About ten years ago, I met a priest visiting from South Africa, and he had a very exciting interpretation of the book of Genesis. He...

According to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the “yamas” and “niyamas” are the first two of the eight limbs of yoga. Together they represent a...

Literally translated to “The Song of God,” the Bhagavad Gita is a story within a story -- part of the larger epic, The Mahabharata. This...

The aim of yoga, according to Sri Aurobindo, “is to rise to a higher consciousness and to live out of the higher consciousness alone, not...

In his book Fundamental or Yoga, Rammurti Mishra offers the following “Rules for Practice of Yoga”: "Keep before the mind the fact that...

The meaning of the phrase to “stay” and become “present” more or less means to “stay present.” The present is the only place that is...

Early connotations of the word “yoga” bring to mind rail-thin women with tightly bound pony-tails contorting their ballerina-trained body...

Rammurti S. Mishra opens his book Yoga: A Handbook of Theory, Practice and Application with the line: “Submission of lower desire to...