Talk

In this video, Marcel explains what Scoliosis is, and what it does to the spine.

This is a personal, honest question and answer between Anat and Ehud about meditation, chakras and lots of other things.

The old idea of a skeleton made of bones from which all other structures hang is outdated. Scientific research on fascia is showing that the biotensegrity model is much more accurate way to look at the body and at movement, and it opens a universe of possibilities.

In most of our yoga classes we focus on moving, strengthening certain muscles and adjusting the fascia of the body. In our mobility sessions we focus a little bit more on moving and trying to create as much movement/mobility as we can in one part of the body. It is important to keep in mind […]

This talk was made with Tt students in mind, but of course you are all invited to join in the conversation. We explore the basic principles of Taoism and its basic manifestations as yin & yang. A little bit of philosophy can make a huge difference in how we practice and live (at least that’s […]

Meditation is widely recognised as being beneficial and even life changing, and still so very few people actually do it. A question that always arises is why should we do it all? Yogis look at meditation slightly differently than other practitioners do, this is a short exploration of these ideas.

We all have samskaras or patterns of behaviour stored in our chakras or we developed them in this lifetime. Samskaras can be bad or good, however they will influence our lives. During meditation you can ‘discover’ certain samskaras and work on changing them. Another thing is to develop a good samskara to change bad ones, […]

Samadhi is the culmination of our efforts, when the veil of illusion falls and our consciousness expends and perceives the entire universe. It is a state of bliss, of profound love and wisdom, when yogis become aware of their immortal and perfect Self. In other words: it is indescribable and impossible to fully comprehend with […]

As we continue the explorations of the Eight Limbs of Yoga, we come into Dharana and Dhyana, In my own understanding those two work together beautifully: one is the effort that slowly calms the mind, the other is the effortless experience of that calmness. Like when learning to play an instrument, first we need the […]

The power of our senses can rule all our lives, enslaving us to everything that gives us pleasure and making us blindly run away from everything that gives us pain. Yogis teach is that learning to withdraw the power of the senses and to conserve that energy leads us to internal – spiritual – experiences […]

This is an attempt explore the possibility that chakras may not be as far-fetched as we normally think. Science gives us an entrance, but it cannot – yet – take us all the way, so some open mindedness is definitely required. It is my experience that the reward is definitely worth it, as chakra explorations […]

Pranayama is not the same as breathing exercises but they are definitely related. After exercising our nirodha on our outer life – our social behaviour with yamas and niyamas and our physical body with asana – we now fine tune our efforts and direct them to more subtle territory.

We have braced the waters of yamas and niyamas and arrived at what Patanjali calls the third limb of yoga, or the third level where we want to affect our conscious influence. As most of us know, asanas are the physical poses we do in our practice. We need to live as well as we […]

Inanimate or living? what is the difference, and why doe we use inanimate examples when we talk about the body? Does it work the same or is it inaccurate and do we need to see the body in a different way?