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Photo: Chinmay B via Unsplash, Hoysaleswara Temple, Karnataka
#Practice#Tantra#Yoga

Tantra Rediscovered: An Emic View of Its History and Practice

By Ramesh Bjonnes

One of these misconceptions is that Tantra is only about 1000 years old and that it has very little to do with the much older yogic tradition. From the emic perspective presented here, however, we have learned that Tantra may be the root source of all the yogic paths and philosophies that evolved from a rich oral tradition within Shaivism and outside Vedic society at the dawn of Indian civilization.

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Ancient and Modern Ritual: A Creative Approach to Working with Grief, Loss, and Change

By Samantha Black
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Pratipakṣa Bhāvana: Cultivating the Opposite as a Celebration of Our Humanity

By Tara Lemerise

The Future of the Yoga Teacher: Introducing A New Editorial Research Project

By Jacob Kyle
Shashi Chaturvedula yoga pose

My Yoga is the Right Yoga: and Other Outrageous Shit We Let Ourselves Believe 

By Livia Shapiro

I’m not convinced my yoga is better than your yoga because I am not in your body or your life or your circumstances or family constellation. I do not know where you come from or what makes you tick. I do not know what your body “needs”.

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Kim Weeks
#Aging #Practice #Yoga #Yoga Teacher

Fifty and Aligning

Turning fifty, with its sea waves of hormonal change, brings much new information to the mind. You can feel some brittleness emerge and the pliancy of the joints realign. You are (or, I am) less interested in the farthest and deepest reaches of a pose, for example, but rather in the intricacies of the steps of the subtler body on the way there—on the way anywhere. 

By Kim Weeks
Yoga class on rooftop. Photo by Amin Sujan.
#Modern Yoga #Yoga #Yoga Teacher

How to Keep the Yoga Class Relevant in Today’s Fitness Market 

If the yoga industry wants to thrive again, it needs to start teaching more than fitness. Fortunately, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel- all the techniques already exist within yoga’s traditions to offer a class that touches every part of our being. By offering more integrated classes that include pranayama, mantra, meditation and kriya, we can now provide a yoga experience, instead of just yoga poses.

By Chris Parkison
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#Bhagavad-Gita #Dharma #Philosophy #Yoga

The Overarching Theme of the Bhagavad-gītā

Just as each feature of cosmic order has an essential nature, cosmic order itself has an essential nature. Bringing ourselves into harmony with the essential nature of cosmic order is the way by which we can live peacefully in the world. Conversely, dissonant action relative the essential nature of cosmic order brings about chaos and destruction.

By Hari-kirtana das
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