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Yoga is non-religious…?!

April 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Thanks Jagga for posting this article, Bending yoga to fit their worship needs! Many Christian and Jewish yogis are incorporating prayer and religious teachings into the practice. ‘It allows us to blur the line between the physical and the spiritual,’ one leader says. Interesting how they are co-opting yoga to suit their beliefs. Isn’t the pursuit [...]

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Tags: health & well-being · human development · religion

“Unfortunately, when you utter the word ‘yoga’ in the West, people always think of impossible physical postures.”

March 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments

Actually among the 2000-and-odd sutras Patanjali wrote, only one sutra, which contains only five words, is dedicated for the physical postures. But today, in the Western part of the world, when you utter the word “yoga,” people think it is just that. It is a miniscule of yoga. Another excerpt from Sadhguru’s Sacred Awakening Series [...]

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Tags: empowerment · health & well-being · human development · Isha US · spirituality

Mahashivarathri 2010, 12 Feb

February 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Please join us at the center, via live webcast at http://yaksha.info/ or on the Aastha channel (Sky 807 in the UK) for this night-long festival which goes from 6pm to 6am, 12-13 Feb. Discourses, live Q&A and meditations by Sadhguru, and performances by: Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia MIDIval PunditZ & Karsh Kale Sivamani Sounds of Isha and [...]

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Tags: miscellaneous

CMNtv Presents Reaching Out featuring The Isha Foundation

May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

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Tags: activism · health & well-being

Research on Isha Yoga

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Spatio-Temporal EEG Spectral Analysis of Shambhavi Maha Mudra Practice in Isha Yoga http://www.ishafoundation.org/news/happenings/Shambavi.pdf Abstract: An effort was made to analyze the cerebral electrical activity of nine experienced Isha Yoga practitioners by means of EEG recordings. The EEG data was recorded before and after Shambhavi Maha Mudra practice in Isha Yoga, which is considered to be [...]

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Tags: human development · spirituality