OTHER POSTS
A quote about the 3rd niyama, tapas
Tapas is a practice of balanced austerity, sacrifice, discipline. Tapas means “heat” or “fire.” Go through the heat and accept it – invite it in. The fire brings transformation. If you are not in stillness, you are craving or having aversion. Transformation happens through the fire – burn off some layers and emerge as something new – […]
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is…living…with love, grace and gratitude.”
~Denis Waitley
Investing and Yoga
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324798904578529302166205428.html?mod=us_most_pop_newsreel “Everything is impermanent, especially the market’s level,” says Mr. Kessel “He is one of a breed of financial advisers who are taking yoga and meditation out of the ashram and putting them into Excel spreadsheets. The values and teachings of these Eastern-inspired traditions, proponents say, impart a special kind of financial wisdom that, among […]
Could BKS Iyengar Win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Could B.K.S. Iyengar win the Nobel Peace Prize? He should, says a novelist and correspondent for Bloomberg’s World View in New Delhi as well as the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States who have initiated a worldwide effort to nominate him. But what does yoga have to do with peace, anyway? According to Chandrahas Choudhury, who […]