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Chanting Om Mantra One of the most profound meditations is the chanting of the OM mantra.  There are many meditation techniques that use the OM mantra, and in today’s article you will find an excellent variation below. This technique has been wonderfully explained by Richard, and this is his first guest post on Mastery of

Best Yoga Poses of 2011

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Signs and Symptoms of The Kundailni Awakening Experience

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How to Simplify Your Life – Part 1

Simplifying Your Life Tips to Simplify Your Life Life is pretty complicated these days and for most of us, it seems to just get more and more complex and busy with each passing day.   Such complication, not just adds to our stress levels, but it also significantly reduces our opportunities for spiritual and personal growth. 

A Prayer for Peace and Love

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Yoga Helps With Meditation | Video

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6 Great Tips for Teaching Yoga to Children

Children and Yoga Yoga Children In the following 2 articles, Yoga for Kids | Guidelines and Benefits and Comprehensive Guide to Teaching Children’s Yoga, I shared a great deal of information on yoga for children.  Included in those articles are a large collection of kid’s yoga poses and details on how to successfully teach a

Emotional Healing Through Meditation

Releasing Negative Emotions Meditation for Emotional Healing I have shared with you in past articles incredible accounts of emotional healing and transformation that others have achieved using meditation and yoga.  An inspiring example of such a journey can be found in the following article – Curing Severe Anxiety and Depression with Yoga.  In today’s guest

About Incredible Meditation Experiences

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All About Mahasi Meditation Retreats

About Mahasi Meditation Mahasi Meditation Retreats The world of meditation and spiritual growth is simply delightful, and for those interested to learn about meditation there is so much wisdom out there just waiting for you.  Today, guest author Axel Gjertsen, will bring some of that wisdom to you in his article below, which is about

Awaken Kundalini with Yoga Spinal Twists

Awakening the Kundalini Yoga to Awaken Kundalini Kundalini Yoga exercises, poses and sets are designed to dissolve blockages in the gross and subtle body, and promote the flow of energy throughout all its systems and dimensions.  Ultimately, upon reaching certain critical thresholds, large amounts of energy can be released from the base of the spine

Free Soothing Music for Yoga

Music for Yoga Soothing Music A recent collection that was added to the free yoga and meditation resources was the Free Meditation Music Downloads.  In this collection you will find yoga and meditation music from a variety of artists and musicians.  Included in that collection are also mantras, chants, prayers and hymns for you to

Online Yoga Teacher Certification Program Reviews

Yoga Teacher Training Course Reviews Yoga Certification Reviews (Update: Due to the popularity of the Yoga Teacher Certification program, I have created a new website dedicated only to this program.  You can visit that website here Yoga Teacher Training Center).  Of all the online programs offered here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga, the 2

Who is a Good Yoga Yogi?

Meaning of a Good Yogi Foundation of a Good Yoga Practice It is wonderful that yoga is growing in popularity world wide and that now there are so many yogis amongst us.  A yogi is anyone who practices yoga.  So although there are so many different types of yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Flow Yoga, Hatha Yoga,

How to Be a Vegetarian

Being Vegetarian Becoming Vegetarian Earlier this year I wrote a popular article on How to Become a Vegetarian, which were tips form my own journey on converting from non-veg to vegetarianism.  I am now a happy vegetarian, so those guidelines worked well for me, but the article sparked contributions from others from their own journey’s,

What is Mindfulness?

What is Mindfulness Meditation Understanding Mindfulness Mindfulness can simply be defined as the observation of “what is”. The awareness of what is taking place in the outer environment and the inner environment.  Thus, being aware of the trees, the breeze and the sounds of the birds is mindfulness and so is being aware of your

10 Common Meditation Mistakes

Meditation Tips Meditation Help Learn from guest author Axel Gjertsen how to avoid the most common meditation mistakes. You can get more great meditation tips, help and advise from his wonderful website, Axel G. If you would like to be a guest author on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga, please email me at anmol@anmolmehta.com. 10 Common

Best of My Latest Yoga Videos On YouTube

Yoga On YouTube YouTube Yoga Videos My latest series of Yoga Videos have almost all been uploaded on YouTube and I happy that they have been very well received by the YouTube community and blog readers.  The fact that these videos were found to be beneficial has of course inspired me to continue with this

Sleep Training Tips for Enlightenment

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Tips for Guided Meditation and Free Meditation Downloads

Guided Meditation Tips Free Guided Meditations Guided Meditation is a wonderful tool with many applications from simple relaxation and stress relief, to therapy for insomnia and other ailments.  In today’s guest post  Axel Gjertsen shares with us some excellent tips to enhance your guided meditation experience and get the most out of your session. You can

Goenka Meditation Retreats and Information

Goenka Meditation Goenka Meditation Retreats Doing a meditation retreat is an excellent way to deepen your practice.  In today’s guest post we learn all about the Goenka Meditation Tradition and what to expect in a Goenka Meditation Retreat. The guest author is Axel Gjertsen, who had a great deal of insight and experience with Buddhist Meditation

Tips for Yoga Pranayama

Tips for Yoga Breathing Exercises One of the best parts of yoga is yogic breathing exercises or yoga pranayamas and you will find a huge collection of them in the following section, Free Online Yoga Breathing Exercises. There you will find detailed instructions as well as videos on how to do these life transforming techniques.

Thai Buddhism Forest Meditation Tradition

Thai Buddhist Meditation Thai Forest Meditation Tradition It is always great to learn about various meditation traditions from around the world, and today I would like to present the following guest post from Axel on the excellent Thai Buddhist Forest Tradition.  Axel was an actual Buddhist Monk, so it is great to get his views

Yoga and Cancer – A True Cancer Recovery Story

Yoga for Cancer Cancer and Yoga From time to time I come across people who have overcome remarkable challenges in life and thus are a great inspiration to us all.  Ray, a recent graduate from my Yoga Teacher’s Training and Certification Program, is one such shinning example.  He overcame the incredible difficulties posed by brain

Unusual Yoga for Detox

Detox Yoga Pose How to Detox Your Body with Yoga Yoga breathing exercises bestow many benefits, including energy, tranquility, clarity, evolution, etc, but another great benefit of some of the techniques is their ability to detox and cleanse the body.  Of the breathing exercises which do promote detoxificaiton, the one I will provide a video

Eckhart Tolle – A Modern Enlightened Master

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3 Best Third Eye Meditations

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Vipassana Meditation Technique and Benefits

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7 Tips on Becoming a Vegetarian

How to Be Vegetarian Becoming a Vegetarian Eating fruits and vegetables are good for you, there is no denying that and regardless of whether you are vegetarian or non-vegetarian the more fruits and vegetables you can include in your diet the healthier you will be and the longer you will live.  There is also of

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Understanding Zen Practice Understanding Zen Teachings Over the next several weeks I would like to explore deeper and further into Zen and Zen Meditation (Zazen), as I feel the teachings from this school can profoundly impact ones life and greatly help one in their spiritual evolution.  Fortunately Zen teachings have been spread far and wide

Meditation Technique for Pain Management

Pain Relief Meditation Pain Management Technique What was most amazing about the recent research which showed meditation reduced the intensity of pain by 40% and reduced the unpleasantness associated with pain by almost 60%, was that these benefits were attained with just 4 meditation sessions of 20 minutes each!  That’s really incredible.  Normally much more

Free Yoga Music Downloads | Inspiration MP3

Yoga Music Free Yoga MP3 Downloads Looking for some great, soothing, free yoga music?  Well look no further as the following MP3 contributed by my friend Nuno, is a perfect track for doing yoga.  This MP3, called Inspiration, is wonderful for creating a peaceful atmosphere for the practice of Hatha yoga, Flow yoga or any

Yoga Exercises for Neck Pain

Neck Yoga Exercises Yoga Neck Stretches One of the most important regions of the body is the neck and as this region needs to be worked on carefully, gentle and steady yoga techniques are a great way to stretch and exercise this region.  Yoga exercises can help you strengthen the neck muscles and also help

Great Stress Relief Meditation Technique

Meditation for Stress Relief Stress Management Technique Shadb Kriya works by combining the powerful stress reducing ability of yoga breathing exercises and known relaxation benefits of mantra meditation into one great technique.  The end result is that if you are suffering from anxiety, stress, insomnia, excessive worrying, negative thinking, etc, this meditation technique demands an

A Simple Mind the Key to Meditation

Meditation and Simplicity Meditation and Non-Attachment If one looks at all the great meditation masters in the history of man, one sees some very interesting traits that they all had in common.  These traits can give us great insight in their spiritual success and point us in the direction we need to go in order

Yoga for Healing and Opening the Root Chakra

Healing Root Chakra Opening Root Chakra The importance of balancing, healing and cleansing the root chakra should not be overlooked in your yoga practice.  This center is responsible for your all important elimination system and is the key chakra for keeping you grounded and connected with mother earth.  So in this article, I will provide

Powerful Seventh Chakra Kundalini Meditation YouTube Video

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Meditation Helps Cure Cancer Naturally – True Story

Natural Treatment for Cancer Meditation for Treating Cancer The enormous medical and health benefits of yoga and meditation are quickly becoming evident to all.  As is customary in medicine these days, evidence via research and studies is required to substantiate any such claims and plenty of such research is now being published in established journals

Beautiful Prayer to Talk to God

How to Talk to God Prayer for Talking to God For 20+ years now, my mother, Shobha Mehta, has been running a monthly spiritual get-together which is focused on helping children develop into compassionate, wise and positive human beings.  A part of the studies is also for them to learn about the various aspects of

How to Make Spiritual Friends and Inspirational Spiritual Quotes

Inspirational Quotes Spiritual Quotes (Anmol:  Here is a guest post from my friend and great spiritual blogger Nigel Coates.  He is the author of Explore Meditation, which is simply a great site for meditation information, meditation techniques and spiritual wisdom. If you would like to be a guest author on Master of Meditation and Yoga,

Complete Free Yoga DVD Now Online

Yoga DVD Best Beginner Kundalini Yoga DVD Here it is… the final part of the Free Yoga DVD that I was converting to online videos and uploading for you all to enjoy and learn from.  As you will recall this is a DVD of a live Kundalini Yoga class taught by me and was filled

Amazing Meditation Certification Program Reviews and Testimonials

Meditation Certification Program Reviews Best Online Meditation Certification Program The Meditation Teacher Training and Certification Program has now been online for a little over a year and over this time I have received a ton of incredible feedback regarding the course from the graduating students.  This feedback and the reviews have been one of the

Happy Buddha Meditation Video

Laughing Buddha Meditation Buddha Meditation Video One of the meditations that readers have really enjoyed is Kundalini Yoga’s Smiling Buddha Meditation for Happiness and Joy.  In this article I will provide an overview of this technique, but more importantly I will present a video demonstration of how to do this wonderful meditation.  This is one

3 Tips for Inducing Altered States of Consciousness

Inducing Altered States Naturally Higher Consciousness From time to time I share my experiences of altered states of consciousness and encounters with higher consciousness, as I hope these are a source of inspiration and insight for you.  More often than not, such shifts in consciousness occur late at night and my experiences from yesterday, which

Yoga Not Best for Improving Memory?

Improving Memory with Yoga Yoga for Memory Just last week I had published recent research which showed that Meditation was excellent for improving those areas of the brain associated with Memory and Learning.  You can read that article here – How to Improve Your Memory and Mind.  And then, just this week I have come

Yoga Pranayama Breathing for Energy Video | Surya Bedhi Pranayama

Yoga Pranayama Free Video Surya Bedhi Yoga Pranayama Pranayama is a yoga breathing exercise and there are many different pranayamas for a variety of different purposes.  There are pranayamas to help calm the mind and prepare it for meditation, there are paranayamas for increasing lung capacity, there are pranayamas to promote weight loss, to name

How to Improve Your Memory and Mind

Improve Memory with Meditation Meditation Good for Mind and Brain Interested in improving your memory?  Want to have a more robust mind and sharper thinking process.  Forget the mind for a moment, want to be more compassionate and have greater empathy?  Want to have all of the improvements above and more?  If so, the answer

Powerful Gayatri Mantra Meditation Video to Open Third Eye

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Best Kundalini Yoga Meditation Video | Kirtan Kriya

Best Kundalini Yoga Meditation Best Meditation Video Kundalini Yoga has a huge number of excellent meditations, but from all these meditations, 2 are generally considered the best and most powerful.  These 2 are Sodarshan Chakra Kriya, which is detailed in the article Most Powerful Yoga Pranayama and Kirtan Kriya, detailed in the article Kundalini Yoga

Meditation Practice in Spiritual Communities and Ashrams

Meditation Practice in Ashrams Visiting Spiritual Communities (Anmol:  Here is a great idea for a New Year’s Resolution.  Why don’t you plan on taking a trip to an ashram, monastery or other spiritual community this year?  Such trips are a great way to deepen your spiritual practice and see yourself and the world in a

Free Meditation Music MP3 Downloads

Summary:  The Free Meditation Music Downloads is a collection of hand picked meditation pieces from master musicians to relax, heal, inspire and help you grow spiritually, emotionally and mentally.  This page lists all the meditation music available on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga, and is updated as new music MP3s or videos (MP4s) are added

Kundalini Shakti Help and Advise

Kundalini Awakening Help What is Kundalini? One of the most popular articles on this blog is the Kundalini Awakening Symptoms article, where you will find hundreds of amazing stories from others who are experiencing some form of Kundalini Shakti (Energy).  These stories are really mind blowing and many of them give glimpses and deep insights

3 Best Yoga Techniques of 2010

Top Yoga Exercises Best Yoga Movements In 2010 we added a large number of yoga poses and positions to our free online yoga galleries, and as we come to the end of the year, it is time once again to highlight the best yoga exercises for this year.  Of all the yoga techniques we added

Yoga Exercises for Back YouTube Video Finally Online

YouTube Video of Yoga Back Exercises Best Yoga Exercises for Back Pain Thankfully YouTube has extended the length of the videos one can upload to 15 minutes, so I have now been able to upload the famous Yoga Exercises for Lower and Upper Back to my YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/AnmolMehtaCom).  This set is also called the

Hot Yoga Exercises for December Practice

Hot Yoga Techniques Yoga to Raise Inner Body Heat   With most of the US in a deep freeze and cold weather gripping us here in the Northeast as well, I thought we ought to do some hot yoga exercises to get warm in December.  As the regular readers know, every month I present some