Category: Yoga Articles

We’ve known for a while now that the world is going through some major changes. All of us are being forced to look at the world in a different way. Recently, my hometown of Haverhill, Massachusetts was deeply affected by torrential rainfall causing the Merrimack River to overflow and flood many homes and businesses. People’s […]

Namadeva’s guru is Sadguru Sant Keshavadas (1934- 1997) and he follows lineage holder Guru Rama Mata, Sant Keshavadas’ widow. Through his guru and over the last 35 years Namadeva has spent time with and/or been blessed by Swami Satchidananda, Swami Vishnu Devananda, Swami Chidananda, Jagadguru Jayandra Saraswati and Jagadguru Vijayendra Saraswati (Kanchi Math), Jagadguru of […]

Have you ever wondered why you sometimes wake up and sail through your day without any sense of stress, frustration or angst – while on another day stress and angst seem to be the themes of your existence? Is it in the water? Are we just the victim of random events that propel us without […]

There are several reasons why you may like to hop onto the Yoga bandwagon. The reasons are many; the goal ultimately the same (with or without your conscious knowing). Whether you are looking at Yoga as a tool for physical fitness, or as an aid to disease management or even for mental peace and ultimate […]

Trataka is a wonderful practice for everyone and especially for the aspirant of meditation. It is actually classified as a cleansing practice in Yoga. What it is? To put it briefly, Trataka – also called Yogic gazing – is a practice where the gaze is fixed on an object for some time and then that […]

Yoga has several parts- asana, pranayama and shatkarma. Asanas (postures) and Pranayama (breathing techniques) are quite popular and widely practiced but today only a few people practice Shatkarmas (Yoga cleansing practices). Shatkarmas according to hatha yoga are the six yogic cleansing processes of the body- Neti, Basti, Tratak, Kapalabhati, and Nauli. These kriyas (processes) clean […]

It’s great when we can escape to a full hour of yoga, be it in a class or at home in front of a video, but let’s face it, that’s not always possible. Enter Yoga in the Office, a series of simple but effective suggested positions to help stretch the wrists, neck, shoulders, back and […]

To say that this issue was inspired by the thousands of the ‘Health and Yoga’ family who have benefited amazingly from the detox technique of jalaneti, would truly be an understatement. With the never-ending stories of forgotten sinus, allergy and headache problems, I just had to make you aware of this phenomenal practice. What is […]

Almost ALL mind-body schools and cults have used this single mind-detoxification technique in some form or the other – with dramatic results!! More importantly, it is the ONLY technique used exclusively for mind purification among all the Yoga cleansing routines. It is called cleansing breath or “kapalbhati” in Sanskrit. So we all know that “Laughter […]