Abhyanga is a traditional Ayurvedic therapy, that involves massage of the body with large amounts of warm, medicated oils to the body, to soothe and nourish the body at the deepest cellular level through the skin, the largest organ. Abhyanga uses the skin as a conduit to transport medicine and herbs into the body to …
How a silent 10-day Vipassana can help you I’d been toying with the idea of a ten-day vipassana silent retreat for a while now. Having battled a serious illness for a number of years I had changed my life to be more focused on health and well being, taken up yoga, trained as a Yoga …
Ruseri Dat Ton is a traditional Thai practice that has been dubbed as Thai yoga, in part due to its similarities to Hatha yoga. Ruseri Dat Ton literally translated means “Hermit’s self stretching exercise”. It was named this as hermits and ascetics have used it for many hundreds of years. It’s an ancient practice that …
It’s possible to classify the yoga posture according to different criteria.
If we classify them according to their function, we can divide them in this way:
Samastithi
Pashimatana
Purvatana
Pashva
Parivritti
Viparita
Vishesa
Samasthiti
Sama means “equal” and sthiti means “to be, to stay”.
