by Vanessa Ooms | Mar 1, 2019 | Meditation and Pranayama, Yoga News
What are Mala Beads? A mala is a garland of 108 beads used to count the recitation of mantras. Mala is Sanskrit for garland. Malas are used in Eastern spiritual practices, but more than 2/3’s of the world population uses prayer beads in their spiritual practice...
by Vanessa Ooms | Jan 27, 2019 | Asanas, Book Review, Yoga News
Bernie Clark has done it again. He has recently published another book explain the anatomy of yoga in ways never done before. This new release, Your Spine Your Yoga, is a comprehensive look at the spine both from both the scientific view and the yogic view. As yogis...
by Vanessa Ooms | Jan 27, 2019 | Meditation and Pranayama, Yoga News
Altars can be built anywhere, and so many things can inspire us in building one. While moving into our Mexican winter rental accommodations, I noticed 3 nails already planted in the wall in a small corner of our apartment. Last summer, we received a thank you gift of...
by Vanessa Ooms | Dec 12, 2018 | Meditation and Pranayama, Musings From Mugs, Yoga News
My teacher Hari taught me this meditation, which is meant to help us find harmony in prakriti. Prakriti is nature, or all of the manifested Universe, which is subject to the effects of the three gunas. The gunas are the three potential qualities found in everything...
by Vanessa Ooms | Nov 6, 2018 | Yoga News, Yoga Philosophy
Wisdom is not prominent in our time, which more values knowledge and information. Only very recently, perhaps because we are beginning to recognize the shortcomings of knowledge, has wisdom become an object of scientific (psychological) curiosity and investigation....
by Vanessa Ooms | Nov 6, 2018 | Asanas, Yoga News
Joshua Dueck teaches adaptable yoga. He was a freestyle skier and coach before he broke his back on a ski jump. Since then he has become a Gold and Silver medalist in several Paralympic games. He decided he wanted to become a certified yoga teacher, and after his...
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