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YOGA SHALA

WELCOME TO THE
AMANDARI JOURNAL
Reflections on Mindfulness & Yoga
from past classes
for your inspiration
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Live Strong: Practicing the 5 Strengths
Around about the year 900AD, an Indian teacher named Atisha came up with a very detailed outline of how we can all practice mindfulness. ...
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How do we "let go of our ego"?
There are a couple of phrases or words you will hear thrown about in meditation and mindfulness circles. We have mentioned a couple of...
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Yin Yang & Ayurveda: Stay cool as a cucumber this summer ...
Mixing up our Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda (well, why not?) we talk a little about Yin & Yang, hot & cold, winter & summer,...
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Walk as if you're Kissing the Earth with your Feet - more on the wonderful practice of Gatha
Gatha is a sanskrit word for 'song' or 'verse', and is a meditative poem or verse used in contemporary mindfulness practice. It has its...
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Breathing Meditation - The Wonderful Practice of Gatha
Gatha is a Sanskrit word used to describe verse or meditative poem. It comes from the word Gai, which means to sing or recite. The...
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Meditation with strong Emotions
Sometimes we find ourselves having to face strong emotions. This can cause our thoughts to churn around and around in our mind,...
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Equanimity
What is equanimity? Equanimity is a quality of the mind and the heart that is impartiality. Equanimity is the quality of mind that...
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How to generate bodhicitta / compassion through meditation
Bodhicitta: Compassion, altruism. What is compassion? If you search the word 'compassion', one of the descriptions that comes up is: ...
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Can we silence the mind?
It’s very common to hear people say that, in meditation, we must quieten or silence the mind and search within for answers. Yet according...
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Beginner's Mind
"In the Beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few" In his book, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu...
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