Yearly Archives: 2018

We were on our early morning silent walking meditation and had walked to the far end of the beach where an actual river flows into the Arabian Sea. I verbally walked each retreat participant through the River into the Sea meditation and left them to decide where they physically wanted to be to do the…

Day 21 of 21 Days of Sutras to Heal Your Soul This has been a short visit to some of the Sutras of Patanjali. Thank you for joining me on this 21-day journey. The intention has been to provide more insights into the science of yoga. In sutras 1:2, Patanjali  wrote: “Yogas chitta vritti norodah”…

Day 20 Sutras 2:54 When the senses withdraw themselves from [and disregard] the objects around them and imitate, as it were, the nature of the mind stuff, this is pratyahara. Pratyahara is the 5th limb of yoga and involves restraining the five senses. When the senses are focused outside, they constantly transfer messages to the…

Day 19 Sutras 2:50 The modification of the life-breath are either external, internal or stationary. They are to be regulated by space, time and number and are either long or short. Prana is very powerful energy and the body needs to be prepared for this using asana. Patanjali says that there are three types of…