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Yoga Center opens in Powderhorn community

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Svasti Yoga Center for Healing and Transformation, serving the greater Powderhorn community of Minneapolis, is now open for classes at 3751 Bloomington Ave. S. Svasti Yoga is a relaxed inspiring atmosphere to learn yoga or deepen your practice. The new yoga center is committed to providing quality yoga instruction and yoga therapy to anyone who wants to learn, including people who, due to practical concerns of limited time, physical, or financial ability, might otherwise lack access. Svasti … [Read more...]

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Happiness and Joy

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Often yoga is associated with discipline, hard work, denial and even rigorous practice. Sure, we talk a lot in Yoga about discipline, and yes, we need that, but really, Yoga is the "Art of Joyful Living" (Swami Rama). We confuse joy with happiness, not knowing what either is except that it's something that makes me feel good, invoking in me the feeling of being happy. Scientific research names three sources that give us "happiness": Pleasure (positive sensory experience, for example … [Read more...]

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The 2011 Himalayan Yoga Meditation Congress

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The 2011 Himalayan Yoga Meditation Congress, a three-week series of events addresses how to create joy in one's life through the art and science of Yoga, will take place July 18 through August 10 throughout the Twin Cities, led by global spiritual leader Swami Veda Bharati and sponsored by The Meditation Center based in Northeast Minneapolis. The Congress will explore spiritual responses to the aspects of life that block our natural experience of joy as informed by the 5,000-year-old Himalayan … [Read more...]

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A Guide to the Practice of Yoga, for adults and children

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An interview with teacher Hiyala Indiga Hiyala Indiga, owner of Body Mind Circle and Body Prayers Yoga Studio, feels so blessed to be able to serve her clients with yoga, massage and artwork. After years of traveling to teach at various sites, she is happy to have found her current studio in Circle Pines, MN. A class with Hiyala is always an exploration -- not just of the physical body, but also the mental, emotional and spiritual body. In most every class there will be "check ins" -- a time … [Read more...]

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Open house celebrates new yoga studio

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BLOOMINGTON, MN -- Inner Peace Therapy & Yoga will host an Open House from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, at its new location at 8100 Penn Ave. S., Suite 104, Bloomington, offering guests tea, treats, respite, yoga and a chance to win prizes. Free 20-minute Relaxation Yoga & Meditation experiences will be offered at 10 a.m., Noon and 2 p.m. Inner Peace Therapy & Yoga offers a variety of integrative, holistic services that incorporate mind, body and spirit for optimum mental, … [Read more...]

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Imagine!

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Sometimes, as you watch a diver pause to become centered just before lifting off, can you feel that moment of readiness in your own body? And as the diver takes off, body in perfect alignment, do you feel that dynamic tension and release in your own body? Can you feel inside yourself what it would be like to samba like Cheryl Burke or skate like Kristi Yamaguchi? Can you imagine it? Imagination can make us step outside the routine of our lives and take action to manifest the potential … [Read more...]

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Siddhis: The Magical Powers of Yoga

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I first heard of the siddhis when I was in college studying the philosophy of yoga. It was also the first time I heard of yoga. In my philosophy course, I learned that one of the side-effects of yogic pursuits was distracting "powers" that seemed to just crop up at a point when the yogi was really getting proficient at the various yogic practices (not necessarily hatha, or physical yoga). I got excited when I heard about them. Then I was informed that these powers were a distraction because … [Read more...]

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Tableau of Aspiration

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Many names of yoga poses come about because the sight of the pose brought something to mind for the viewer. Many of them make good sense, like the cobra and the lion poses. But others, like the warrior poses, have been a challenge to work my brain around. These poses don't look warlike to me. But recently, I began thinking of warrior in the Don Juan's terms. That is to say, one who lives every moment consciously and with courage. In that case, Warrior I is a tableau of the warrior's … [Read more...]

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Satsang with Svaroopa® yoga founder

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Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati, originator and heart of Svaroopa® yoga, will be in St. Paul from 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, to share the depth and breadth of yoga's timeless teachings in a free program at Highland Yoga Center, 1040 S. Cleveland Ave. Swami Nirmalananda teaches yoga according to the ancient tradition - as a direct path to svaroopa, the bliss of your own being. She is the founding president of national Yoga Alliance and founder of Master Yoga Foundation. She communicates with great … [Read more...]

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Yoga, non-attachment & thin thighs in 30 days

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The 4th Annual Twin Cities Yoga Festival will take place October 23 at the Holiday Inn Metrodome. For more info and tickets, visit www.TwinCitiesYogaFestival.com. Yoga is not just for yogis any more. ¶ There was a place and time - and there still is in parts of the world - where certain yoga practitioners known as "Sadhus" renounced the world and subsisted solely through the charity and kindness of others. They were clad in meager attire that bore a striking resemblance to the fashion … [Read more...]

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