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Namaste Dear Readers, Please take note that Dancing Chi Yoga has moved and changed it's name to The Peaceful Being and will be fully unpacked by September 15, 2011, at it's new URL address www.thepeacefulbeing.com Please remember that if you... Read Full Story

In the early days of my yoga practice, one of the first things I noticed was the definite effect (both positive and negative, depending on the day) my breathing rhythm was having on my overall yogic experience. Once I started... Read Full Story

May 28th, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International. What began as a movement between one human being and one thought - in which to protect the dignity and human rights of those imprisioned for their beliefs, Amnesty International... Read Full Story

1427490115_38c81a2685 Swami (Sri Gurudev) Satchidananda came to the world's attention as the opening speaker at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in 1969. He was also the founder of The Integral Yoga Institute and Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville in Buckingham County, Virginia. Read Full Story

It was kismet, really, that my subscription for My Yoga Online started on the biggest snow day that Toronto has seen in years. As I was housebound and had missed the Yin Yang yoga class that I was planning to... Read Full Story

Just for now, without asking how, let yourself into stillness. just for now, lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders. Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of the sky grow even wider as... Read Full Story

Ok, so January has arrived and we've just taken the Christmas tree down. The holidays are finally over, I've set my intentions for the coming year and look forward to starting January with a healthy bang. For some of us it's a return to fitness and clean eating. Perhaps joining or returning to the gym or yoga studio. For others, it might be a full-on detox as a way of cleansing and renewing the system. For myself, it's all about balance - rolling out the yoga mat, taking a bit more time to... Read Full Story

This Christmas I decided to go Retro. For the most part of the last ten or so years, the holidays have felt a bit unsettled for me. As my husband and I started out as a long distance relationship, there were many years of travel between two continents and feelings of not ever really being anywhere. Over the past decade whether or not we would be together for Christmas always required a lot of stategic planning and compromising Read Full Story

Today I've decided to leave my yoga mat in the corner in order to write you this letter. As I write these words, it occurs to me how very lucky I am to be able to freely express myself in my daily life as well as in the pages that I write. If I'm being completely honest, it's not really something, that, on a day to day basis, I really give much thought to. Like a lot of people in the west, I simply take it for granted that I have this liberty. Many others are not so lucky. Read Full Story

Kundalini Yoga is a highly developed spiritual science and is more than a just set of physical postures. Kundalini moves beyond the physical world, emphasising breathing, meditation, chanting and mudras. Kundalini Yoga has been called The Yoga Of Awareness because of it's direction towards one's creative potential, self-knowledge, intuition and consciousness. Read Full Story