For many of us, the start of a new calendar year is a time we hope to create real change. But we often fear that things will continue as they have before. How can we give our dreams a better chance of manifesting? The yoga classic Bhagavad Gita offers concrete wisdom to guide us in this post by author Atmadarshan.
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Is It a Bad Year - or a Great One?
Yoga can help us determine how we say farewell to the old and welcome the new!
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Does yoga come from a specific culture or part of the world? No… and yes! Find out more with this 2-minute read.
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“Yoga” is an ancient Sanskrit word that means “union.” But union of what? And does yoga focus on anything besides stretching? Find the answers to these questions and more in this 2-minute read!
Read moreHow We Bring Yoga Into Our Business
Like many of you, we bring the principles of yoga into our daily life. One way we do this is to apply the axioms of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, which offers 10 guidelines for making the world a better place, to our business. We have chosen to focus on the guideline of ...
Read moreCan We Change History?
Something big is happening in the nation. A group of disenfranchised people, distinguished by skin color, has been stripped of their property and wealth. They have been publicly assaulted and can not get justice by following the rules that those in power set for them. Now, they are rising up to claim what is theirs.
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Read moreQualities of a True Guru
There has been much discussion in the yoga world about what constitutes a “real” guru. Some say you need one to progress in yoga and others warn against surrendering fully to another. The Bhagavad Gita contains specific guidelines for discerning worthy leaders from those likely to exploit your trust.
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The role of Guru has come under scrutiny of late, with a seemingly constant barrage of scandals in the yoga world. Many serious practitioners are torn between loyalty to a lineage and speaking what is in their hearts. Where can we, as modern yogis and yoginis, find answers and guidance to this quandary? In the same place we have already been finding it: the classic texts of Yoga.
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