very strict work schedules. Meditation...
Yoga Nidra is one of the practices of Pratyahara, where the awareness is internalized. Literally, Yoga Nidra means - sleeping consciously.
What tools and props might be useful for meditation? Sitting in a position that keeps the spine straight is a key element in meditation, but Paulji has also mentioned a position he refers to as "Legs Through the Chair" pose.
Relaxation is a fundamental building block to meditation. This point should be made during Yoga teacher training intensives.
Every Yoga teacher training course should break down the meditation process for teaching beginners into building blocks. This enables teachers to take the average person from relaxation and transcend into higher forms of meditation as each stage of training the mind is mastered. It's one thing for interns to understand how to clam their minds. It's quite another matter to take people off the street and enable them to train their minds.
Yoga cannot be summed up in one photo session or one book. Humans often make hasty judgments about subjects. This enables us to quickly sort, classify, and file ideas, in a specific order, so that we may retrieve them easily. The only problem is that we may not have gone beyond the surface layer of our filing system.
Meditation Written By Dr. Rita Khanna Imagine your mind to be a lake and your thoughts the ripples that disturb it. If the lake is still, you can clearly see the life thriving within. Similarly, when your mind is free of thoughts and calm, you can see your inner self, your hidden potential, which you [...]
We often think of meditation as a Hindu or Buddhist practice, but meditation has been practiced for centuries by people from many religions. Among these religions, meditation has also been practiced by Jews, Muslims, Roman Catholics, and Protestants, for the purpose of a deeper spiritual experience.