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2024

7 Different Types of Meditation Practices: How to Choose the Most Suitable? 

Satyananda Yoga, rooted in the Bihar School of Yoga, offers a variety of meditation practices which aim to cultivate mental clarity, emotional stability, and spiritual growth enabling practitioners to connect with their deeper selves. What is meditation? Meditation is simply dedicating quiet time to oneself, an opportunity to turn inward, reflect, and connect with the positive Self within. It is a path to self-knowledge, peace, joy, and equanimity. Through cultivating awareness, practitioners learn to observe

2024

What is Karma Yoga and What Benefits Does It Offer?

Most people will have heard of the more popular branches of yoga, such as hatha, raja, kriya or kundalini yoga, and many may practice these regularly at a yoga centre, a gym or at home. But very few know what karma yoga really is. What is Karma yoga? Karma yoga is the yoga of action and work. In other words, any action we do, any work we do, can become yoga. It is what Swami

2024

Cultivating Spirituality: Inspiring Books from the Satyananda Yoga Tradition

Why is it important to work on our spirituality? To live a meaningful and fulfilled life, it is very important to work on our spirituality. For a person to be able to sustain joy, satisfaction and happiness they need a connection to their spirit otherwise known as atman in Sanskrit. In order to do this, you must have a regular spiritual practice, known as sadhana which is given to you by a yoga master or

2024

Yoga practices in nature: connecting with Mother Earth

Most of us live in large urban centres in an apartment, spend prolonged periods of time in front of a screen and drive around in cars to get to places. Spending time outdoors and enjoying nature is rare in most people’s lives today, but it is not impossible. Wherever you are in the world, you can find a natural beauty spot: a river, the sea, a lake, the ocean, a park, a forest, a mountain,

2024

Meditation for Self-Love: All You Need To Know

How to get to self-love? Developing self-love is multifaceted and there are many different points to consider when you start to cultivate this state within yourself. In fact, the foundation of self-love is self-acceptance. Accept yourself as you are. This of course doesn’t mean that you do not work on certain aspects of yourself that may create hindrances in your life, but it’s important to realize that it is impossible to really love yourself unless

2024

Meditation for Beginners: 5 Easy Tips to Follow

The benefits of meditation practice Meditation practice is essential in our lives as it brings about numerous laudable benefits which doctors and researchers continue to tell us about. But from a spiritual perspective, and most importantly, meditation practice increases our self-awareness. In Satyananda Yoga awareness carries a special significance and is emphasized in all yogic practices. Awareness means the ability to witness and observe one’s mental, emotional and physical activities. If you are aware, then

2024

Yoga Nidra: Deep Relaxation Within Minutes

Satyananda Yoga Nidra® is a very powerful practice derived from the Tantras, which go back thousands of years. With this practice one learns how to relax the mind consciously. It’s a state of dynamic sleep, but you do not actually sleep. In fact, sleep is not considered to be relaxation according to yoga. So, what is relaxation? Most people think that relaxation is having a drink at the end of the day or lighting up

2024

The Benefits of Meditation and Where to Begin

Meditation practice is simply dedicating quiet time to oneself. It’s the opportunity to introvert, reflect and to come into contact with the inner positive Self. It is a technique for self-knowledge, peace, joy and equanimity. A common misunderstanding of meditation is that one stops thoughts. It is definitely not a practice to block out or suppress thoughts and events that are constantly affecting our day-to-day life. But let’s take a closer look at what meditation

2024

Practicing Yoga at Home: 10 Yoga Poses to Try

Updated on 5th May 2025 What is asana? Many people believe that you have to be very fit, very flexible or very young to do yoga asanas, but this could not be further from the truth. Looking back to the ancient scriptures, one of the most well-known definitions of asana (yoga posture) is by the sage Patanjali, who defines it as “sthiram sukham asanam” meaning steady and comfortable should be the posture. Another important aspect

2024

Top 3 Pranayama Breathing Techniques You Should Try

The simplest definition of pranayama is breath control. Naturally this definition does not really expound on the depth of the meaning of pranayama. When practicing pranayama, you regulate the prana (vital force) within you and distribute it to different levels of your being. The various techniques of pranayama involve influencing the breath and directing the flow of prana along the nadis or energy circuits of the pranamaya kosha otherwise known as the energy body which

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