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Yoga with Lou Rajhas Iyengar – Our New YouTube Channel

My name is Lou Rajhas Iyengar, I live in Arles and teach in our school Studio Yoga Arles with my husband Rajhas Iyengar.This YouTube channel is meant to share what […]

Pranayama and its relation to Asana

Pranayama is a compound word comprising two words, Prana and Ayama.Prana is the vital energy, that which distinguishes animate things from inanimate things. Animate things absorb energy from their surroundings, […]

Healing the heart through yoga

Through the practice of Yoga, one experiences a series of progressive transformations in the quality of the mind. We are not made up of different minds. The same mind goes […]

Understanding gunas to find balance in your life

Everything in Prakriti consists of three gunas (qualities). In western understanding this is close to “energy”. These three qualities are present in all objects to varying degrees. One quality is […]

7 body parts to know in Sanskrit to memorize the names of yoga postures

Posture names are sometimes difficult to remember for a beginner. By learning a few basic Sanskrit words, one can easily decipher the names of the most common asanas and thus […]