If I was to give an answer on the spot, I would immediately say 'yes'. However, I propose a broader consideration: if you have a business that sells products, information is certainly crucial. The more you get into the lives of your potential customers, the better.
Read MoreTrue meditation is a state of presence. It's not a means to find something, it's more aimless research. Goals pollute research, creates an idea of a false harbour, puts the emphasis on some arrival that does not actually exist, causing the true value of the way to be lost.
Read MoreHeaven and Earth are two very powerful symbols that have intersected every culture and that still survive in our language and mind with the same evocative force of our origin.
Read MoreI do not believe that there is any hope that concerns the evolution of the human being's conscience as a whole.
Read MoreThe quadrupeds, ground movements, crawling, are the foundations of human movement. These movements are the first that the child acquires, then learns to climb to an upright position, and finally learns to walk.
Read MoreWith the raising trend of “social media yoga” full of yoga challenges and asana that resemble more a contorsionist performance than anything else, the asana known as trikonasana (triangle pose) is a little bit like the yogic equivalent of the “girl-next-door”: too simple uh?
Read MoreIn this era of specializations and divisions aimed at making the human being a little ignorant tool, I would like to spend a few lines to swim against the tide. The intent of our school today is to oppose ignorance and division.
Read MoreIt's raining. It's cold and nothing makes me want to put my running shoes on and get out. I decide go anyway and while I'm putting on a windbreaker, the zipper breaks. Here's another clear signal telling me to leave it, maybe tomorrow it's going to be sunny and I won't need this useless jacket.
Read MoreThe first 2 of the 8 steps of Ashtanga as defined by Patanjali are Yamas and Nyamas and enclose the ethics and the correct lifestyle to follow when deciding to undertake the path of Yoga in a more or less serious way. These are not esoteric indications particularly difficult to obtain, but you have to commit a little ' to understand really their meaning.
Read MoreThere are many differences between executing lifting or transporting movements of objects that possess an easy grip (such as a cat bell) and objects of a more natural shape such as stones or trunks; it depends on the intent of the practice.
Read MoreHari-Om is a little bit more than a Yoga school specialized in teacher training, in truth, it’s more like a big, extended tribe , made of individuals connected by a similar and out of the ordinary approach to life in general.
Read MoreSpring is on its way and with it, here come an army of good intentions to face the transition from winter to summer in the best possible way, even if all you want to do is take naps when you’re not going around sporting a big red bulge instead of your nose and teary eyes, thanks to pollen allergies.
Read MoreAs we grow older, we progressively lose the ability to concentrate and focus. The body loses its ability to move because the muscles have less tone and the joints become less flexible. The balance becomes more precarious.
Read MoreWelcoming a new Moon is like starting the life cycle again. Every month the Moon rises,wanes and disappears, this endless cycle makes the Moon the “queen” of renewal and regeneration because its death is never permanent, the Moon always resurrects. These features make the moon, the symbol of transformation and growth.
Read MoreIf there is a powerful practice on all levels, physical and mental, yoga is the discipline that catapults us into ourselves. Therefore, yoga practiced during pregnancy becomes even more enlightening. In the gestation period, the sensitivity in women increases considerably, as if instinct and intuition were more enhanced.
Read MoreInverted positions in Yoga
How many of you started practicing yoga after seeing a picture of someone doing a headstand (Sirsasana) or handstand (Adho Mukha Vrksasana), fascinated by the balance and focus of those practicing them? And how often, at the very introduction of a beginner’s course, yoga teachers are asked by students if they’re going to teach them to go upside down?
Read MoreIn the last few years, teaching yoga has become an ever growing trend, so much so that sooner or later there will be only teachers and no students! Just kidding of course, usually a good percentage of people who sign up to Yoga Teacher Training simply wish to improve their practice and maybe teach to family and friends.
Read MoreIt’s almost impossible to grab the whole loot, there’s always someone stealing the Gioconda from your bag, leaving you speechless and stunned like a fish on a Big Mac hook. A plastic one.
Oh Well. This is how it is. The beneficial effect of NYE spent at Cascina Bellaria got stuck in my heart.
Read MoreToday is the first day of our winter opening and I'm happy to start this new adventure with a group of 200 hour training members more numerous than the previous years.
We’re approaching the end of the year and many things change and evolve and quite rightly so. For a while 'I had the pleasure of writing about what I liked and was using the school’s social network to do it but this is the last "post".
Read MoreOf course, poverty is rather an illness than bad luck, for which you are responsible in the first place and that surely you must cure.
The topic is never discussed much during Yoga workshops although the money inflow and outflow is as much a crucial aspect of living well and in harmony as the study of Patanjali’s Sutra, of Gita and of the good energy flow through Mudra and Pranayama.
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