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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 […]

9 Jul

#5: Pranayamas

In every yoga class that I have been, most of the teachers do not teach us the proper breathing methods. Most often, I would be breathing through my mouth instead of my nose. However, after attending this course, I realized the importance of having right Pranayama techniques. Pranayama is referred to as the expansion of […]