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2024

What is Pranayama Breathing and Why Should You Practice it Regularly?

Prana and Pranayama In order to explain pranayama, we need to first understand what prana actually is. Prana is the essence of life that permeates both the macrocosmos and the microcosmos. It is the sum total of all energy residing in the universe. It sustains everything from the planets, the magnetic fields to a blade of grass and the running of our computers. It is prana which preserves our body as well as our mind. Pranayama is

2024

What are the 7 Chakras and How to Balance Them?

Updated on: 18.11.24 What are the seven chakras? Chakras are vortices of energy which function like switches controlling the flow of prana (vital energy) within the body. They funnel and absorb cosmic prana (or spiritual energy) from the universe acting as transformers thereby reducing the voltage of energy received from the universe. The chakras send the received energy along the nadis (energy pathways or meridians) to the nervous system and endocrine system of the physical

2024

5 Yogic Breathing Techniques and their Benefits

Curious about what yogic breathing is? Learn about some of the different types of yogic breathing techniques and their tremendous benefits. What is pranayama? The practices of yogic breathing have been known and performed in India for more than four thousand years. We find them mentioned in ancient texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. These practices were handed down through oral tradition and between the sixth – fifteenth centuries were written down in detail

2024

What is a Yoga Ashram? Things You Should Know

Updated on 22/12/2025 The greatest lesson we have to learn is the lesson of life. And this becomes available to us when we decide to step out of our routine existence and adopt some different ways to live by, even if it is for a short time. One of these ways is ashram life, where you can stay for a few days as a sannyasin and live a life that is diametrically opposite to yours

2024

Introduction to Yoga

Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow. —Swami Satyananda Saraswati Yoga is the science of right living and, as such, is intended to be incorporated in daily life. It works on all aspects of the person: the physical, vital, mental, emotional, psychic and spiritual. Meaning of the word “yoga” The word yoga means ‘unity’

2024

Parents and children

How can sankalpa be used with children? How can we avoid projecting our own desires onto children and how can we help them to be aware of the difficulties in relationships with parents? Swami Sivananda used to say that children are lumps of clay and you can mould them in any way you want them to be. This is true, but unfortunately we have not been moulded properly and we lack the understanding of how

2024

Yoga Nidra Book, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Sowing the seed of change

In yoga nidra, perhaps the most effective means of training the mind is found in the sankalpa, which you make for yourself during each practice. Anything in life can fail you, but not the sankalpa made during yoga nidra. What is Sankalpa? Sankalpa is a Sanskrit word which can be translated as resolve or resolution. It is an important stage of yoga nidra and a powerful method of reshaping your personality and direction in life

2024

Yogic lifestyle – keeping it all together

The yoga capsule sadhana which I have outlined helps to incorporate yoga in our lifestyle and create a positive and uplifting environment at home. In this way, we are able to live, we are able to love and we are able to laugh. Living, loving and laughing is the aim of yoga, not samadhi. Don’t aspire for samadhi, don’t aspire for illumination, at least our tradition does not believe in that. Our tradition believes in

2024

Welcome to Satyananda yoga academy Europe

Our Upcoming Online Programs Open Day with Satyananda Yoga Academy Europe: 15.6.24 Teacher Module: 20.–22.9.24 SYAE was formed in 2004 under the direction of Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati. Its aim is to ensure the source of origin and high quality of teachings of Satyananda Yoga in Europe and therefore maintaining the integrity of the original teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati.In 2013 Swami Niranjanananda introduced the 2nd chapter of yoga during the World Yoga Convention. The current

2024

What is the object of seva or selfless service?

Serving others helps to develop the human personality. It is the most effective method or sadhana for cleansing the mind and purifying the heart. Negative qualities constrict the heart and leave deposits on the mind, acting as a veil or thick crust to separate you from others. Selfless service breaks the veil, removes the crust and causes expansion of the heart.Egoism, hatred, jealousy, prejudice and pride vanish. Humility, love, compassion and tolerance are developed. Selfishness

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