It is said that all stress arises from within, and all disease originates from a state of inner disharmony. Meditation, a scientific technique that enables you to take control of your own mind, releases stress and produces deep rest— thereby activating the body’s own healing forces and significantly improving our ...

Meditate on your feelings to get calm, grounded, and healthy. Our emotions can hold us hostage when their stormy winds of intensity and disharmony blow through the body. For example, when you’re angry, your belly can tighten, your heart might pound, and agitating thoughts can plague you for minutes, hours, or ...

To get the most from meditation, find a space in your home, make it your own, and practice at roughly the same time and in the same place every day. A regular practice of meditation brings many benefits for our physical and mental wellbeing, not to mention our spiritual growth. Occasional ...

At the beginning, your mind needs to hold on to something because it cannot stop all thoughts from entering. The best strategy in meditation is to focus on a chosen thought, image or action, and whenever you get distracted by other thoughts, gently pull the mind back to your chosen ...

True tranquillity can be yours when you practice pratyahara and draw your senses inward One early morning I was practicing at my usual studio with some fellow Ashtanga yogis, when a man from out of town put his mat down beside mine. We were all there for the self-directed Ashtanga Yoga ...

How to find happiness, even in your darkest hour Like the ability to learn a language or love another human being, the ability to feel joy is something we’re all born with. And perhaps surprisingly, we can feel joy independent of whatever else we’re experiencing, even amidst intense physical or psychological ...

Om, shanti, shanti, shanti Om, peace, peace, peace This mantra is an invocation of peace, often repeated at the end of a session of practice. It has two functions. First, it affirms that peace is available to us at any moment that we choose to tune in to it. Second, repeating this ...

Balance, Health & Harmony “As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, states the Upanishads, the ancient Hindu philosophical texts, illuminating that whatever is around us is a reflection of what is inside us. About 2,600 years ago, the father of yoga, sage Patanjali, explained in his seminal work, The Yoga ...

Meditation is a mind-set and a way of life, not just a technique or a practice. This ancient, scientific, nonreligious process gives you wisdom to train your mind to be positive, peaceful and powerful. There are three key aspects of meditation—understanding, training and mastering the mind. This is because the ...

Want to connect to your core quickly? Try this third-chakra meditation We all have those days where we feel pulled in a thousand directions—that’s life in the modern world, after all. But it can sometimes shift you off center and drain you of your own essential power. If this is the ...

How setting the right intention can help you stick with a meditation practice As with every journey in life, every meditation session and practice is better when it begins with an intention. Sankalpas, as intentions are known in yoga, are your heartfelt, intuitively sensed attitudes that unfold within you over time. ...