3 Dec
2013
OTHER POSTS
Ujjayi Pranayama
What is Ujjayi Pranayama? (also referred to as Ujjayi breath) Many beginner students often ask, “What is this strange Ujjayi Pranayama breathing technique?” As a beginning yoga practitioner, it might seem odd that some of your fellow students sound like Darth Vader while they’re practicing. Here’s the explanation: In Sanskirt, the word ujjayi means victory. Ujjayi or victory […]
Malcolm Gladwell Defending the 10,000 Hour Rule
Gladwell and his “10,000 hour rule” from the book Outliers has been questioned by David Epstein in his new book The Sports Gene. Epstein says the study that’s the basis for Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule is flawed, the assertion that practice matters is meaningless, and your biological setup determines how much practice you need to put into a task to […]
Mindfulness Meditation
Liz Kulze writes about Mindfulness Meditation in The Atlantic: In a practical sense, “sitting” is really all there is to the meditation aspect of mindfulness meditation. For anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour (or more) each day, whether alone or with a group, you sit in a quiet place with your eyes closed, focusing on […]
7/17 Quote: Ekhart Tolle
“Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ and find that there is no death. Awareness is the power that is concealed […]