Mantra, or sacred word, can be defined most simply as “subtle sound vibration, which through repetition aims at expanding one’s awareness or consciousness” (source). You’ll know a common example from the repetition of “om”; “om” itself is a mantra.
Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, aka Swami J, has a great series of videos about the usage of mantra [...]

A Yoga Mudra is a variation of an asana that engages the hands to bring about specific effects, the purpose of which may vary according to the sequence or flow of your practice or the goals you have set for your routine (such as healing a specific illness). Sometimes Mudras are as simple as hand [...]

Whether you’re day is mostly sedentary or always on the go, chances are you’re rough on your feet. Most of us are! We don’t realise how shoes, even the most comfortable sort, squish and constrict our feet in ways that are not conducive to yoga.
(A healthy yoga foot has, at rest, toes that are a [...]

They seem to think they can! Check out this cute little slideshow of cats, dogs, hamsters, monkeys, raccoons, lizards, and more getting in on the yoga action!

What can we learn from animals in yoga? Quite a lot - look for posts soon to come about Dog Yoga, animals in Laughter Yoga, and more!

Did you ever think you’d learn yoga from Paul McCartney of The Beatles? Well thanks to YouTube, you can! Here, Paul teaches us yoga exercises for your eyes, to improve your eye health.
Spending hour upon hour on the computer, as many of us do, our eyes tend to suffer the brunt of the work. No [...]

A very familiar face to us all, John Cleese of Monty Python, briefly explores laughter yoga in this entertaining video. It’s hard not to laugh simply at the sight of practitioners making Cleese double over in laughter!
I’ll discuss laughter yoga at another time, but for now, enjoy this introduction. And don’t miss the hidden gem [...]

Check out this highly educational video about Pranayama, including a thorough introduction to seated positions. Kavita Maharaj teaches you about the anatomical benefits of breathing practice - such as increasing lung capacity and reducing everyday scar tissue in your lungs (we all have it!), boosting metabolism, and aiding digestion. Learn some basic and advanced seated [...]

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Yoga is a series of various postures called ‘Asanas’ and breathing exercises. Each one of those Asanas and breathing exercises has been specifically designed to help a certain part of the body or a health condition.
The Cobra posture is a popular asana and it is always practiced as precedence to the Locust posture. The Sanskrit name [...]

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The “Shoulder Stand” posture is one of the most treasured asanas. Its Sanskrit name is the “Sarvanga Asana” and it is said to be a whole workout in itself as it benefits the whole body. In the Shoulder Stand posture, the whole weight of the rests on your shoulders and the neck and upper back [...]

The Sanskrit name of this asana is Salabha Asana. The Locust Posture or the Salabha Asana is a reverse posture to the Cobra Posture. The values of both of these asanas are maximized when they are done one after the other as the Cobra and the Locust Posture complement one another. The Cobra posture’s effects [...]