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India trip 2018 - Yoga/Meditation messages to students in colleges and schools

Namaste, Hope you all are doing well and had a good summer break. I just returned from a short trip to India.  One of the reasons I took this trip was to meet some of my long lost buddies during our Silver Jubilee Meet at NIT, Warangal. During this trip, I had opportunity to visit many 'yoga' related places such as Ramakrishna Math, Bellur, Patanjali temple, Shri Shri Ravi Shankar Ashram etc.  I also had an opportunity to visit a few different colleges and schools and talk to students about many topics related to yoga/meditation, managing stress, leading a principle centered life with yamas/niyamas, focusing on quadrant-2 activities (Stephen Covey), applying four streams of yoga during all walks of your life, how to be successful in corporate life etc.  It was a wonderful feeling talking to all these students, conducting yoga classes, giving these messages, sponsoring yoga/meditation teachers and scholarships for schools students in my village etc. I captured som...

International Day of Yoga (June 21, 2018)

Namaste, Wish you all a very happy International Day of Yoga. Please take a moment on this day to express your gratitude to all your teachers and everyone else who had a profound impact on you in imparting all the yogic knowledge and lifestyle.  Let us remind ourselves that yoga is a lot more than physical postures and as Swami Vivekananda beautifully put it -  it can be work (Karma Yoga), worship (Bhakti Yoga), philosophy (Jnana Yoga) and/or psychic control (Raja Yoga, that’s where all your poses are :-)). My gratitude first goes to my dad and Yogasri NV Raghuram from who I had the opportunity to learn many things directly. There are several other gurus who also had profound impact on me through their publications, talks, recordings and messages and sincere thanks to all of them – Swami Vivekananda, Swami Sivananda, Swami Bodhananda Saraswati, BKS Iyengar, TKV Desikachar, Swami Brahmananda, Dr. MA Jayashree, Brahmasri Chaganti Koteswara Rao to name a few. Thanks to ...

Patanjali Yoga Sutras - Sadhana (1.13 tatra sthitau yatno-‘bhyāsaḥ and 1.14 sa tu dīrghakāla nairantarya satkāra-ādara-āsevito dṛḍhabhūmiḥ)

Namaste everyone, Yoga Bharati Milpitas team wishes you all a very happy and healthy new year. We hope that you all are enjoying the winter break and spending some quality time with friends and family. This is the time many of us make important resolutions. Some of us are good at keeping them, but many of us aren’t and the resolutions start to wear off after a few weeks. We would like to just give some suggestions to keep up your ‘yoga practice’ resolution. We have been blessed over the last several years to have listened to many gurus about leading happy, healthy and peaceful lives. Many gurus provide these messages in their own beautiful way, based on their lineage, personal experiences and other aspects. One of the important aspects all of them talk about is the importance of ‘ Sadhana ’ or ‘a strict discipline of a routine practice’. Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga discusses in depth about Sadhana required to go from outward interactions (Yamas) to deep state of absorption (Sa...