Attentive Asana: Integrity
integrity (Photo credit: glsims99) Integrity is a word that I have always felt a strong resonation with. (That doesn’t mean …
Category Archives: pranayama
Kapalabhati and Bhastrika
Kapalabhati and Bhastrika pranayama are two types of yogic breath (prana) practices. They are similar in execution, focus, and benefit, with a …
Five Things Friday: Happiness is Hard!
…5 ways yoga and meditative practices can change negativity bias Rick Hanson, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: …
Setting Sankalpa
Sankalpa is Sanskrit for “will, determination, purpose.” Forming a sankalpa is to set an intention, or in the spirit of the New …
The 8 Limbs of Yoga (etc.)
Great chart and resource I recently found.
Just Be A Tree
I was recently led through a peaceful meditation by the chaplain at the eating disorder treatment hospital I’ve been at. …
Five Things Friday: Getting down to Bhakti business
5 ways I’m striving to practice Bhakti yoga: 1. Prayer. On my knees, ritual style. After meditation, asana practice, in the …
Hopelessly Devoted
“Don’t look backward, don’t look forward, look up.” In the midst of this nasty relapse, going on 5 months now …
Five Things Friday: Yoga Things
Yoga outlines five sheaths, or koshas, that encompass our being. These layers, according to Shiva Rea, are a map that …
Snapshot Sunday: Memorial Meditations
Image by Rick Wickman, my cousin. Those Now Gone ©2002 Roger W. Hancock Fallen Servicemen, for country fought; liberty, freedom, …
