By Kelly Mcgonigal
The yoga tradition offers a refreshing alternative to the New Year’s resolution: the practice of sankalpa, or resolve.
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Calm is needed to maintain our health. With high levels of stress over a long period of time, the body breaks down. During these turbulent times, we need to get back to the calm, still center within.
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Acclaimed yoga and meditation teacher Sarah Powers is known and loved for her unique approach—Insight Yoga—which combines traditional yoga with the meridians of Chinese medicine, as well as Buddhist meditation.
Joseph Campbell called Sanskrit “the great spiritual language of the world.
Lisa Sharkey is a senior vice president and director of creative development for HarperCollins Publishers, one of the biggest publishing houses in the world. Amy interviews Lisa about how to stay mentally strong when you're in a high-pressure situation.
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Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reported men with prostate cancer going through radiation therapy can benefit from yoga. They found that general quality of life and side effects were stable throughout radiation therapy while participating in yoga.
Patanjali defined yoga as Chitta Vritti Nirodha, which means that if you can still the modifications and activity of the mind, you are in yoga. This chant, an excerpt from Patanjali’s yoga sutras is composed and sung by Sounds of Isha.
All forms of Yogic Meditation practiced today are based on the Yoga Sutras—a Sanskrit scripture by the ancient Indian sage, Patanjali. This famous text prescribes a sequence of eight specific practices, ending with samadhi, to reach the ultimate goal of spiritual life.
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Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms.
Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide to the mind states one encounters in meditation, yoga, and other spiritual practices.