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Chandra Namaskar- Salutations to the mother moon
Unlike Sun Salutations, which are heating and stimulating, Moon Salutations are cooling and quieting. They are used to calm the mind and draw your awareness inward. Moon Salutations are useful when energy or temperatures are high and a tranquil, quiet presence is...
Entering into the soundless sound of creation with Shanmukhi Mudra
Alignment of personal resonance with the flow of creation can be induced by daily practice. The science of alignment resonance generally has three steps: 1.- Hear your internal resonance. 2.- Hear your external resonance. 3.- Hear the cosmic resonance. 4.- Use a sound...
The Power of Focus: Understanding the Sthapani Marma and the Center of Inner Order
Human awareness is deeply influenced by where attention is directed. The simple act of focusing on a specific point in the body can elicit measurable biological responses, enhance emotional stability, and sharpen mental clarity. Ancient healing traditions recognized...
Freeing your creative Core
Your spiritual Self cannot be freed unless you learn to feel all your feelings unless you learn to accept every part of your being, no matter how destructive it may be right now. No matter how negative, mean, vain or egotistical you may find a corner of yourself to be...
Prana and Avarta Prana
By Dr. Shishir Prasad MS (Shalya Tantra) | Associate Professor (Gurukul Kangri- Haridwar) | President NASYA-Uttarakhand Avarta marma is one of the Shirogata marmas, which are located in the head and neck region. It is a vital marma having its relationship with the...
7 ways to reclaim the pleasure of creativity
Creativity is the most fundamental force in the human impulse. It can take many forms like conquering, reproduction, communication, exchange of information, inner passion or fundamentally the partnership with the order of creation. You are creative because you are a...
Prana and Phana Marma
In Ayurvedic medicine, marma points are anatomical locations in your body where a concentration of life energy exists. Marma points are said to contain the three doshas: Vata (air and space), kapha (earth and water), pitta (fire and water) a Marma point is a junction...
Generosity Without ego
Good and loving acts are a virtue, but being identified with those acts easily becomes a vice. In truth, you are not a good or bad person, you are spirit itself. And although spirit usually gets associated with the good, it is actually far beyond being relatively good...
Herbs and meditation
Supplementing your body with nerve tonics is a way to keep stress at bay and induce depths in your meditation practice. I am always reluctant to suggest single herbs as neuro tonics. Instead, I do prefer to work with formulas that at least have three herbs. Formulas...
Four tips to innovate your life
If you have ideas but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative. Entering into an uplifted space requires the renunciation of pain, negativity and powerlessness. Entering into a positive frame of being is difficult because we are used to enquiring about...
Meditation and the mental channel
Ayurveda provides us with a very elegant and insightful perspective on the mind and the art of fostering its health—a thriving state of mental, emotional, and even spiritual well-being. With this goal in mind, Ayurveda offers several practical and powerfully useful...
Prayer to the heart
Father sky, mother earth Heart of the spirit Heart of the soul Heart of the body Grant us the entrance to your grace, forgiveness and love. Father sky, mother earth within me Embrace now the pain of all pains The separation from my heart. Produce in us, for us, the...
Balancing Winter Mental Energy
Whatever it's writing a book or cleaning the kitchen - you gather energy and begin to focus on the task. Once you get your work out of the ground, the momentum takes over, and you are on a roll. Eventually, you begin to feel tired, lose focus and slow down; then, you...
Nasya and deep meditation
"The nose is the door to consciousness and the pathway to our inner pharmacy."- Dr. Vasad Lad. I can not imagine meditating without preparing the nostrils to breathe smoothly, remove mucus accumulation in the sinus, and lubricate the third eye. With a daily anointing...