Build Vitality (Prāna) and Immunity (Agni) to Protect Yourself from Coronavirus

Immunity Against Corona VirusHow we are using yoga, meditation, and western medicine to build immunity and protect ourselves from the coronavirus. We are publishing three articles on how to maintain health and have the best chance of preventing illness during the pandemic of Covid-19. The first article (this article) will discuss the two best yoga meditations to build […]

Prana and Pranic Healing – Master Your Life Force – Prana {Part 2}

Prana is the life force, and life feeds on life. The main function of prana is to maintain itself, to keep you alive. To generate prana in your body you need to extract energy from the world, for example in the form of food, water, and oxygen, and use this energy to generate more energy […]

Prana and Pranic Healing – Master Your Life Force – Prana {Part 1}

Prana Mastering Life forcePrana is the energy at the basis of all creation. Everything that exists, animate and inanimate, is a manifestation of prana in one form or another. At the macrocosmic level, prana is called Maha Shakti, which means ‘great power’ (maha = great, shakti = power). Within the microcosm of living beings, Maha Shakti manifests as [...]

How Stress Wrecks Your Brain and What To Do About It

Did you know that chronic, unresolved stress can create an imbalance between the self-aware, rational, decision making, and problem-solving parts of your brain (the pre-frontal cortex) and the emotion and memory controlling parts of your brain (the amygdala and hippocampus)? Long-term (chronic) stress alters your thinking, emotion, and behavior and over time changes the size, [...]

Tantra, the Science of Self–Transformation and Self–Realization

Tantra is a system of self developmentTantra is the ancient empirical philosophy and science of liberating energy in order to expand consciousness and realize one’s inherent spiritual power. Consciousness and energy are united and made available for health, mental peace, emotional resilience, creativity and spiritual realization. Tantra is a practical, empirical and experiential science that lights the torch and shows the […]

The Aim of Yoga Psychotherapy

The three main aims of Yoga Psychotherapy are self-awareness, spontaneity, and intimacy. People come to Yoga Psychotherapy to deal with various issues, from seeking relief from anxiety, pain, and illness, to finding authentic spiritual meaning.   The yoga path The aim of yoga (the word means union or connection) is to unite individual consciousness with cosmic consciousness, […]

Yoga Psychology and Psychotherapy – Theory and Practice

Yoga psychology is the theoretical basis for yoga psychotherapy. Yoga psychotherapy plays a vital role in the successful treatment and management of physical, psychological and spiritual conditions. When combined with Western psychotherapeutic approaches it creates a powerful holistic approach to long-term healing. One of the greatest things about yoga psychology and psychotherapy is that they […]

Yoga and Meditation Therapeutic Relationship

My medical practice is based on a holistic, mind-body medicine and yoga therapy approach. This is a relationship-centered approach that creates a foundation for a healing partnership. The aim is to create a therapeutic relationship, one that takes the time required to examine not just the illness, the negatives, but also to take into consideration […]

Mindfulness and Antar Mouna Meditation

Meditation has two main aims, the cultivation of witness consciousness, and the evolution of your body, mind and spirit. The essential key to success in meditation is the cultivation of witness consciousness, your own self-awareness. When you develop the witness, it empowers your ability to know who you are, both as an individual living in […]

Improve Your Digestive System – Balance Agni

When we improve our digestive strength we improve our overall health, our immunity and mental clarity. This is why Ayurveda and yoga-tantra place great emphasis on proper diet and the maintenance of digestive fire (agni). Doing so prevents and treats disease and develops awareness. Digestive fire (agni) – the fundamental principle of health The fundamental principle […]

Awakening the Spiritual Spine

The chakras lie in the central nervous system (the brain and spine), which controls all the functions of the body and mind. Chakra meditations focus awareness onto the spine at specific areas where the controlling points for the chakras lie. The spine is the axis of your being The embryo in the womb first creates […]

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