Heal Your Shoulders, Improve Your Memory & Learn the Headstand VIDEO

September 10, 2011

I heard so much about the success of, Self-Healing Shoulder Pain with Yoga, that I thought you might like to try this intermediate yoga headstand position. Three of the many benefits for you are: 1. You will increase circulation to your brain, which will improve your memory and brain function. If you find this a [...]

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Easy Seated Stretches for Back, Hips, Hamstrings VIDEO

August 22, 2011

This is a very simple, easy-to-do video to help you loosen up your back, hips and legs. Be very gentle, move slowly without forcing,  and you will reduce tightness, tension, and pain. This video clip is taken from my Easy Yoga for Home, Office & Studio DVD.

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How Not to Hurt Yourself Doing Yoga

August 15, 2011

If you are experiencing pain when you practice yoga, it may be that you really don’t understand what yoga is. Let’s begin with When Are You Not Practicing Yoga? If you are straining, pushing, forcing or competing in your yoga practice, you are not practicing yoga. If you end your yoga session with pulled muscles, torn [...]

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Self-Healing Shoulder Pain with Yoga

August 4, 2011

When you have been teaching Yoga for more than 30 years as I have, you don’t need a lot of evidence to prove that yoga works. However, it is still nice to see conventional medicine offering some studies with proof. A simple yoga position to Heal Shoulder Pain In an August 1, 2011 New York [...]

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Gringolandia: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

July 27, 2011

Because I live and teach Yoga here in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, I decided to post this review of a documentary film produced by Dennis Lanson, one of my yoga students. My son Zachary Popovsky worked on this film as a translator/editor/photographer for Dennis. I did this review for the newspaper Atencion San Miguel,  and [...]

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Personal Reflections of Durga Mata, a direct Disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda

July 24, 2011

This video post is by Karen Dardick, who received many years of counseling and training by Durga Mata at Self-Realization Fellowship Mother Center, Mount Washington, Los Angeles, California. I greatly appreciate this insight into a direct Disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, and I hope that you will find some value here also, as I am sure [...]

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How to Be Happy Anytime

July 14, 2011

Here is a great post by one of the world’s most successful bloggers who has managed to live his life on his own terms. Leo Babauta proves to us that happiness is within, if we but choose to have that attitude. Very Zen and very much Yoga.   How to Be Happy Anytime   Post [...]

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Why Not Add a Spiritual Attitude to Your Self-Healing Yoga Practice?

June 12, 2011

Are you stuck in your self-healing progress? Maybe it is time to examine the Spiritual Aspects of Yoga. For example, in one of Daya Mata’s talks she quoted Paramahansa Yogananda as saying, “Never, ever blame anyone for anything. Accept all as coming from God and Guru for your growth.” My immediate reaction was, This would [...]

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How Mark Healed His Knee Pain

May 7, 2011

Guest writer Mark Du Bois practices Kriya Yoga and is a member of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship.     Norm, I just read the article and comments regarding Danielle’s knee problems. It’s nice to hear of others successes using the techniques you provide to students. I have been experiencing some knee problems myself recently. I [...]

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Self-Healing Leg Pain, Inflammation, Stiffness & Swelling

April 22, 2011

Because I have been getting a great deal of site traffic from people suffering with a lot of joint pain, inflammation, stiffness and swelling, I am considering writing a series of articles on self-healing of these conditions. Here is a knee replacement problem submitted by Danielle in the Comments section of the article Reduce & [...]

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