Tag: mantra
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Morning Routine
For practicing yoga, the most important moment of the day is early morning. Everybody creates their own perfect morning routine (sadhana), which does not always include asanas. Just sitting, meditating, chanting a mantra or three times AUM, using a singing bowl or do pranayama, will do the job perfectly. Early morning is the best moment…
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The love of sound
Our fourth published book ‘Love of Sound’ or in Dutch ‘Liefde van klank’, about the mysterious healing effect of music, chanting and sound. Dhroeh opens the book of some mystic Indian ancient secrets concerning humanity, our existence and the loving effect of sound. It explains the connection of mantra chanting and the path of yoga…
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Navratri is a special time for every woman
Of course Navratri is seen as a hindu celebration. Of course. And that is true. But what we celebrate comes from ancient texts of a time before Hinduism even existed. It is for every woman in the universe. What we celebrate is Divine female energy, our Source. We all came from the same womb of…
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Is God female?
We are so used to say ‘He’ or ‘Him’ when we talk about a higher consciousness, the higher intelligence or God. But is God male? Or is ‘he’ female? When we go back to very ancient spiritual texts, we can see that there is no difference between what we call ‘him’: God, the Creator or…
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New moon: mind at rest & easy meditation
Today is New Moon and this means that meditation is going easy, lightly and deep. We can go into a fast samadhi because of the small moon. Why is this? Mind is moon. In vedic texts the Moon God is representing the mind. We are all connected with energy; what is taking place in cosmos…
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Corona: nature as our only back up
Since there is no cure in the form of a medicine or vaccin against the corona virus yet, the only thing we can do is fall back to nature and strengthen our immune system. Hippocrates, founder of modern medicine taught us that the only thing that can really heal us is being outside in nature,…
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Strengthen your immune system to protect yourself from the virus with ‘golden milk’!
Seeing the fact that our immune system is the only defence we have at this moment during the corona crisis, I would like to give you some nice yoga lifestyle tips to boost your immune system. Of course you need to protect yourself by distancing from others, washing your hands regularly and take care of…
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Every yoga practitioner should celebrate Shivaratri
Tomorrow is Shivaratri. Shiva is the God of Yoga. He gave us thousands and thousands of years ago the deep and mysterious Yoga Science, as in meditation, chanting mantra’s, asanas, pranayama and every other single element of yoga practice. He also taught us about the Yoga Lifestyle and Sattvic food, this is very important during…
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Breaking with old patterns
We all have them: those patterns we want to break with. Like unhealthy eating habits or constantly putting ourselves down in our thoughts ‘I can’t wear this, I am too fat’ or ‘I am never capable of doing that’. These are normal patterns which we have formed throughout our whole lives. All our life-experiences influence…
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