An interpretation of the chant (Sanskrit spelling shown below) karmaņyevādhikāraste – Your sphere of influence is with your actions alone mā phaleşu kadācana – But never in the fruits or results of your actions mā karmaphalaheturbhūr – Don’t let your motive to act be because of the fruits or results of your actions mā te sango ’stvakarmaņi –But at the same time don’t …
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Moving Actively into Postures Can give Strength and Flexibility Without Tension or Stretching
by Simon Borg-Olivier Active movements are the more traditional way to come into hatha yoga postures. These are movements that are done by the muscles that would be used to enter a posture without the assistance of external forces such as gravity, momentum, or one limb pulling on another limb. These movements can give you most of the purported benefits …
The Benefits of Yoga for Kids
by Simon Borg-Olivier & Bianca Machliss Yoga has a recorded history of at least five thousand years (Feuerstein, 1996). Hatha yoga involves the physical aspect of this ancient Indian science. Hatha yoga uses strengthening and stretching exercises, aerobic conditioning, and relaxation exercises, to help improve posture and breathing. The word ‘yoga’ means union, joining, or to link together as one …
Are you doing your yoga for now, or are you doing exercise, so you can do yoga later?
By Simon Borg-Olivier MSc BAppSc (Physiotherapy) Most people in the world of modern yoga are not actually doing yoga while they are engaged in the activities of posture, movement, and breathing, but instead, they are doing exercise or having a workout, which is often painful, or at least uncomfortable, and after which they are often tired, and hungry. This is …
What to do Before, During and After a Yoga Practice
This blog is based on a video interview I did with my dear friend and film maker Erick Joseph at the Bali Spirit Festival last year. You can also read the article i wrote about it recently. “There are certain things we should all be doing before, during and after our yoga practice on a physical (anatomical), energetic (physiological) and emotional level. …
Nerve Tensioning: Lengthening and Untangling Nerves to Improve Strength, Flexibility and Wellbeing
Are your muscles not working as well as they used to? Are you getting unexplained pain or altered sensations in your arms or your legs? You may be able to get some improvement in your condition by mobilising your nerve tissue, which is also known as nerve tensioning, or neural mobilisation and often –although incorrectly – as ‘nerve stretching’. Nerve …
Traditional Yoga For the Modern Body
In these two short videos physiotherapist and Yoga Synergy Director Simon Borg-Olivier explains how to practice traditional yoga if you have a body that does not have natural features inherent in the bodies of traditional cultures, such as the ability to squat and sit cross legged on the floor. Differences between the traditional body and the modern Western body are …