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Find your way to freedom
Yoga and Ayurveda for Therapy
What’s the deal with the funny breathing?
Meditation back to basics
In ancient India, a young boy would leave home to study with the family guru in his forest ashram. There is a story about one such boy who watched from the forest as the surrounding countryside and villages were devastated by a series of natural disasters. Upset by what he had seen, the boy asked his guru: “Why do these terrible things happen?”
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According to Yoga and Ayurveda, the purpose of therapy is to act against illness or disease so that the human system is restored to balance. There is no doubt that the human system is a complex one, and thus, by its nature, the subject of therapy is often complex.
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A few weeks back I had a new student in my class who had some yoga experience, but hadn’t before practiced with our approach. At the end of class on asking if there were any questions he promptly asked “what is the reason for making the funny sound when we breathe?”
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Full–time workers who used a traditional ‘silent’ form of meditation became much less stressed and depressed compared to more conventional approaches to relaxation or even placebo, according to a paper published in the online journal Evidence Based Complementary Medicine, a leading publication in its field.
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