Why Yoga is the Perfect Exercise for Corporate Professionals

BNP Paribas Corporate Yoga Workshop
Did you know, an estimated 72% of corporate professionals are prone to heart disease? The punishing working hours, shift work, long commutes, lack of physical activity, and poor diets mean that cardiovascular disease is a common ailment among busy corporate professionals. Eating junk food, not getting enough sleep, and being overweight are known risk factors in not just heart ...
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How Yoga Can Help Us Deal with Difficult Emotions

yoga for difficult emotions
While I have been a yoga teacher for many years, I have been a disease-care therapist for several years as well. This is because I have found therapy to be like an extension of the yogic practice. I feel blessed to have been able to not only help my yoga students become fitter, but also those who attend my therapy and counselling sessions to become less stressed, better adjust...
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Benefits of Viparita Karani or Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose

Viparita Karani or legs up the wall pose
We think of yoga as something active, where the body is in motion and we position the body and limbs in various different ways. While movement is a major part of yoga, there are certain positions that do not really need us to do anything active or move much. For instance, shavasana or the corpse pose requires no movements to be made, however, it has a host of benefits. Similar...
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Are You Ready for Advanced Yoga & Why It Doesn’t Matter

advanced yoga class
Sometimes a student at my yoga class may ask me this – am I ready for an advanced class? Do you think I am ready for more demanding yoga postures? This is a question that I answer based on what I see of my student’s progress as well on their own assessments and fitness goals. Let us speak today advanced yoga classes, what they entail, readiness for them, and why, in the end, i...
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The Yoga Sutras – Ashtanga or the Eight Elements of Practice

Ashtanga - 8 limbs of Yoga
These days, Patanjali is a household name because of the consumer goods and food products made by the company of the same name. However Sage Patanjali is actually an important figure of Indian history. He was a sage, philosopher and writer of several treatises that remain relevant today. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is an ancient text that forms the basis for the yoga that we ...
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Yoga Central Turns 8! Time to Partyyyy…

Yoga Central Turns 8
Yoga Central completed 8 years in September 2022, and some of the students came together to celebrate. The party was a blast, and we truly missed the ones who couldn't make it. While every class sees all the students rushing out once it's over to get on with their days, the party gave us all an opportunity to get to know each other well, and bond at a higher level. Stud...
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Yoga Mudra – What Is It, Types of Yoga Mudras & Their Benefits

Yoga Mudras
The word Mudra lends itself to many meanings depending upon the context that it is used in: dance, finance, religion, sculpture, communication and of course, yoga. We often think of yoga as a series of physical exercise. However, as I always say, it is a mind-body system that encompasses physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. The concept of yoga mudra is a part of the yogic...
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Kriya Yoga: How to Perform & Benefits of Yogic Kriyas.

Sutra Neti Kriya
We often hear the term Yogic Kriya or Kriya Yoga – this is often mistaken to be just another form of yoga postures or aasans developed by prominent yoga gurus, but this is not so. Yoga Kriya refers to a centuries old system comprised of physical and spiritual systems of kriya or action, not necessarily aasans or physical exercises. Today, let us explore what is kriyas in yoga,...
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Why Developing the Drishta (Drishtu) Attitude Is Important

Drishta (drishtu) attitude
As we all know, yoga isn't just a set of physical exercises but more of a whole system for living life. Yoga directs us to stay fit with the help of exercises, breathing exercises and healthy eating. Not only that, we are also prescribed meditation and the development of certain yogic attitudes for better mental wellbeing. There is the concept of Ahimsa that requires us to cul...
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Fear vs. Faith – How to Banish Fear by Creating Faith

Fear vs Faith
Fear is something that I have noticed in many of the people who approach me for yoga therapy and counselling. It may be an unarticulated fear. People often don’t even realise that they have all these fears, but are nevertheless inhibited and limited by them. It may be the fear of change, of the unknown, of taking a chance, of failure, and strangely, even the fear of success. W...
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