Tag: samadhi
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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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Nature & Yoga
It is that funny feeling in your stomach when you are outside. Almost magic. You can feel that the wind is telling you a story. The water is crying for help, but you leave it beside you because ‘this couldn’t be possible’. But it is possible: nature is communicating with us. How could that be?…
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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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Magic stress-release
Just five minutes of stress-release self-massage on these two reflection points can completely change your whole mood. It gives an instant feeling of deep relaxation and helps you forget about all worries and stressful situations. The mind is at rest and the body becomes healthy. I strongly believe that we have a powerful healing force…
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Important day: Shivaratri
Very strong energy yesterday night and today during Shivaratri and New Moon. A perfect moment to do deep meditation and strong asana, but also a detox with only raw food and water. This helps cleaning the inner energy which will have it’s outcome on the outer energy and our experiences. The lighter the energy, the…
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Sattvic, vegan, low carb & no fat bowl
With light food we get happy thoughts. The Sattvic yoga diet and yoga lifestyle isn’t just for our bodies, but also our minds: we eat to clean our system physically and energetically. This brings us easier between thoughts in a state of samadhi during yoga and meditation practice. This vegan salad bowl is super light…
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The Moon & the mind
In two days the moon will be full again. And we all know how important the moon is for our existence: without the moon there would be no seasons and even female fertility depends on the moon. Our life is possible because of the moon. Though not many of us know that the moon was…
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Your best Sattvic snack
The best snack according to the yoga-diet or Sattvic lifestyle, is eating fresh, organic natural food like fruits, yoghurt, nuts and seeds. This bowl has creamy organic yoghurt with a topping of mandarin, kiwi, cashew, banana, sesame seeds and raisins and could make a good breakfast, lunch or dinner too, since it is advised to eat…