Kaivalya Yoga Feed Stay informed of the latest happenings at Kaivalya Yoga & Massage 2012-05-20T13:30:00Z Kaivalya Yoga info@kaivalya-yoga.com http://www.kaivalya-yoga.com/ ky:rss:1323819000 2011-12-13T23:30:00Z Introducing the Kaivalya Yoga RSS Feed Subscribe to this RSS feed to stay informed of the latest happenings at Kaivalya Yoga & Massage! ky:rss:1323873000 2011-12-14T14:30:00Z QotD "Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light." ky:rss:1323959400 2011-12-15T14:30:00Z QotD "An attitude of gratitude brings opportunities." ky:rss:1324045800 2011-12-16T14:30:00Z QotD "To be calm is the highest achievement of the self." ky:rss:1324132200 2011-12-17T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. -Sting ky:rss:1324218600 2011-12-18T14:30:00Z QotD The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. -B.K.S Iyengar ky:rss:1324305000 2011-12-19T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. -Baxter Bell ky:rss:1324391400 2011-12-20T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. -Indra Devi ky:rss:1324477800 2011-12-21T14:30:00Z QotD Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. -Krishnamacharya ky:rss:1324564200 2011-12-22T14:30:00Z QotD This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. -Bhagavad Gita ky:rss:1324650600 2011-12-23T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. -Donna FARHI ky:rss:1324731600 2011-12-24T13:00:00Z Closed Kaivalya will be closed for Christmas, December 24 - 26 ky:rss:1324737000 2011-12-24T14:30:00Z QotD Karma yoga is a supreme secret indeed. -Bhagavad Gita ky:rss:1324823400 2011-12-25T14:30:00Z QotD "Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light." ky:rss:1324909800 2011-12-26T14:30:00Z QotD "There is nothing more precious than the self." ky:rss:1324996200 2011-12-27T14:30:00Z QotD "Life is a flow of love; your participation is requested." ky:rss:1325082600 2011-12-28T14:30:00Z QotD The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted. -Rabindranath Tagore ky:rss:1325169000 2011-12-29T14:30:00Z QotD If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. -Jack Kornfield ky:rss:1325255400 2011-12-30T14:30:00Z QotD "Appreciate yourself and honor your soul." ky:rss:1325341800 2011-12-31T14:30:00Z QotD You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. -Sharon Gannon ky:rss:1325422800 2012-01-01T13:00:00Z Closed Kaivalya will be closed for New Years, January 1 - 2 ky:rss:1325428200 2012-01-01T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga Science is not just a scholarly pursuit. It is a moment by moment and thought by thought practical guide for living. -Leonard Perlmutter ky:rss:1325514600 2012-01-02T14:30:00Z QotD Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. -Kareem Abdul Jabbar ky:rss:1325601000 2012-01-03T14:30:00Z QotD "Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is." ky:rss:1325687400 2012-01-04T14:30:00Z QotD Enormous possibilities for health and creativity are held captive by your likes and dislikes. Inspecting your desires and attachments to food and making choices intuitively with discrimination will make your spiritual practice and every other relationship more rewarding. -Leonard Perlmutter ky:rss:1325773800 2012-01-05T14:30:00Z QotD "When you know that all is light, you are enlightened." ky:rss:1325860200 2012-01-06T14:30:00Z QotD When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence." -Unknown ky:rss:1325946600 2012-01-07T14:30:00Z QotD In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice they are not. -Yogi Berra ky:rss:1326033000 2012-01-08T14:30:00Z QotD Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought... -Unknown ky:rss:1326119400 2012-01-09T14:30:00Z QotD When I started doing asana, the yoga postures, I had a very strong feeling of many unnecessary things dropping away - especially tension and inadequacy. -Patricia Sullivan ky:rss:1326205800 2012-01-10T14:30:00Z QotD Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. -Buddha quotes ky:rss:1326292200 2012-01-11T14:30:00Z QotD By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. -Phillip Moffitt ky:rss:1326378600 2012-01-12T14:30:00Z QotD What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant. -Donna Farhi ky:rss:1326465000 2012-01-13T14:30:00Z QotD The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. -Liza Ciano ky:rss:1326551400 2012-01-14T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. -Baxter Bell ky:rss:1326637800 2012-01-15T14:30:00Z QotD This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. -Bhagavad Gita ky:rss:1326810600 2012-01-17T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. -Donna FARHI ky:rss:1326983400 2012-01-19T14:30:00Z QotD Karma yoga is a supreme secret indeed. -Bhagavad Gita ky:rss:1327156200 2012-01-21T14:30:00Z QotD "Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light." ky:rss:1327329000 2012-01-23T14:30:00Z QotD "There is nothing more precious than the self." ky:rss:1327501800 2012-01-25T14:30:00Z QotD "Life is a flow of love; your participation is requested." ky:rss:1327674600 2012-01-27T14:30:00Z QotD The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted. -Rabindranath Tagore ky:rss:1327847400 2012-01-29T14:30:00Z QotD If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. -Jack Kornfield ky:rss:1328020200 2012-01-31T14:30:00Z QotD "Appreciate yourself and honor your soul." ky:rss:1328193000 2012-02-02T14:30:00Z QotD You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. -Sharon Gannon ky:rss:1328365800 2012-02-04T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga Science is not just a scholarly pursuit. It is a moment by moment and thought by thought practical guide for living. -Leonard Perlmutter ky:rss:1328538600 2012-02-06T14:30:00Z QotD Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. -Kareem Abdul Jabbar ky:rss:1328711400 2012-02-08T14:30:00Z QotD "Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is." ky:rss:1328884200 2012-02-10T14:30:00Z QotD Enormous possibilities for health and creativity are held captive by your likes and dislikes. Inspecting your desires and attachments to food and making choices intuitively with discrimination will make your spiritual practice and every other relationship more rewarding. -Leonard Perlmutter ky:rss:1329057000 2012-02-12T14:30:00Z QotD "When you know that all is light, you are enlightened." ky:rss:1329229800 2012-02-14T14:30:00Z QotD When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence." -Unknown ky:rss:1329402600 2012-02-16T14:30:00Z QotD In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice they are not. -Yogi Berra ky:rss:1329575400 2012-02-18T14:30:00Z QotD Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought... -Unknown ky:rss:1329748200 2012-02-20T14:30:00Z QotD When I started doing asana, the yoga postures, I had a very strong feeling of many unnecessary things dropping away - especially tension and inadequacy. -Patricia Sullivan ky:rss:1329921000 2012-02-22T14:30:00Z QotD Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. -Buddha quotes ky:rss:1330093800 2012-02-24T14:30:00Z QotD By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. -Phillip Moffitt ky:rss:1330266600 2012-02-26T14:30:00Z QotD What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant. -Donna Farhi ky:rss:1330439400 2012-02-28T14:30:00Z QotD The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. -Liza Ciano ky:rss:1330612200 2012-03-01T14:30:00Z QotD Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. -Baxter Bell ky:rss:1330785000 2012-03-03T14:30:00Z QotD Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. -The yoga sutras of Patanjali ky:rss:1330957800 2012-03-05T14:30:00Z QotD "Love is where compassion prevails and kindness rules." ky:rss:1331130600 2012-03-07T14:30:00Z QotD When calm your mind and your senses, you become conscious of your always present inner self. -Unknown ky:rss:1331303400 2012-03-09T14:30:00Z QotD "Delight the world with compassion, kindness and grace." ky:rss:1331472600 2012-03-11T13:30:00Z QotD "Your greatest strength is love." ky:rss:1331645400 2012-03-13T13:30:00Z QotD The perennial wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita can teach us how to transform our character, conduct and consciousness to meet the challenges of everyday life. -Leonard Perlmutter ky:rss:1331818200 2012-03-15T13:30:00Z QotD "The soul is projection. Represent it." ky:rss:1331991000 2012-03-17T13:30:00Z QotD Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. -Bob Harper ky:rss:1332163800 2012-03-19T13:30:00Z QotD A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you. -Mariel Hemingway ky:rss:1332336600 2012-03-21T13:30:00Z QotD "An attitude of gratitude brings opportunities." ky:rss:1332509400 2012-03-23T13:30:00Z QotD When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. -B.K.S. Iyengar ky:rss:1332682200 2012-03-25T13:30:00Z QotD I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2." -Ellen DeGeneres ky:rss:1332855000 2012-03-27T13:30:00Z QotD Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. -Sri Chinmoy ky:rss:1333027800 2012-03-29T13:30:00Z QotD "Happiness is every human beings birthright." ky:rss:1333200600 2012-03-31T13:30:00Z QotD REAL Peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss' -Yogi Bhajan ky:rss:1333373400 2012-04-02T13:30:00Z QotD When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. -Hatha Yoga Pradipika ky:rss:1333546200 2012-04-04T13:30:00Z QotD Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. -Unknown ky:rss:1333719000 2012-04-06T13:30:00Z QotD For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. -T. Guillemets ky:rss:1333891800 2012-04-08T13:30:00Z QotD "Be happy so long as breath is in you." ky:rss:1334064600 2012-04-10T13:30:00Z QotD The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what's been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga - the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body - you initiate a process that turns the fight or flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms. -Richard Faulds ky:rss:1334237400 2012-04-12T13:30:00Z QotD Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. -Hatha Yoga Pradipika ky:rss:1334410200 2012-04-14T13:30:00Z QotD This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake. -Bhagavad Gita ky:rss:1334583000 2012-04-16T13:30:00Z QotD Yoga Science teaches us to 'include all and exclude none.' If the outer guru, in the form of a person or experience, reflects the Truth and light of the inner guru, the advice is to be heeded and served in thought, word and deed. If a suggestion from the outer guru is not in harmony with the inner guru as reflected by the purified discrimination of buddhi, the advice is to be honored and lovingly rejected with gratitude---for your teacher has just taught you what not to do. -Leonard Perlmutter ky:rss:1334755800 2012-04-18T13:30:00Z QotD "The universe is the stage on which you dance, guided by your heart." ky:rss:1334928600 2012-04-20T13:30:00Z QotD Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave. -Unknown ky:rss:1335101400 2012-04-22T13:30:00Z QotD Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. -James Allen ky:rss:1335274200 2012-04-24T13:30:00Z QotD "Your greatness is not what you have, it's what you give." ky:rss:1335447000 2012-04-26T13:30:00Z QotD Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. -B.K.S. Iyengar ky:rss:1335619800 2012-04-28T13:30:00Z QotD "There is no love without compassion." ky:rss:1335792600 2012-04-30T13:30:00Z QotD Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. -Swedish Proverb ky:rss:1335965400 2012-05-02T13:30:00Z QotD Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. -David Williams ky:rss:1336138200 2012-05-04T13:30:00Z QotD Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. -Patanjali ky:rss:1336311000 2012-05-06T13:30:00Z QotD "The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment." ky:rss:1336483800 2012-05-08T13:30:00Z QotD Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight or flight mode. -Melanie Haiken ky:rss:1336656600 2012-05-10T13:30:00Z QotD Through practice, I've come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I'm suffering, I find this war with reality to be at the heart of the problem. -Stephen Cope ky:rss:1336829400 2012-05-12T13:30:00Z QotD You may think that only you are a prisoner, but other people are also prisoners. You are in a small prison, but others are in the big prison outside. When will they be released? Think that you are a yogi and that you are pursuing your sadhana in this particular place and at this particular moment. Immediately you will experience great joy. If you change your understanding, you will be free in a minute. -Baba Muktananda ky:rss:1337002200 2012-05-14T13:30:00Z QotD The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind. -Rodney Yee ky:rss:1337175000 2012-05-16T13:30:00Z QotD For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself. -Mary Glover ky:rss:1337347800 2012-05-18T13:30:00Z QotD Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more. -Patricia Walden ky:rss:1337520600 2012-05-20T13:30:00Z QotD Yoga accepts. Yoga gives. -April Vallei