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1 Oct

Mudra

So Nicole taught us mudras during our nadi shodhana pranayama practice yesterday. We learnt Chin Mudra and Vishnu Mudra. It puzzled me why hand gesture is so important? So I decided to dig deeper. What is Chin Mudra? Chin Mudra means “gesture of consciousness”. The middle, ring and little fingers symbolize the three gunas: rajas […]

30 Sep

Kapalbhati – To do or not to do beyond 120 times?

I have found myself in yoga studio again. Only this time round I have 4 classmates. 4 of us are not working. Cool. It will be lot of fun training with girls again. I said to myself. Hehe. So, on Day 2, our trainer taught us Kapalbhati. She put a disclaimer upfront: PLEASE DO NOT […]

28 Aug

Pratyahara (Jing Wei)

3/6 Pratyahara is described by the theory manual as ‘withdrawal of the senses from objects and subjects and moving consciousness inwards’. I think this long phrase is best explained with an illustration. Say a bee stings me. If I don’t practice pratyahara, my reaction would be to scream and run. But by practising pratyahara, I […]

28 Aug

Ahimsa (Jing Wei)

5 more posts to go. Now I want to talk about Ahimsa. I like Ahimsa. I want to share with everybody that my current thought is that it is in Ahimsa that one develops love. It is not in willing your mind to love someone – more often that not we are lying to ourselves. […]

28 Aug

Karma Yoga (Jing Wei)

I am supposed to write something. The problem is that my mind is quite still – no thoughts seem to be flowing through. There’s a possibility that I might have reached a state of Samadhi. Or that the time of the day is too Tamasic for me to make my mind work. These are big […]

9 Jul

#6: Gratitude

5 weeks past by too quickly. On the first day of our course, it felt like a torture having to wake up at 530, and then coming to class at 730 for practical lessons. By the end of second week, my classmates and I look like we were zombies practicing yoga in a studio. But […]