Basic Facts: 1) Yoga Alliance does not certify yoga teachers nor does it provide accreditation of trainers or training schools. 2) Yoga Alliance does not assess or certify teaching competency. It provides a registry, which is a list. 3) Neither teachers nor trainers are required to be registered with Yoga Alliance or any other organization. Teaching and studio insurance may be obtained without...
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Govardhan, December 2018
Anna: Please tell us what Shiva means to you. How is an image and worshipping of Shiva came to your life?
Guruji: I was born in Bharadvaj Gotra, our family God is Shiva. Even...
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Wild Yogi Magazine: You are the organizer of the Berlin Yoga Conference. Tell us about this experience. Why did you decide to make it? What...
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Our life is often like a movie, as we can look at one frame, or moment, and then find a whole episode waiting to be rediscovered. Some moments...</div></div></div>
Presenting my joined work with the project neuroyogalab.ru.
For the first trial research project we chose a complex technique which out of convenience we decided to call with a shorter name of “prana-dharana”. “Prana-dharana” is especially interesting as it combines the most powerful parts of yoga practice “kriya yoga in Lahiri Mahasaya lineage” which includes techniques described...
Karur, Tamil Nadu, april 2007
Questions - Ilya Zhuravlev
Translation from tamil - Dr. M.Madhavan
We have a great interest in the tradition of Tamil Siddhas. Are there yoga practices described in ancient texts still present in the tradition, or modern tradition is mainly involved in medicine now?
There are people practicing yoga, but mainly they live in the woods and prefer not...
“I’m registered in the USA Yoga Alliance". What really stands behind that sentence – a real authority or fake “stars on yoga shoulder straps”? Let’s try to answer this question.
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USA Yoga Alliance – is an American public controlling organization...
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Vagish Shastri (also known as Dr. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi) is an international Sanskrit grammarian, eminent linguist, Tantric and yogi. He was born in the city of Khurai, in Madhya Pradesh in 1934. His primary education was in Khurai, followed by his education in Vrindavan and Benaras. He started his teaching career...
In the minds of most people there is a certain vision of saints as some ideal people who don’t possess any of the weaknesses that other people have. But when you get a chance to live with actual saints you start to realize that in some way they are still a bit like regular people. The difference appears when you stop judging them from the point of view of general morale. But if you look through a...
Shortly before the Breath of the Gods premiere, a documentary about Krishnamacharya, we have interviewed Alexander Smirkin, who teaches Ashtanga Yoga in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Prana Ashtanga Yoga School (Moscow). He has been one of the Russian translation team of this film. Having studied the history of this method for a long time, he has concluded that many events described in...
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