When you know something is right, you don’t require mountains of proof, but validation sure is nice every once in a while.  So, when the news blasted through the popular media that yoga has a positive effect on chronic lower back pain, the validation train arrived.   Continue reading…

Welcome to the Free Online Kundalini Yoga Meditation E-book.  This E-book will explain and detail the best meditations from the timeless school of Kundalini Yoga.  The meditation techniques from this book will be part of the Free Online Yoga and Meditation Classes, that are hosted here on the Mastery of Meditation website, but these meditations techniques can also, of course, be used independently as part of your own kundalini yoga practice.

A special thanks to my teacher Ravi Singh and his teacher Yogi Bhajan for imparting this priceless knowledge to us. <

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Last month we started the Learn Yoga | Yoga Asana Challenge of the Month series to help you improve your yoga practice and benefit from various yoga poses.  Our August pose was the terrific Nauk Asana (Boat Pose) which is one of the best asanas for developing your abdominal muscles and strengthening your core.  September’s pose you will find is no slouch either, as this excellent Kundalini Yoga exercise is great for developing your lower body strength and improving your level of fitness and health.  It is the famous Frog Pose.

Before jumping ahead to the pose for this month, let me give you a quick summary of what the yoga challenge of the month is and how it works.  Essentially, the idea is for us all to include a particular asana into our yoga practice and then to report back our thoughts and progress with that pose throughout the month.  The goal is to learn a great pose together, and experience and enjoy the benefits of that pose.  Now onto our yoga exercise for September.

September Yoga Practice Pose – Frog Pose:

Just like Boat Pose surprised many yogis with just how tough it actually was, Frog Pose is another such simple looking exercise which is not quite a easy as it looks.  Just like Boat Pose though, this exercise is excellent for the region it targets, and doing it regularly will reap you absolutely wonderful rewards.  Here is the link to the original article for Frog Pose (in green large text below), and below are some practice details for you.  Please do read the full article for the pose for all the information and also, please follow the Guidelines for Yoga Practice.

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A Columbia, SC museum is hosting a yoga class in the middle of an art gallery. Doing yoga among beautiful pieces of art enhances the senses says Rikki Donahue, the yoga teacher who will lead classes at the museum through September 9th. “You notice the vastness of the canvas, the colors and the mixture and your senses are so much more aware,” Donahue said. Continue reading…