Backbend Bible

Outstanding pictorial & textual guide to beginning & advanced asana backbends: http://www.mryoga.com/backbends Benefits of backbends: Improves spinal flexibility and strength creating better posture, stimulates the central nervous system, abdominal organs and aids in digestion, tones the adrenal glands, kidney, pancreas and liver thyroid gland, abdominal organs and lungs, stretches the chest, lungs, upper and lower […]

Life is best lived (short video)

Sri K Pattabhi Jois

Some profound thoughts from Pattabhi Jois via Victoria’s blog: “Since his first arrival in Mysore he went through exceeding difficulties. He knew neither friends nor relatives in the town, and was forced to beg for food during his first few years of staying there.” “ ..the primary steps are first to cleanse the body of its physical […]

Francis kisses, holds man with neurofibromatosis

A series of photos of Pope Francis embracing a man with neurofibromatosis (a condition long associated with the ‘Elephant Man’ Joseph Carey Merrick) has captured the imagine of a global audience. We are all one.