Category Archives: Asanas (Postures)

Inside Yoga 12

(First published 30/08/2008) In yoga one of the most important keys that will unlock your understanding of this practice is the breath. In  “Hathayoga Pradipika”,  a practical treatise on yoga, the author stresses importance of breath by saying that “if the mind is the king of the senses, the master of the mind is the [...]

Inside Yoga 11

(First published 28/7/2008) Over the last few months I have introduced hatha yoga and its eight limbs or parts, with the aim of presenting an overview of yoga and hatha yoga. In the next chapters I intend to focus on various parts of yoga:  returning in this chapter to hatha yoga’s third limb – asana [...]

Inside Yoga 5

(First published 8/3/2008) Following on from the last chapter, which introduced the third limb of hatha yoga, asanas. Learning how to perform asanas does take time. I started learning yoga in India, at the start of 1995, and I saw the teacher every day, and would practice in my room every day as well. In [...]