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Sunday, March 25, 2018
"The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own mind. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated." -- Swami Satchidananada, The Yoga Sutras Current classes During 2017-18, I am teaching on campus at Maynooth University. Om Shanti! My Background: I completed my training courses in yoga and Vedanta under the guidance of Chandra Om, founder of the Shanti Niketan Ashram in Cary, NC. I am certified through the Yoga Alliance at the ERYT-200, RYT-500 and YACEP levels. I have been teaching yoga and mediation since 2009, with specializations in yoga for back care and for seniors, pregnancy yoga, and yoga and for those experiencing post traumatic and combat stress disorders. I am currently continuing my exploration of yoga by studying anatomy and yoga therapeutics. I am available for private consultation. |
Yoga Retreat Centre
--Yoga and meditation retreat centre in the west of Ireland: Burren Yoga
In the World of Yoga:
--2017 research suggests that yoga can reverse the DNA level molecular actions that cause ill health and depression
-- Harvard researchers reveal the brain-changing power of meditation (2015)
--yoga appears to counteract the effects of chronic pain on the brain. Read more here.
--gentle yoga classes do not seem to affect hot flashes in menopausal women, but they do improve sleep. Read about it here.
--meditation seems to increase the size of the pre-frontal cortex and can potentially improve willpower. You can read about that in a Yoga Journal article here and watch Dr. Kelly McGonigal's TED talk on this subject here. It is problematic to me that a scientist and yoga teacher whose work is described as the science of compassion cites research involving people shocking rats' brains with electrodes. Does animal research fall under ahimsa ? (October 2013).
--a California decision that teaching yoga in schools does not constitute teaching religion (July 2013).
--art exhibit, yoga the art of transformation at the Freer-Sackler/Smithsonian museum. (Fall 2013)
--a photo essay by Robert Sturman, an American artist who has documented the work of the Africa Yoga Project in Kenya. (May 2013)
--Yoga and meditation retreat centre in the west of Ireland: Burren Yoga
In the World of Yoga:
--2017 research suggests that yoga can reverse the DNA level molecular actions that cause ill health and depression
-- Harvard researchers reveal the brain-changing power of meditation (2015)
--yoga appears to counteract the effects of chronic pain on the brain. Read more here.
--gentle yoga classes do not seem to affect hot flashes in menopausal women, but they do improve sleep. Read about it here.
--meditation seems to increase the size of the pre-frontal cortex and can potentially improve willpower. You can read about that in a Yoga Journal article here and watch Dr. Kelly McGonigal's TED talk on this subject here. It is problematic to me that a scientist and yoga teacher whose work is described as the science of compassion cites research involving people shocking rats' brains with electrodes. Does animal research fall under ahimsa ? (October 2013).
--a California decision that teaching yoga in schools does not constitute teaching religion (July 2013).
--art exhibit, yoga the art of transformation at the Freer-Sackler/Smithsonian museum. (Fall 2013)
--a photo essay by Robert Sturman, an American artist who has documented the work of the Africa Yoga Project in Kenya. (May 2013)