Category: Yoga lifestyle
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#YogaDay: be happy!
On this third International Yoga Day Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi prepared us with some beautiful thoughts on yoga: ‘The world is in war and materialism, but India gave the world love with yoga’. Yoga is tremendously popular these days and is practiced everywhere on the globe. Yoga is the journey of the…
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Inner peace
“The greatest disease is the absence of peace. When the mind is peaceful, your body will be healthy. So everyone who craves for good health must pay attention to their emotions, feelings, and motives that animates them. Just as you wash clothes, you must wash your mind free from dirt every day. To cleanse your…
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Thoughts & senses
Living in awareness starts with information that broadens our minds. This can come to us in different ways; a story told by a friend, a book, a mantra, or maybe even a film or documentary. Our brain starts to create new connections or is renewing old lost links. At that very moment the proces of…
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The secret cause of obesity
Many people don’t know this, but most weight issues have the exact same cause. We can see a lot of persons struggle with their weight, even famous ones who battle in public. They eat only healthy food, eat less and count calories, they are running and doing all kinds off healthy activities; but they still struggle. That…
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The first 3 steps towards healing
The best way to self healing is to take one step at the time on the path of yoga, and to have a lot of patience. Though it is possible to take a shortcut on this interesting road of self-realization: turn inwards. Look for healing inside, not outside yourself. These are the first 3 steps…
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High Sensitivity and yoga
As a child psychologist and a high sensitive person myself, this subject really comes from the heart. One out of 4 children has a form of high sensitivity these days, that means that a huge amount of children absorb all the energy of their surroundings! And our lifestyles have changed a lot during these last decades;…
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Yoga from The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita teaches us about ‘yoga off the mat’ like I described before in ‘Yoga is a lifestyle‘. You can read the Bhagavad Gita in your own special way, there are no ‘goods’ and ‘bads’. Your own interpretation is the best for you at that moment. And sometimes you read a text one day…
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Yoga is a lifestyle
When we think of ‘yoga’, we are automatically directed to an image in our mind of a person that is doing asanas on a yoga mat. That is ‘yoga’ for most people in Europe, and if you are lucky the yoga school also teaches meditation and pranayama, like in most Indian schools. Yoga is so…
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Mandala coloring to brighten the mind
Between working in health care, helping people on their personal path of healing, writing, cooking meals and taking pictures, designing, blogging and doing research, I really love to color Mandala’s. It is the perfect way to brighten the brain, to tame the monkey mind and to recharge my battery with prana. In a way it…
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Tagore’s magic
‘You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long’. Rabindranath Tagore Mesmerized I watched these words of Tagore for a long time. I knew his name, I knew his music and I knew about his special student-focused school, but I never red one of his…
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