There’s one thing I’ve never regretted in my life, saying “Yes.” Even when I was scared. Even when my rational mind tried to talk me out of it. Even when friends and loved ones were worried about my decisions.
Most people when they hear what I did as a teenager alone...
If you’re like most yogis, you really enjoy how yoga makes you feel. Your skin glows. Your body looks great. And you don’t sweat the small stuff as much as you used to.
As you get more hooked on yoga, you discover your life force. You realize how deeply your breath influences your...
By the time I’d finished the last chapter of Swami Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, I’d completed my first semester of college—and I was finished with that also.
Yogananda’s stories of yogis who’d attained heightened states of consciousness and miraculous...
You will never understand the Yoga Sutras if you read them in English. The only way to really imbibe their meaning is to feel them in Sanskrit.
Each Sanskrit syllable has an emotional quality that cultures your deepest way of knowing—your intuition.
You don’t need a dictionary to know...
Spend an hour gossiping. Don’t stop talking. Then feel your energy.
Your mind will be tired. Your body will feel depleted. You’ll be exhausted.
That’s because when you speak, your life force gets expelled with each exhalation as you speak. With every word your life force gets...
I once discovered the real benefit of a daily yoga practice while sequestered in Didholi, a remote Indian village along the banks of the Narmada River. Officially I was there to conduct my doctoral dissertation research, but really I was on an inner quest of self-discovery.
I was staying with...
I once discovered the real benefit of a daily yoga practice while sequestered in Didholi, a remote Indian village along the banks of the Narmada River. Officially I was there to conduct my doctoral dissertation research, but really I was on an inner quest of self-discovery.
I was staying with...
“You’re destined to receive this reading when you are 20 years, nine months and three days old,” Chakrapani Ullal— Los Angeles’ most reputable Jyotishi (Vedic Astrologer)—began his discussion of my life’s fate.
Having provided him with only my name, birth...
