http://www.yogzilla.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:06:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stuff. It simply bothers me. It never used to, a few years ago. The first time it felt plain dumb to have Stuff was when I had to downsize my apartment into two suitcases a couple of years ago. It took me a while to sell and give away things ... http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/10/26/the-story-of-stuff/ A few yogi friends of mine and I got curious about Yoga Makaranda and decided to find it. After a long and hard search for it, we did find Yoga Makaranda. Along with that we also happened to find Yogasanagalu. Both these books are written in Kannada. I happened to ... http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/10/07/yoga-makaranda-and-yogasangalu/ I recently moved back to San Francisco, pretty much the Yoga capital of the world besides LA and a few other places. The entire yoga scene here feels so fake. I feel like I have been dropped into a thick goo of yoga talk, veganism, raw food, partner yoga and ... http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/10/07/san-francisco-yoga/ http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/08/14/shanti-mantra/ This obstacles are disease, idleness, doubt, heedlessness, sloth, lack of detachment, erroneous conception, not attaining any yogic stage, and instability to stay in a yogic stage. They are the distractions of the mind. “Anything that prevents the yogin from cultivating the attitude of inward-mindedness [pratyakcetana] is considered an obstacle, be it ... http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/08/02/which-came-first-yoga-or-the-obstacles-to-attaining-it/ tatas - thence pratyak-cetana - reverse/inward-mindedness (from prati + ac is to bend + cit is to be conscious) adhigama - attainment (from adhi + gam is to go) api - also antaraya - impediment,obstacle ( from antar is between + i is to go, lit. get between) abhava - disappearance (from a + bhu ... http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/07/14/inwardbound/ The power adapter of my notebook computer went kaput. I cannot be online or use my computer for anything else. Just when I was getting to amp up my job search in my regular day job of software development, it goes dead. All of a sudden I have so much ... http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/06/23/addiction/ The importance of Iśvara has been explored in the last 6 sutras I.23, I.24,  I.25, I.26,  I.27,   I.28.  The previous sutra wraps the topic of Iśvara for now. We are discussing the first chapter out of four chapters in Yoga Sutras.  Patañjali is explaining what is Yoga, ... http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/06/22/its-a-wrap/ Ashtanga        $20 Bikram            $20 Flow                 $14 Swimming      $5 Running          Free Walking           Free, my favorite! **Vancouver rates, per session Yoga is definitely an elite activity, you got to make tons of money to spend on a yoga class. http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/06/18/yoga-is-for-the-rich/ I like this trailer a lot. May be I will watch it sometime this summer. Kung fu cult says, everything is Kung fu, just like the Yoga cult. http://www.yogzilla.com/2010/06/15/the-karate-kid/