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The studio will close on Wednesday the 14th December 2011 for the Xmas break and open again on Monday the 16th January 2012. Thank you for your support this year, and may we all continue the journey together next year
Yoga in its finality is about the control of the mind. Upon the undertaking of yoga the mind becomes your mirror, and as that mirror becomes...
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In April this year a large group from the Mana Centre spent a weekend away on a retreat in Clarence in the Free State. We left on the Friday and booked...
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Hypnotherapy is the art of suggestion, under altered states of consciousness. Clients are seen on a private basis, therefore it is necessary...
MoreBHAGAVAD GITA CHAP.6 VERSE 44 - 46
By the very former practice he is led on in spite of himself. Even he who merely wishes to know of yoga rises superior to the performer of Vedic rites. The yogi, who strives with assiduity, purified from sins and perfected through many births reaches then the Supreme Goal. The yogi is deemed superior to ascetics, superior to men of knowledge even; he is also superior to ritualists. Therefore be you a yogi, O Arjuna
BHAGAVAD GITA CHAP.2 VERSE 62 - 64
Brooding on the objects of senses, man develops attachment to them; from attachment comes desire; from desire anger sprouts forth. From anger proceeds delusion; from delusion, confused memory; from confused memory the ruin of reason; due to the ruin of reason he perishes. But the disciplined yogi, moving among objects with the senses under control, and free from attraction and aversion, gains in tranquillity.
Yoga having made an resurgence during the last 7years, has emerged as the most holistic form of exercise. Its efficacy has long been proven, since it is eons old.
However it is only beneficial if practiced with understanding, and not purely as an exercise. The asanas/postures that is so popularised, form only one leg of the eight that is yoga. Yoga is not a discipline that should be presented in fitness centres as they invariably only focus on the asanas.
The postures should be practiced with the aim of having an undisturbed body during meditation. Over the last 25 years that I have been teaching yoga, I have seen many wonderful things happen to the practitioners of yoga. It has great benefits on all levels of life, most of all on the mind. It is from the mind and thought that our lives, however we live it ensues.
