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This moment is life. There is no better moment to be happy: now! To be exactly in this moment, doing exactly what we are doing without worrying about the result. [We must] hold dearly every single instant, knowing that this second will never return. This moment is life. And when it passes, it dies. There [...]
Shiva as space reflects a practical Yoga Teaching; To realize peace and presence, we need to make room for space, physical space and the space of being and awareness. We learn to realize space through a physical experience, every time we create space in our joints, letting go tension and compression, before entering a pose. This [...]
An Urban warrior is ever ever patient with steadfastness of eternity. He is never in a hurry nor requires quick results. He bides his time as all time belongs to him. He knows how to wait and can act with great force when the appropriate and most efficacious moment for action arises. The value of [...]
Seeing the yoga posture as it is In order to see the asana as it is, grounding our awareness in ourselves, cannot interfere with or force the body and mind in reaching the pose. The body breaths out, and we feel it. The body breaths in, and we feel it. What do we feel? We [...]
A man once told Buddha, "I want happiness." The Buddha replied, "First remove 'I', that's identification, Ego. Then remove 'want', that's desire. And now all you're left with is happiness. Yoga should be a tool to free the mind from ‘I want’ to rediscover that we’re happiness. Otherwise, we are drowning in identification for all time. [...]
Whenever in our daily yoga practice or Yoga teaching we are engaged in thinking, we are not aware. We forget ourself. Awareness and forgetting ourself are opposites. Let’s come back to awareness of body and mind. The way to begin the yoga practice and teaching is to become aware of oneself. In Odaka Yoga® there [...]
In Yoga, often what we tend to do is identify with pose as form. But Yoga is content not form. Yoga is essence not form. Forms are finite, essence is infinite. Beyond the pose, out of our identification of ourselves with the posture, we have to be able to discover the fullness of ourselves, the [...]
True transformation in a yoga practice comes from doing the poses we resist, while at the same time working to change the mind about the experience photo by Sigismondi Photography
Over thinking and over analysing separates the mind from the body. There is a beautiful concept in the Yoga Sutras, Parinamavada, the understanding that constant change is an inherent part of the cause and effect nature of life. To step into Parinamavada we use the concept of moving from the centre (tanden), expressing circular movements. [...]
Trust your intuition it never lies! As a culture, we have learned to believe that rationality is what should prevail when making decisions. But what of that "inner voice", that gut feeling, that little something instinctual from within that tell us how we feel beneath those layers of logic? How To Listen, Trust and Follow [...]
