https://www.expandinglight.org/anandayoga/what-is-ananda-yoga.php Ananda Yoga brings yoga back to its original spiritual essence. Above all, it seeks to raise your level of consciousness by reinforcing the natural effects the yoga. Ananda Yoga includes: *Asana (yoga postures) *Pranayama (breathing and energy-control techniques) *Yogic meditation techniques *Applied yoga philosophy What Is the Practice Like? Yoga posture practice in Ananda Yoga® is gentle for beginning … Read More
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Ananda Yoga Instructional Videos – Halasana (Plow Pose)
Ananda Yoga brings yoga back to its original spiritual essence. Above all, it seeks to raise your level of consciousness by reinforcing the natural effects the yoga. Ananda Yoga includes: *Asana (yoga postures) *Pranayama (breathing and energy-control techniques) *Yogic meditation techniques *Applied yoga philosophy What Is the Practice Like? Yoga posture practice in Ananda Yoga® is gentle for beginning students, … Read More
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Ananda Yoga Instructional Videos – Salabhasana (Locust Pose)
https://www.expandinglight.org/anandayoga/what-is-ananda-yoga.php Ananda Yoga brings yoga back to its original spiritual essence. Above all, it seeks to raise your level of consciousness by reinforcing the natural effects the yoga. Ananda Yoga includes: *Asana (yoga postures) *Pranayama (breathing and energy-control techniques) *Yogic meditation techniques *Applied yoga philosophy What Is the Practice Like? Yoga posture practice in Ananda Yoga® is gentle for beginning … Read More
Ananda Yoga, Yoga Postures, Yoga Teacher Training
Overcoming Obstacles
Overcoming Obstacles by becoming an Ananda Yoga teacher As director of the Ananda Yoga Teacher Training Program at The Expanding Light Retreat, I’m fortunate to meet yoga practitioners of all ages and backgrounds, who have dedicated themselves to a regular practice of yoga and who want to deepen their understanding of yoga as a tool for spiritual growth. During the … Read More
Ananda Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga Therapy Final Essay
Author: Kyle McDonald Kyle McDonald C-IAYT 2017 Yoga Therapist/ Healing Arts Instructor Children’s Integrative Therapies, Pain Management & Supportive Care Department / Hasbro Children’s Hospital Rhode Island Hospital Cancer Institute Reflecting on my own journey of healing, I know that Raja Yoga, the 8-limbed path, is a lifestyle system, which affects mind, body and spirit and has the potential to … Read More
Ananda Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga Postures, Yoga Teacher Training
Winter Restorative Yoga Pose
Winter is a time for comfort, staying warm, and withdrawing from outer activity. Unlike the other seasons, winter gives us the opportunity to stay indoors and take notice of the changes that are needed to create better balance in our busy lives. We know from experience, that when we become overstimulated or overexerted, both our bodies and immune systems reap … Read More
Ananda Yoga, Yoga Teacher Training
10 Tips for Yoga Teachers
These are principles we focus on at The Expanding Light Retreat and in our Ananda School of Yoga and Meditation for teaching yoga and training teachers. Practice what you teach. Always teach from your own experience and realized knowledge. Constantly draw from this well of inspired, ever-new experience through your own daily, dedicated practice. Always be a student. Study and … Read More
Ananda Yoga, Yoga Postures, Yoga Teacher Training
Energizing Your Spiritual Life
If you haven’t heard about the “30-Day Energization Challenge” that Gyandev launched on October 12, you can read about it and join if you’re interested. This challenge couldn’t have come at a more useful time in my life. Recently, I’ve been reflecting on how poor my Energization practice has become! I’m embarrassed to admit that as a new mother, I’ve … Read More
Ananda Yoga, Superconscious Living, Yoga Postures, Yoga Teacher Training
Dharma and the Destruction of Suffering
Dharma, or right action, wrote Paramhansa Yogananda, “means those immutable principles which protect man permanently from the three-fold suffering of disease, unhappiness, and ignorance.” An embodiment of dharma himself, Yogananda explained: “Destruction of suffering involves the permanent elimination of all possibility of any return of suffering.” The science of yoga offers us specific direction in how to uplift our consciousness … Read More
Ananda Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga Alliance’s New Policy on Yoga Therapy
The Bhagavad Gita teaches us that Life is a Battlefield, so we shouldn’t really be surprised when two of our national yoga organizations seem to be engaged in turf battles. However, on closer examination of the reactions to Yoga Alliance’s new Policy on Yoga Therapy, we can see that the perceived controversy is probably a necessary ‘growing pain’ associated with … Read More
