Laughter Yoga Rocks

Health Benefits of Laughter Yoga

My 2 little boys, and all the other children in the family have a favorite uncle who is a yoga master, but not a yoga master in the traditional sense of the word.  You see this uncle is a master of Laughter Yoga, so you can just imagine the fun the kids have when he comes visiting.  Forget the kids, we all dearly Laughter Uncle, as his presence means it’s time to loosen up, open up, lighten up and see just how loud and free you can laugh.  Oh yes, by the way, he does have a name besides Laughter Uncle and that is Arya Pathria.

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Yoga Mudras Picture Gallery

Understanding Yoga Mudras

An important aspect of yoga is the subtle, but key practice of hand, body and eye postures, to invoke certain flows of energy and create certain states of consciousness, called yoga mudras.  In last month’s newsletter I introduced you all to yoga mudras and provided 5 important mudras to start with.  In the newsletter I also mentioned I would be creating a comprehensive guide to yoga mudras, and this is the first part of that guide.

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Best YouTube Meditation Channel

Yoga Meditation YouTube Videos

As you may have noticed, the yoga and meditation videos that accompany the articles here on Master of Meditation and Yoga are hosted from my YouTube Yoga channel and embedded here.  As I explained in the article, My Top YouTube Yoga Videos, I initially starting using YouTube as simply a repository for my videos and was not looking to build my YouTube channel there specifically.  Little did I know then that the number 2 search engine after Lord Google, was not Yahoo or Bing, but was actually YouTube.  So over time the channel has grown quietly and with the recent Google updates, I noticed it has leapfrogged this site and blog as well in terms of Authority and Popularity!

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Zen Practices

Peace of Mind in Zen

Zen practice speaks a great deal on composure and having a calm, peaceful mind, but understanding deeply what they mean by this is not always easy.  Below I have shared with you excerpts from Zen Master Suzuki on what Zen is indicating when it is speaks of a calm, vast, quiet mind.  The teachings below will also be very valuable in helping you establish a sound meditation practice and spiritual way of life.

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Your Yoga Pictures Wanted

The most important aspect of yoga and meditation is TO DO IT .  Unless you get down to real practice, you are not going to enjoy the great many benefits that these profound sciences bestow.  One of the popular articles on the website is the Golden Rule to Stop Excuses and Start Meditation, which says don’t try to be perfect, instead if you can do something even at 70% just go ahead and start it.  Once you begin, things will start to take care of themselves.

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Holistic Health and Self Healing

How to Practice Self Healing

Self healing has become much more prevalent with the mountains of medical and alternative healing information now available on the good old world wide web.  If you have some symptoms, call Dr. Google and give it a spin.  Millions of websites with thousands of cures and treatments will pop up, to help you self diagnose and self treat your issue.

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How to Get High Naturally

Best Way to Get High Without Drugs

Drugs, especially psychedelics and hallucinogens, are again getting a great deal of attention from the scientific medical community for producing "High States" (enlightenment experiences) similar to those experienced during meditation.  The experience of these states is then profoundly transforming the lives of the subjects and participants.  I have seen again and again, the experience of higher states of consciousness achieved spontaneously or during meditation, be the catalyst for changing the lives of those lucky enough to have them.  The primary reason behind this change is that such experiences make them aware of the True Non-dual Singular Nature of Reality and thus, propel them on the path of spirituality and love.

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New Yoga and Meditation Store

AnmolMehta.com Yoga and Meditation Products

As many of you know I offer a comprehensive Online Meditation Teacher’s Training and Certification Program here on AnmolMehta.com, which I am very happy to report is helping transform lives and create wonderful meditation teachers.  The feedback I have received has been amazing and many of the students who graduated are already finding success as meditation teachers and instructors (read their testimonials here: Meditation Teacher’s Training Program Details).  As I mentioned when I launched this program, it is designed to help you not just master meditation, but also designed to help you earn a good life as a meditation teacher.  I am really pleased at the success of this aspect of the program as well.

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Simple Yogic Breath

Basic Yoga Breathing Technique

Free Online Video of Simple Yogic Breathing

(Coming Soon)

I was just updating the ongoing Free Online Yoga Breathing Exercises E-book, with the recent Seetkari Yoga Pranayama article, when I realized I had not yet published the most fundamental and basic Yoga Breathing Technique – The Yogic Breath or Simple Yoga Breathing .  The online pranayama (yoga breathing exercises) e-book has some excellent techniques of course, such as Kapalbhati Yoga Pranayama, Kundalini Yoga Breath of Fire, Alternate Nostril Yoga Breathing, but it does not have the Simple Yogic Breath, which is a must.  So today I am going to detail this breathing technique, which is in and of itself capable of transforming your entire physical, mental and emotional state.

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Yoga Exercise for Toning Shoulder

Simple Shoulder Workout

If you have attended a Kundalini Yoga class, you know there is going to be that phase when it’s time to do shoulder exercises and it’s going to test your pain threshold, at least just a little bit .  Being quite an obsessive personality myself, I remember spending a lot of time out of class simply testing my willpower by seeing how long I could hold my arms up, etc.  This was to better prepare me for completing the shoulder exercises during class.  There are a lot of excellent sets to work on your shoulders in Kundalini Yoga, but today I am going to give you just one simple shoulder exercise which will prepare you nicely for these sets that I plan to upload in the near future.

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