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yoga elements studio Newsletter
  August 2008

Namaste Greetings!
Allow me to introduce this month’s hot yoga goddess; mother KALI:

In Tantric yoga  practice, a preliminary technique is to sanctify the entire phenomenal world as the divine feminine. If you care not to delineate different aspects […]

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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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