Essays « Inner Vision Yoga

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Incorporating Yoga into Any Workout

by Jeff Martens

Ahimsa and Exercise

What do Gandhi, Mother Theresa and Martin Luther king Jr. have to do with your daily workout routine? These and countless other peaceful warriors have helped to reshape the planet and create lasting change throughout world history by utilizing a yoga principle known as ahimsa. By learning from their [...]

Yoga and the Mirror of Perception

By Jeff Martens

Tada drastuhu svarupe avastanam… Yoga Sutra 1.3 When we are in a state of yoga our form is one of pure awareness.

Vritti svarupyam itaratra… Yoga Sutra 1.4 When we are not in a state of yoga, our form becomes our mental disturbances.

Light is a form of energy. It reflects off [...]

How I spent My Summer Vacation

Karma, Freedom and the Emptiness of Time By Jeff Martens The Heart of the River I want to jump into the Colorado River’s 50 degree silt-brown water and lay my cheek against Vishnu’s skin!

Visible only in certain stretches at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, this rock is blacker than black, so black that [...]

“The Main Event”

by Jeff Martens

“Ladies and Gentlemen, Happy New Year and Welcome to the Main Event! This is the moment you have all been waiting for, the time and place where YOUR life actually IS. Join us now for the bungle in the jungle, the stage in the cage, the fling in the ring, [...]

Headstand

Coming into Headstand by Sookkuan Chang

Today is a special day for me. I have made it to headstand without using the wall. It just happened, exactly like how Nigel described it. When the right time comes, you will know. Just about two nights ago, I was just lamenting about my incapability of [...]

“The Target”

The Target

by Jeff Martens

sarvahrthataikahgratayoho kshayodayau cittasya samahdhi-parinahmaha

Inner wholeness dawns when the mind’s many wanderings collapse into one-pointed focus. Yoga Sutra 3.11

The Zen Master Rinzai was known far and wide throughout the land as the greatest living archer. Bowmen of all levels would come from great distances to be near [...]

“Action and Reaction”

Newton’s Third Law and Yoga

By Maren Fagerman

Growing up in Chicagoland, I had the chance to visit the Sears Tower many times, and I can tell you one of the most impressive features of this mind-boggling skyscraper is that it takes a heck of a lot longer to walk around the base [...]

The Practical Yogin

To live our practice in every way is to bring the awareness of unity into the simplest and most mundane as well as the most challenging areas of our lives. This section is dedicated to providing practical means to apply our yoga in the external world in order to support our [...]

Student Essay: Me teaching yoga?

TAKE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING? ME? I DUNNO

by Nancy Cole

Having taken yoga classes over the past four years or so, beginning slowly with one class each week, and moving forward to about year ago when I began taking a class every day, I had serious questions about making a commitment to teacher training. [...]

“No-Thing to be Thankful For”

“No-Thing” to Be Thankful For by Jeff Martens

The water was loud enough to drown out shouted conversation. Rain poured from the night sky and flooded through the ceiling of the large studio in a waterfall larger than any monsoon had a right to deposit. A half hour later we found that, in addition to [...]

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