We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping. Or at least we should. The average adult needs seven to eight hours of sleep every day and children need even more. If we don’t get that amount of sleep, the body and mind cannot rejuvenate and repair. Inadequate or poor quality sleep causes problems with focus and memory, weakens immunity, and raises risk of many life-threatenin...
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Information Overload – How It Hampers Us & How Yoga Can Help
Consider how much information we are
bombarded with each day: from the arrival of the newspaper in the morning to
the news from dozens of TV news channels; social media inputs, the headline
notifications on our handheld devices beeping at us every few minutes… it can
all be quite overwhelming. We cannot switch it all off; after all we are social
beings who have to keep in touc...
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Importance of Correct Breathing Through Life
The first breath we take when we are born is a sign of life. Breathing is the first thing we do when born and the last thing we do before we die. Clearly breathing is one of the most important things we do, if not the most important thing we do to stay alive. It is breathing that provides vital oxygen to every cell of the body, so breathing is important at a cellular level. In...
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Anitya Bhavana in Yoga – Recognizing Impermanence
As I have said frequently via this blog, I believe that the practice of yoga should involve the mind and the body; where on the one hand we work towards a fitter body, on the other we try to improve as a person by broadening the mind, attaining clarity of thought and learning empathy. Many spiritual gurus also call Yoga Darshan Shastra; the philosophy to help with what the mi...
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