A word originating from Sanskrit language, Panchakarma essentially means ‘five treatments’ or ‘five actions.’ It’s a treatment used for cleaning up the body of any toxic matter, often left by poor dietary habits and diseases. Usually, our body has the inherent ability to effectively process and remove any such waste matter, including the vitiated doshas,
What is Pratyahara? Pratya is a Sanskrit word that means to ‘drawback’ or ‘withdraw,’ and ahara is anything that you ‘take in,’ for instance all kinds of smells, sounds, senses and sights that we constantly take in. Also as distractions aren’t only limited to the external world, sometimes the chatter in our mind can be
Mouna is a Sanskrit word that roughly translates to silence. This practice of silence or nonspeaking is usually introduced in various yoga retreats in the form of a daily time-period when the practitioner doesn’t have to speak. In more advanced level yoga practices, this time-period can stretch up to several days. A lot of what
Once you’ve understood the significance of Mouna or silence to explore your inner self, it would be important for you to create time in your daily life, to nurture this quietness. Ask any seasoned yoga and meditation teacher and s/he’d tell you how it’s the easiest thing to not practice yoga or meditate! It comes
It has become increasingly important today to find some time to separate ourselves from the daily grind that we’re subjected to these days. What is Mouna? The practice of yoga and meditation allows you to remove yourself from all the noise, and be really quiet. Referred to as Mouna or silence, although it means staying
With so much buzz surrounding the benefits of yoga, it was only a matter of time before people stopped getting carried away by all the hype and looked at some of its potential pitfalls too. After all, yoga is all about common sense. “Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life,
The modern-day postural yoga that we practice today has been greatly influenced by Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, popularly referred to as ‘The Father of Modern Yoga.’ His teachings were made possible by and flourished under the patronage of Mysore’s Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar during the 1930s and 40s, primarily at the Mysore Palace where they were a part
Anyone who seeks the best yoga schools in India must know that the institute he/she is going to play a lot of emphasis on breathing. Breathing properly and focusing attention on it holds a lot of importance in yoga. Unspoken message There is an unspoken message constantly floating in the world around us. This message
