Pragathi Yoga

Gita Jayanthi and Mokshada ekadasi wishes to all ! A beautiful day to give gratitude to timeless wisdom of Gita 🙏🏽

Deepavali is a reminder that even the smallest light can dispel the darkest shadow.

Gurupoornima wishes to everyone from a place rooted in unconditional love and care - Deenabandhu trust Chamarajmagar.

Snippets from International yoga day and Father’s Day fundraiser sessions.

Thanks to Kayoko Mitsumatsu for making Father’s Day yoga session fundraiser special by talking about YGB and inspiring us to live yoga beyond the mat. Thanks to my dear students who are practicing with me for the past few years and contributed to the cause and mission.

Many thanks to GRMA Canada for having me on the special occasion of International yoga day.

So grateful to be able to give back in little ways I can !

TT time ! These ladies are about to graduate and live their sankalpa.

I am back . That was a good social media break to focus on the many projects that I wanted to complete !

I had been learning more, teaching less and focusing on continuing education.
Neurofeedback, somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, havening, trauma informed yoga were some of the therapy modalities that I was gaining good hands on experience on.l am grateful for my supervisors Dr Mednick and Dr Kristen for guiding me. Can’t contain this passion 💕
It’s true that the path reveals itself as you walk it.

So profound !

"In some fundamental way, to meditate isn't to have some special meditative experience. But to come back to the mysterious experience of being alive, that we take for granted." – Jack Kornfield 💃

On this Vidyarambham day my dear student Pavithra started her teacher training journey. For the next one year we will be immersing ourselves in deeper study of yoga philosophy, asana, anatomy and a topic that Pavithra is passionate about, Yoga for women.

When one teaches , two learns. Looking forward to what we mutually learn and eventually what Pavithra offers to this world. So excited for her to be joining me on this journey.

How do we measure a person’s yoga practice? What does ‘being good at yoga’ even mean?

What if it’s not how long they hold a handstand...
Or how deep their forward bend is...
Or if they can balance on one arm...
Or if they can power through 108 sun salutations without breaking a sweat...
Or how tight their ‘yoga body’ is...
Or if they can sit on their bum doing nothing for hours at a time...
Or if they can see pretty blue flashing lights above their crown....
Not even if they can manufacture bliss-states from time to time.

What if a person’s yoga practice was measured in how good a listener they become...
In a lessening of reactivity to other people’s bu****it...
In their ability to see the best in others and love it... even the most annoying people...
In their kindness...
In their capacity for sincerity...
In their naturally reduced need for stimulating pleasures that were adopted to compensate for the eclipsed pleasures of breath and being...
In their ability to say things clearly without fear of what people will think...
In their perspective on the world.

If this stuff isn’t developing naturally — not as a fake performance — then it could be that our yoga isn’t actually yoga. Awkward.

Real yoga is about clarity of mind and perception, by linking the dissociative and solipsistic brain back up with the whole body, which is already nature, the power of life.

And it does matter, not just as pedantry, because we urgently need more love and less reactivity, and more clarity and less consumerism.

~Rosalind Atkinson

Yes, it's just as chill as it sounds.

Surfboard pose can help release the sacrum and lower back while relieving stiffness in the neck, upper back, and shoulders.

Learn key practice tips here.

https://www.yogauonline.com/yoga-practice-tips-and-inspiration/surfboard-pose-soothe-body-and-mind

This place radiates what it is named after ! Anandam - Happiness ❤️
Thank you for having us as part of yoga family Anandaji Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani and Ammaji ❤️

It was a great honor to inaugurate International Yoga celebrations at Veda Vyasa Vidyapeedom, a hidden gem in my hometown where yoga is an integral part of the curriculum. Loved interacting with kids, parents and yoga teachers from Bodhi Dharma Yoga school.