Blog – Wisdom For The Journey
When You Want One Place to Learn
Pragalbha Doshi had just about given up on Yoga trainings. After all, she had been a Yoga student and practitioner for more than 20 years. She was experienced, knowledgeable and doing individual studies on topics like the Yogasūtra. She didn’t realize she was still...
Bending Over Backwards
Bending Over Backwards - Lessons of Failure from a Yogi I’m lying on the floor, face up. My back is extended over a thick, hard bolster and my head and neck hang off the end. I can only see the wall behind, upside down. The bolster pushes me upward, forcing me into a...
Finding, Trusting & Following Your Own Destiny
Finding, Trusting & Following Your Own Destiny Every Thursday evening for the past two and a half years, I’ve been doing something wonderful and powerful in my life. I’ve been leading a live online class on the Bhagavad Gītā. Line by line, we’ve discussed how...
Yoga Philosophy: Why are the Ancient Texts of Yoga Important?
YOGA'S FOUNDATIONAL TEXTS The essential principles of Yoga as a practice, and a way of life, can be found in these three main texts: The Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and The Hatha Yoga Paradipika. The latter two especially provide practical teachings...
Who’s Turning Your Crank?
Yoga and meditation are different things to different people. They can be tools to focus the mind and body. They can be a spiritual expression and a way to ground yourself. Yoga can just be a physical exertion that moves the body and stretches the muscles. However, if...
Commitment to Values
2022 January Update: Victoria has stepped down as the Yoga Well Institute’s Student Liasion. For support navigating relationship issues with your mentor, mentees, or Viniyoga community, please fill out this Request Form and one of our Student Liaisons will follow up...
Honoring our Teacher
Honoring our Teacher On June 21st, Mr. TKV Desikachar would have been 80 years old. On the weekend of his birthday, sixteen personal students of Mr. Desikachar gathered in Orange, France to reflect. Below is the statement from the weekend. How is the Spirit of Yoga...
Breathe Yoga, Breathe Life
While significantly playing our roles on earth …parent, son/daughter, employee/employer, relator/related in every/any possible way …somewhere we are always trying to connect with the individual in us. We are trying to make sense of what brings us pain and joy. To make...
Yoga Teacher Training is Excellent for Healthcare workers
Yoga Well Institute's Foundations of Yoga Therapy 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training program is a perfect training for anyone in the healthcare industry. This training is great for all kinds of alternative healthcare providers, psychologists, psychotherapists, nurses,...
A therapeutically oriented Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga philosophy says that what you are thinking about has a lot to do with the state that you are in. The way that your body functions is symptomatic of how you are feeling. As our state changes, what we think about changes. From a yoga philosophy perspective, what...
Yoga: A Science of Experience.
Traditionally, yoga is primarily a systematized exploration of perception, how it works, how it doesn’t work, why, and what to do about what’s not working. Why? Because our perception determines our experience and our experience strongly influences how we act and who we become.
What is Meditation from the Yoga Perspective?
In the yoga tradition, meditation is the ability to choose a concept or object to contemplate, or relate to, or interact with, and then maintain a continuously, attentive link with whatever we have chosen. Answers the question, ‘but I thought meditation was something like a trance state…