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The World of Ascetics

2014-03-02T16:14:39.751Z

Excerpt from the film Sadhana. please visit official website at www.sadhanafilm.com (synopsis, film reviews, purchase of DVD and/or booklet) of this 80 minutes feature film Sadhana recounting the Odyssey of a young Westerner who follows the call of his soul to India - the land of ancient and spiritual Wisdom of the East.
"Illuminating and thoroughly enjoyable film" (Diana Oestrich and Elliot Landy - UPLIFTING FILMS).
"Highlighted by truly enlightening conversations with a number of gurus and masters" (Eric Noll - NEW TEXAS MAGAZINE)
Also available in streaming via http://www.gaiamtv.com/video/sadhana

Yoga Benefits Are in Breathing Less (Amazon Book Trailer)

2012-04-23T17:45:06.586Z

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Today's yoga is truly a completely different training compared to yoga taught some decades in the past. It was very effective tool to fight against health problems for example heart disease, asthma as well as cancer. Most of all, traditional yoga could boost oxygen tension in body organs owing to one magic formula that was a short while ago exposed. Note that while doctors say that they do not know causes of chronic diseases, the cause on a cell level is known: low O2 content in tissues and cells.

Modern-day yoga typically, after we consider millions of people exercising yoga, doesn't help with low O2 levels in body cells since it instructs numerous bizarre ideas in relation to oxygen transport. For a in-depth report on and analysis of complications with contemporary yoga, and precisely what the heart and soul of yoga is, you may check out this YouTube video concerning the main secret to success in yoga: Yoga.

Firstly, modern yoga coaches and instructors are obsessive about poses or asanas while dismissing the essence of yoga. Definitely, if you visit yoga lessons, you can recognize that they mostly include poses (up to 90 %) and less than 10 % of yoga classes is devoted to respiration exercises. These postures can be used for years without changes in overall health and scores for the body oxygen test.

Second of all, modern yoga does not have any standard or number, while original yoga texts declare that we must little by little raise the time periods of cycles while doing the most crucial respiration exercise generally known as Pranayama. Research, at the same time, states that, when we breathe in extra air at rest, we get reduced oxygen content in body tissues. And classic yoga understood that overbreathing is not beneficial to us.

One other confusion, having to do with current day yoga tutors, is that, when talking about respiration, they're obsessive about the idea of breathing exercises while neglecting unconscious or automatic breathing patterns. It surely is not crucial how to inhale and exhale for a couple of hours of your breathing workouts, Nevertheless it is more important, for prevention of cancers and various other disorders, how you breathe for the remaining portion of the day since we need significant oxygen content in body cells all the time.

Having said that, you ought to be aware that just pranayama or some other respiratory exercises are not sufficient to increase oxygen content in tissues and overcome chronic diseases. A yoga student has to make changes regarding his or her way of life to improve his yoga breathing. As an illustration, mouth breathing and speaking a lot cut down blood carbon dioxide content and brain cell oxygenation. A number of other factors including supine sleep and eating too much, as well as absence of exercise, also make breathing at rest deeper and faster. This leads to lowered oxygen content in body organs.

Mindfulness Through Meditation?

2011-08-31T18:37:11.540Z

Picture this: You're in the remote woods, totally cut-off from civilization, and you have no access to your phone, iPod, computer, television, book, radio, or your family and friends.

Your job is to spend 10 days, meditating, for 10 hours each day

OMG! Do you think you could do it? And why?

I did it to challenge myself, but it ended up transforming not only my perspective, but also my future.

Check out this fascinating trailer for my memoir, titled "Inner Pilgrimage: Ten Days to a Mindful Me," based directly on my meditation experience.

Google ZenShredding-02-13-13-45_wmv

2008-05-06T06:29:51.288Z

ZEN Shredding ~ the movie. NOT just an average book trailer... This 14 minute movie contains images, music and words to inspire you on the pursuet of dreams, inspiration, passion and change you have for your life.