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2025

What is Maha Shivaratri and Why Do People Celebrate It?

Wondering what Maha Shivaratri is? Read more and discover its meaning, significance, and why millions around the world celebrate it. Learn more here. What is the significance of Maha Shivaratri ? Maha Shivaratri, meaning “The Great Night of Shiva,” is one of the most sacred festivals in India. Dedicated to Lord Shiva, this night symbolizes the victory of light over darkness, enlightenment over ignorance, and hope over despair. Celebrated by millions around the world, it’s

2025

What is Kriya Yoga: Technique and Benefits

Updated on 09.09.2025 What is Kriya Yoga? Kriya Yoga is an ancient science, yet it is so relevant and necessary today. The word kriya actually means mental activity. In kriya you are not trying to quieten the mind or curb mental fluctuations like in many meditation practices, but rather purposely create activity in the mind which leads to an awakening in consciousness. Kriya yoga practices enable us to understand and overcome our physical and mental

2025

How to Practice Yoga for Flexibility: Best Poses

There are many reasons why people practice yoga. Often people wish to increase their flexibility, but what does that mean? Increased flexibility of the body means the muscles are able to relax and stretch to such an extent that the joints and body parts they are attached to have a greater range of movement. The muscles also need to be toned enough to maintain the stability of the base of the posture and safeguard the

2025

What are Chakras and How to Unblock Each of Them?

What are chakras and why are they important? According to yoga, we are much more than the physical body. Apart from the physical body that we know through the five senses, we also have an energy body, a mental body and a psychic body. Chakras are locations where flows of energy and consciousness converge and create a vortex, like a whirlpool of energy. This gives the impression of a whirling sensation or a wheel turning.

2025

Satyanandashram Hellas: Everything You Should Know

Living a yogic lifestyle enables us to expand our awareness in our daily life. We live more consciously. As our awareness increases, we can manage our thoughts and emotions and we become wiser, (not intelligent). We connect with the innate wisdom within, like our innate happiness. Living with awareness gives meaning and fulfilment to our lives. It spiritualises our life.

2024

Top 10 Beginner Yoga Poses

In the System Satyananda Yoga, beginners are encouraged to tailor the frequency of their practice to their individual capacity, lifestyle and goals. The approach emphasizes a systematic and gentle progression prioritizing consistency over intensity. Practicing with awareness is essential as well as focusing on coordinating movements with breath while staying present and mindful of bodily sensations to deepen the connection between body and mind. Beginners are advised to progress gradually under proper guidance. Are there

2024

What is Mindfulness Meditation and How to Get Started?

All spiritual traditions encourage practitioners to have periods of time where they withdraw from the noise and distraction of worldly activity and spend some time in quietude, looking inwards. With the pace of modern life, away from nature and natural biorhythms, practices that help in this direction are becoming all the more important and popular. Over the last century, esoteric systems from the East were propagated in the West by different masters from varying traditions.

2024

Bhramari Pranayama: Technique and Health Benefits

Bhramari (humming bee breath) is a powerful tranquilizing pranayama technique that involves making a deep, low-pitched humming sound similar to the buzzing sound of a bee. It is especially beneficial for calming the mind, reducing stress, and improving both physical and mental health. Common Mistakes to Avoid: Tightness in the jaw: The jaw should remain relaxed, with the lips gently closed and teeth slightly apart. A tense jaw can interfere with the smooth flow of

2024

What is a Mantra: Meaning, Rules and Texts

Updated on: 12.02.2025 What is a mantra? The word mantra is used in contemporary culture even to the point of being haphazard. Despite its esoteric nature, it has become a household name in English. Originating from the ancient Sanskrit language, ‘mantra’ indicates a sound vibration or a combination of vibrations. These sounds are attributes of subtle and refined states of existence revealed to gurus, masters, Saints or Rishis in higher states of consciousness. Mantra literally

2024

What are the 6 Types of Shatkarma Cleansing Techniques?

Updated on: 12.02.2025 “To transcend the body does not mean to just forget about it. One has to purify it. Therefore, these six kriyas of hatha yoga are necessary for spiritual aspirants.”1 Swami Satyananda Saraswati Shatkarma: Meaning Shatkarmas, sometimes referred to as shatkriyas, are six groups of cleansing techniques within the hatha yoga tradition whose purpose is to purify the body and mind by creating harmony between the two major pranic flows, ida and pingala

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