Journey to be a Yoga Teacher

Two years ago, the desire and interest to become a Yoga teacher is not pronounced . I keep asking myself, the desire to become a teacher because I inspire to teach one day or it just a fall back plan when I decided to quit my glamours, high flying corporate career. These thoughts have been [...]

Pranayama

Pranayama where prana means life force, and yama means to suspend or restrain. Prana is found in all forms of life, from mineral to mankind, where its force controls and regulates every part of the body. Prana is in the air, but it is not oxygen. Food, water and air are only the media through [...]

Yoga Asana and Scoliosis

Scoliosis is an excessive sideways curvature of the human spine. My sister, daughter and myself all have a different degree of Scoliosis. Scoliosis does not inhibit our lives in any way though severe scoliosis impacts the quality of life, putting pressure on the heart, diminishing lung capacity, and limiting physical activity. Ever since I am [...]

Yoga for Special Kids

Will special kids able to do Yoga ? Special kids with learning and developmental disabilities. My thoughts were yoga will help these children to cultivate a sense of awareness of their own bodies, mental and emotional states. This awareness can help special needs children to navigate the daily challenges in their lives. Yoga is also [...]

Mala

Lately, the word “Mala” has been appearing whenever I did an internet search of some info on Yoga. I have never paid attention to it but it is just appearing again and again. I started to observe quite a few of my Yoga teachers wearing a chain of Mala. My mum being a staunch Taoist [...]

Concentration and Meditation

Meditation is the cessation of mental activities. When your thoughts reduce by just 20% you will experience relief and a sense of self-control – by Swami Sivananda Concentration means attending fully to one thought or object for a substantial length of time. When we are engrossed in a book, eat without thinking about work, or [...]

Chakra – Scientific or Superstitious ?

Chakra is definitely a new word in my vocabulary list. The dictionary defined Chakra as the center of spiritual power in the body. Body is the physical body. Spiritual Power is an invisible force, abundant in nature, allowing for the betterment of all. This Invisible force governances our emotional states. When our emotions are in [...]

My Yoga Journey

Building an athletic body is not my aim but I do need some form of exercise to keep my body in good conditions. Once a week of golf game is of little help and time consuming. Not motivated to spending hours on treadmill. Got bored with monotonous to and fro swimming, I kept searching for [...]

Vedic Prayer

I vaguely recalled the explanation of the prayer during the training. I have always wanted to understand and internalize the prayer that we have been chanting daily for that three weeks. As usual, if I don’t know it, it will never be a part of me. Here it is … Asatoma Sat Gamaya “Om .. [...]

Yoga and Prayer

I was searching for the prayer that was repeated throughout the three weeks of training. If I don’t understand it, I will never appreciate it, I will never master it and it will never be part of me and my life. So the search starts “Om .. Om… Om.. Om .. Asatoma Sat Gamaya —> [...]