What’s the real gift of yoga?
Atma Yoga ShalaFollowSep 29 · 5 min read Quick question. Who wants to feel no pain ever again in life? But before you answer it; Did you know there are actually few people who have never felt pain? No. They are not superhumans. They are the ones with a rare genetic disorder called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with […]
How Yoga Simplifies Your Life
Yoga simplifies your life. This statement is more of a disclaimer than an advertisement. Yoga TTC brochures should have this message: “DISCLAIMER!! Your life after this might be different from what it is now and the people around you might not like it or understand it completely — (but it will be beautiful)” Because one thing that […]
Thanks to Patanjali: The king of serpents — the remover of impurities of the mind
Every ardent yoga practitioner knows Patanjali. How? Because of a text that he had penned down on Yoga. A single piece of text, that has immense power to transform you, your life in turn. Sample from the original text Patanjali is known to be a mythological character because his origins have no concrete proof. His […]
The session that was – Invoking the Sacred Chants
A much awaited session it was for me. The session that was — Invoking Sacred chants. Vedic Chanting is practice that is prevalent in India, even today. Can you believe that a practice which had its origin many thousands of years back is surviving today? In a language which is no more used in common […]
The GUT Philosophy
Why you are NOT your thoughts. We are all more bacteria than we are human: Research says that only 10% of the cells in the human body are human cells. The rest are just um… bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc. So technically, around 90% of the cells that our body holds (inside and on it), are […]
The Session That was — Strength Training Vs Yoga
This session was a real eye-opener for me. Many a time, I was at a loss to explain better, the difference between a physical exercise at the gym and Yoga. The main point of difference I would say is Yoga is more holistic and attends to the mind. After this session, I realized how little […]
The Session That Was — A Psychologist’s Perspective Of Yoga
Itwas as though the world or at the least India needed attention on this and somehow AYS got to know it a little before. Maybe those who do yoga see what is needed much before others can!! Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety — these are the topics that were talked about, by the most famous Bollywood […]
How yoga and its butterfly effects can help kids?
How can you change the world… One flap at a time? If you had told me a year ago that a single mutation giving birth to a teeny tiny virus called COVID-19 would alter the way of life for humans in the span of just a few months, I would have laughed. But that is […]
How can nutrition complement yoga? The Session that was — Nutrition
The International Yoga Month Celebrations at Atma Yoga Shala kick started with a very interesting, informative and immensely beneficial live session on Nutrition. Did you miss it? If yes, that is unfortunate. Nevertheless, I was prepared for this session unlike other online live sessions I had attended before. I was ready on time with my […]
Enlightened AI !??
The Future Of Yoga post COVID-19 2020 has brought us down to our knees. But it has taught us one lesson that history has repeatedly proved (well at least in the last 10,000 years). Humans are the best survival machines…yet! It was because of this ability, that we climbed up to the top of the […]
