I get asked a lot what the best nutrition practice is for yogis, and what type of diet a yogi should adopt. What might seem like a pretty straightforward question is actually more complex than you might think. When we talk about nutrition from a yogic perspective, there is a lot more at play than simply looking at the nutritional content of our food. While that is important and fuelling your body properly for practice is imperative to preventing injury, for the purpose of this blog post I’m referring to the energetic aspect of our nutrition. I’m talking about the dilemma that plagues many Yogis: To eat meat, or not too eat meat, that is the question. It’s a pretty loaded question. But over and over I’ve heard the same thing from many practitioners – after practicing for long enough, at some point, they just don’t feel good about eating meat or animal products anymore. I typically struggle to comment on this because I’ve found that when it comes to being vegan/vegetar...

The Wheel of Awareness is a useful tool I’ve developed over many years to help expand the container of consciousness. I’ve offered the Wheel to thousands of individuals around the world, and it’s proven to be a practice that can help people develop more well-being in both their inner and interpersonal lives. The Wheel practice is based on simple steps that are easy to learn and then apply in your everyday experiences. The Wheel is a very useful visual metaphor for the way the mind works. The concept came to me one day as I stood looking down at a circular table in my office. The tabletop consists of a clear glass center surrounded by a wooden outer rim. It occurred to me that our awareness could be seen as lying at the center of a circle—a hub, if you will—from which, at any given moment, we can choose to focus on a wide array of thoughts, images, feelings, and sensations circling us on the rim. In other words, what we could be aware of could be represented on the wooden rim; t...

6 महीने तक नियम से सुबह शाम आधा घंटा प्राणायाम को परहेजों के साथ करने से निश्चित रूप से हर खतरनाक से खतरनाक बीमारी में भी आराम मिलते देखा गया है ! प्राण स्वस्थ हो तो शरीर को कोई भी बीमारी छू नहीं सकती है ! सिर्फ एक मणिपुर चक्र के ही जागने भर से शरीर के सभी रोगों का नाश होने लगता है जबकि भारतीय हिन्दू धर्म ग्रन्थों में बहुत से ऐसे अद्भुत योग, आसन व प्राणायाम का वर्णन है जो एक साथ कई चक्रों को जगाते हैं जिनसे पूरा शरीर ही एकदम स्वस्थ और दिव्य होने लगता है | प्राणस्य आयाम: इत प्राणायाम’। ”श्वासप्रश्वासयो गतिविच्छेद: प्राणायाम”- (यो.सू.2/49) अर्थात प्राण की स्वाभाविक गति श्वास-प्रश्वास को रोकना प्राणायाम (Pranayama) है। सामान्य भाषा में जिस क्रिया से हम श्वास लेने की प्रक्रिया को नियंत्रित करते हैं उसे प्राणायाम (pranayam) कहते हैं। प्राणायाम से मन-मस्तिष्क की सफाई की जाती है। हमारी इंद्रियों द्वारा उत्पन्न दोष प्राणायाम से दूर हो जाते हैं। कहने का मतलब यह है कि प्राणायाम करने से हमारे मन और मस्तिष्क में आने वाले बुरे विचार समाप्त हो जाते हैं और मन में शांति का ...