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Q&A: Is Backbending During Pregnancy Safe or Not?

By Sarah Powers — 2007

Different yoga systems have different answers. Sarah Powers addresses the debate of whether backbending during pregnancy is safe.

Read on www.yogajournal.com

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Parenting as a Spiritual Practice

There is enough room in our spiritual expressions not only for all of the love we feel for our families, but also for the hectic, distracted chaos that so often defines parenting small children — if we are willing to expand our understanding of what religious expression is, and can be.

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Spirit: American Kirtankar, Krishna Das

When one hears a chant like Aum Namoh Bhagvate Vasudevaya, it is not a Grammy award ceremony that comes to mind as the setting of such chanting; but that is precisely what Krishna Das has been able to do—take cherished age-old Indian kirtans to a global stage such as the Grammys.

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Krishna Das Talks About His Music, His Guru, and His Practice

He’s driven a school bus, dabbled in the blues, and meditated in the jungles and ashrams of India, but today Krishna Das is known as the King of Kirtan.

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What Is the True Purpose of Yoga?

In his classic work the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali describes yoga as “the progressive quieting of the fluctuations of the mind.

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