Downward Facing Blog

Nauli kriya is hatha yoga’s most important practice but it is rarely taught and difficult to master.
Daily practice will help lift your energy, improve posture, speed up digestion, and really make your yoga FLY

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Everything in your perception is made up of the five elements, either on a subtle level such as in the form of thoughts and dreams, or in a gross form such as in the way we interact with physical reality; like your body.
Those five elements are space, air, fire, water, and earth. Notice that it […]

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Most visitors to Bangkok will likely notice the Brahma shrine at the Erawan hotel. If you’re on the skytrain as it passes by on it’s way to Siam station, there are always a few near the window who raise their hands into a prayer and tilt their chins downwards in respect.

I remember my first trip […]

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Teaching and practicing yoga in Bangkok has always been interesting when I found words in Thai that are the same or very similar to Sanskrit.
For example, the second yoga sutra: “yoga chitta vritti nirodha-ha”… easy for Thais because they know the words Chitta = jit (”consciousness”) and Nirodh (”not being born/ceasing”)
Some recent inspiration has had […]

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Yoga is a goal and a practice. Maybe our practice takes us to the goal, maybe it doesn’t. Like I’ve written on before, the more we immerse ourselves in altered states consciously; the greater the level of positive detachment, and the higher our creativity.
However, Yoga is a high level practice aimed at Self-realization and the […]

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No, I’m not going to start eating meat. In fact, I’m more in-love with being vegetarian than ever. That however, is for another post.
The sacred cow is a thread I’m on lately about questioning religion. Spirituality should be taught like gym class, or mathmatics. Why not? Isn’t it common parlance to say mind, body, soul? […]

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