Krishnamacharya

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Krishnamacharya is one of the more interesting figures in the paradigm of modern yoga’s founders. He probably had the greatest effect on the types of yoga that we practice today in the west and he healed many people during the course of his life. He used Ayurveda in conjunction with yoga to restore health and … Read more

Krishna Pattabhi Jois

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Krishna Pattabhi Jois is the founder of the Ashtanga style of yoga and one of the most influential yoga teachers to have brought yoga to the west through the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India. I studied there in January 2015. Jois was born on a full moon in 1915 in Kowshika in southern … Read more

The 5 Major Problems with Hinduism (esp. the Caste System)

Biggest Hindu Temple: Akshardham (the Hindusim & the Caste system)

Modern Hinduism As humans, we like to idealize about things that we don’t necessarily experience. The grass is always greener where you aren’t. Recently, this has occurred quite often in the way that Westerners view eastern religions in the yoga community. I definitely experienced this before I saw the religions in action when I visited southeast … Read more

Adjusting Ashtanga

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I am a huge fan of the Ashtanga practice. The intensity, the discipline, the mindlessness, and the routine of the sequential practice makes it like a second home for me. I always know that there are mornings where I can wake up and work without thinking, push myself without thinking of how, breathing without having to … Read more

The Human Body is an Ecosystem (Part 4/5 : Gastro-Intestinal Micro-Organisms)

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Part 4: Micro Organisms of the Gut Please see the other parts of the article; once they are completed the links will be active: Part 1: anatomy of the human microbiome Part 2: micro-organisms on the skin Part 3: micro-organisms in the mouth Part 5: implications for modern medicine The increased knowledge of gut bacteria is a … Read more