Ed Dailey has been a nurse for more than 20 years, and has been instrumental in introducing yoga and integrative therapy in hospitals and health centers in the United States. Ed, who will be in Singapore this September, shares his connection and love for yoga with YJSG. Source: Yoga Journal Singapore Why ...

Vikas Malkani is perhaps the only meditation guru in the world who teaches mindfulness with a flipchart and colorful markers. Maybe that’s why he’s often referred to as a ‘Wisdom Coach’. His sessions are loaded with witty wisdom stories, anecdotes and laughter, enough to make any stressed mind feeling lightheaded, ...

Imagine a place where you are treated like royalty regardless of the neighborhood you grew up in; where you are encouraged to dream big and to take action to make such dreams a reality; an environment where the only requirement is to be yourself and where others celebrate you for ...

Jawed Ashraf is an inherently calm gentleman who finds yoga rejuvenating, does regular pranayama and swears by his most favorite meditative space — the tennis court! The former High Commissioner of India in Singapore recalls the time when India’s Prime Minister convinced the United Nations to declare June 21, the summer ...

I am completely paralyzed from the chest down. On a purely physical level, I have no sensation below my chest. Instead, I experience a resounding silence. But when I go deeper into that silence, into the parts of me that I cannot directly feel or control, I discover that my ...

On February 2, 2006, Anita Moorjani was to die. She had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and her cancer had spread to many parts of her body in the last four years, and she had gone into coma. The doctors told her husband and family to prepare for her funeral as her organs ...

Meet Herna Mohari, a single mother and school teacher, who talks about how yoga sorted her low self-esteem, lifted her spirits and changed her life. Photo Credit: The Yoga Co, Singapore How did yoga enter your life? It was a Yoga Journal magazine on the coffee table of a yoga studio in ...

Wise men say that a journey of a lifetime begins with a single step, or many small steps. On reflection, had I not taken those steps, my life today would be a different story. Every small piece in the jigsaw puzzle called “life”, however annoying it may seem at the moment, ...

How a yoga practitioner’s search for the right mat turned him into an entrepreneur. By Kavita Chandran  Ritesh Kalati is the founder of Rumi Earth, a company that makes consciously crafted mats and props for yoga lovers. His Earth Mat was born out of his quest for a yoga mat with a ...

Yoga teacher Briohny Smyth is a former child pop star from Thailand who found solace in yoga after work pressure and stress at a tender age bogged her down—she had a platinum album at 13! Today she lives in Los Angeles, is a jetsetter and mother of two, and teaches yoga ...

Patanjali defined yoga as Chitta Vritti Nirodha, which literally means that if you still the modifications and activity of the mind, you are in yoga. Everything has become one in your consciousness. By Sadhguru, Isha Foundation We may be pursuing many things in our lives and going through processes that we call ...