Archive for August, 2007
I learned more about patience in yoga class
Posted by Jack in Newsletter on 1 August 2007
“Jack said it would take about 6 months for my fexibility to improve — actually I didn’t believe him at first! In the beginning you think that some of the poses are almost impossible to achieve, you think ‘how can my body ever do that?’ But he was right, it’s been 6 months and I’m just starting [...]
A Yoga pose teaches patience
Posted by Jack in Newsletter on 1 August 2007
There has been one particular posture that I have not been able to complete on my left side from the beginning of my Ashtanga practice over 9 years ago. In Ardha Baddha PadmottasanaI have not been able to grab my big toe from behind my back and fold forward. Long ago I accepted [...]
Deepak Chopra’s “Perfect Health”
Posted by Jack in Books, Newsletter on 1 August 2007
In “Perfect Health” Chopra explains how Ayurvedic medicine can help people acheive perfect health and bring the body to homeostasis.
Ayurvedic medicine is a system of medicine that originated in India several thousand years ago. The term Ayurveda combines two Sanskrit words: ayur which means life, and veda, which means science of knowledge. Ayurveda means “the [...]