Becky Blab

My journey to/through Isha Yoga

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Six months post-Yoga Marga

March 11th, 2010 · No Comments

It’s been six months since completing the Yoga Marga program at Isha’s Rejuvenation Center (or Rejuvy, as I call it). I have gained immensely from this program: more stamina, focus, acceptance of my physical limitations. Not to mention that I’ve hardly been sick. I’m used to the look of shock when people see me (”Not [...]

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Tags: empowerment · health & well-being · me · spirituality

“If you want your wife to stop arguing with you…”

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments

“…send her to Inner Engineering!”–random comment to me when I said I was much less confrontational after attending the program.
Please take a few minutes to view this video on “Conquering Negative Emotions and Anger”

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Celebrating Women’s Day by bringing back the Sacred Feminine

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments

This blog used to be saturated with Feminism, women’s issues, gender theories. In honor of Women’s Day, I’m revisiting it in a new light.
The day’s articles mostly look at women’s status and what can be done to improve it; in India, the big issue is the Women’s Reservation Bill. Though many (including me) decry the [...]

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Research discovers meditation thickens brain

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Just this week a paper was published in the American Psychological Association Journal, Emotion, regarding a study conducted by researchers in Montreal Canada. Joshua Grant, the lead researcher, described the way in which they measured the brain thickness of 17 Zen meditators and 18 non-meditators using MRI scans. They examined in particular specific areas of the brain [...]

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Having thoughts about death: two bus rides I can’t forget

March 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Outbound journey:
Yesterday, I rushed to catch the 11 am bus to Delhi to attend the Sathsang with Sadhguru. As I settle into my seat, I get a call that it might be called off because of a recent death from a car accident. It momentarily snaps me out of my i’m-in-a-hurry-can’t-think mode, and I get [...]

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