Gaiatri Yoga Teacher Training and Beyond

Pada Bandha: Aligning your Feet

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Want to learn correct alignment of the feet? This is the podcast for you.

Three Part Yogic Breath

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In this edition of the Om Studio Anna Colin leads practitioners through a safe and effective version of the yogic 3-part breath. Explore how to breathe deeply, evenly and effectively in your seated and asana practice. This breath is accessible to any level of practitioner and is recommended at most times throughout the day.

Sama Vritti Pranayama - Equal Wavelength Breath

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In this brief edition of Gaiatri Yoga’s Om Studio you will be lead through a pranayama practice known as Sama Vritti. This is a calming and balancing breath that can be used to create feelings of groundedness, stability and ease in the physical, mental and emotional body.

Kappalabhati Pranayama

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This is pranayama technique to increase agni, immunity, heat, metabolism, clarity, intuition, and breath within the body.

Ghee Recipe

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Mar 30, 2009

Want to make your own delicious ghee? Follow this very simple recipe:

1. Cut up organic unsalted butter into smaller chunks and place in a heavy bottom pan to melt.  Over medium heat bring the butter to a boil.  Continue to boil it gently on low heat until white foam begins to rise to the top.  Carefully scoop off the foam and discard.

2. Once the butter begins to quite down and the bubbles floating up from the bottom become minimized watch it carefully.  Small milk solids will begin to fall and stick to the bottom of the pan and can easily burn at this point.  Turn the butter down and wait until there is almost no more bubbles rising.  The colour will be golden yellow and it will begin to smell like caramel. 

3. Take the ghee off the heat and carefully pour into a clean, dry glass jar.  Allow to solidify at room temperature and store covered on your counter.  Because you have removed the milk solids you do not need to refrigerate ghee.  Use it in place of butter or as a great way to add healthy oil to your food.

A Conspiracy Theory

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Mar 17, 2009

I think we can all connect with times in life when things have felt hard, confusing, stuck and that the entire universe is out to get us. To a dear friend not too long ago, i actually called the Universe a “demented little twirp”. However, after a spontaneous weekend where I found myself on my mat in a workshop in Vancouver with a dear friend and an incredibly gifted teacher, I feel as though I am formulating a new conspiracy theory all together. Perhaps, at each moment the universe is conspiring for us and for our best interest in developing towards love and light.

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Palming Meditation

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Anna Colin leads practitioners through a short exercise and meditation to rejuvenate the physical body, deepen the breath, increase prana into the eyes and brain. Share this podcast with co-workers and bring presence into your work day and environment.

Evoking the Light

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Mar 01, 2009

What better timing to write on the topic of the evocation of light, than with the smell of spring in the air and longer, brighter days. At a time when the world around us needs it most, the evocation of light both within our external surroundings, and most importantly within our own selves, is more important than ever.

Consciously creating a bigger and brighter light will mean many different things to all of us. For some, they will find themselves in visual meditations or using mantra to evoke divine light, for others playing, laughing, dancing and singing with family and friends will do the trick, or perhaps turning inward to regroup and rest is what will let the brilliance shine - the most important part, however, is to make the creation and sustenance of light within each of us a daily practice.

The practice of yoga at its essence is a realization of the true Self, a remembering of the joyful essence of which all things manifest. Attaining a state of enlightenment perhaps could be seen as an ongoing evolution, an uncovering in that we see all things as coming from a source of luminescence.  The metaphors are infinite.  When we choose to bring light into a dark space, there is nowhere for the dark to hide. Regardless of what your current life situations and lessons are, how can light be shed on the situation to offer peace, and how can you be a beacon of light for others?

One of my favourite quotes states that “A candle loses nothing by lighting another”.  As we move into spring, may we all find moments, relationships, and ways of being in service that make our hearts so bright, that the light filters out into the world around us.

~ Ally

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius

Posted by Sonja Logtenberg on Feb 18, 2009

Yesterday, when I walked into the climbing gym, Ally announced that the Age of Aquarius had begun. We proceeded to sing in pseudo-harmony that 60’s song of the same name.

Curious to learn more, I began to explore the net and found some really beautiful descriptions of this new time. If you’d like to get the full content, visit adhishakti.org:

“So, now a New Age has started which is called the Age of Aquarius, meaning the pitcher carrier of spiritual holy water that is the work of Kundalini.”
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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