Students often come to Yoga class in a habitual mindset that is geared up for being productive and accomplishing tasks. Unless they manage to disengage from that state, they will approach their Yoga practice with an unconscious tendency to be good, to live up to...
To raise our practice of asanas out of the realm of physical exercise and into the sphere of Yoga sadhana, we need to learn methods of staying conscious and listening with awareness. We are always listening to something, though much of the time it is not with...
Back in the late ‘70s when I was living at our ashram in Connecticut, Sri Gurudev invited me to be Director of Teacher Training. I gulped and said, “I’ve done a bit of Yoga, Gurudev, but who am I to be Director of Teacher Training?” “Well, Prahaladan,” he smiled, “you...
