YOGA RESOURCES
MEDITATION
Humans crave interaction so much that a study by Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia found that 2/3rds of men and 1/3rd of women who were asked to sit alone for 6 to 15 minutes chose electric shock for themselves over sitting alone, and one participant even shocked himself 190 times in 15 minutes). Achieving the Sutras task of calming the mind is not easy for most.
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Meditation helps the body, but helps one discover things much deeper than the body. The body lives time but the consciousness and the soul do not. The body is only rented—it will expire. Pure consciousness is open, awake, clear, and behaves like light.
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This section dives deeper into meditation techniques and tips.
ASHTANGA YOGA
Physical Ashtanga Yoga.
The most powerful physical system of yoga that I have discovered is Ashtanga Yoga. Ashtanga was developed by K. Pattabi Jois in Mysore, India. Jois learned yoga from Tirumalai Krishnamacharya and became a teacher of Brahma Priest candidates in Mysore. Nancy Gilgoff and David Williams (both of whom continue to teach in Maui) discovered Jois and brought yoga along with Pattabi’s son, Manju, to Southern California. Jois used to say frequently, “yoga is 99% practice, 1% theory.” I don’t think he would find this book too helpful, as one must experience yoga to understand it
