Breathing for relaxation
Christchurch "refugee" Maggie Murray couldn't breathe properly for eight months following the September 4 earthquake in 2010. "You live in Christchurch walking around almost holding your breath," Maggie says. "In my mind I was OK with these earthquakes, 'I can deal with them'; but my body told another story – sheer panic." She remembers standing in […]
Yoga, deep breathing used to address soldiers’ post-traumatic stress
Rich Low dreamed of Iraq long after he returned home from the war. The memories haunted him when he was awake, too. About six months after his deployment, he was driving at night when a sudden burst of lightning snapped him back to Baghdad and the bomb that exploded near him during a thunderstorm. Low’s […]
Moving from Militancy to Meditation
BANGALORE: He has trod two divergent paths: after years of crime and violence in the Assam hinterland, Rakesh Singh (name changed) chose peace. He travelled with 240 others — all belonging to different militant outfits of Assam — to Bangalore to change everything about himself. “I felt so useless. There was fear, tension and stress […]
Former Laurelmor Site Gets New Meditative Life
BOONE — An international pursuit of inner peace has breathed new life into a large mountaintop retreat here. The Art of Living Foundation, based in Bangalore, India, held what it called a “grand inauguration” Saturday for its International Center for Meditation and Well-Being. More than 2,500 people were in attendance, ranging from local and state […]
Yoga Club Teaches Relaxation for Success
A student club focusing on providing opportunities for yoga and meditation is preparing to host a four-day workshop this week. Arizona State University’s Art of Living club hosts regular meetings and meditation sessions during the school year and tries to host at least one longer Yoga, Empowerment and Service (YES+) course each semester. Outgoing club president […]
Life Is One Bumpy Bicycle Ride
The Art of Living ashram recently had 1,200 youngsters interact with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore In the Ashtavakra Gita, it is mentioned that “If you hate people, in the next life you become like them”. If someone hates a non-living thing or object, does one become a non-living object? Objects are different […]
Meditate India for Developing Sports begins today
The Sports Foundation, Yashwant Vyayamshala and Art of Living have jointly organised an innovative meditation course – Meditate India for Developing Sports – for the players in all sports. This free course will begin from 6 pm today (June 6) at the ground of Yashwant Vyayamshala. Coach Anand Khare informed about the course recently. Khare […]
1,500 kids to be trained in life-skills by AoL
Bangalore, May 30(IANS) About 1,500 children from India, Singapore, Malyasia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will flock to the Art of Living (AoL) Foundation campus here Thursday to participate in ‘Colours of Joy,’ a four-day summer retreat. “Children from various countries will be trained in life-skills to face challenges and live a full life […]
333 Bulgarian Bagpipers revived tradition
With the support of Indian spiritual leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Bulgarian musicians put their Scottish counterparts in the shade with a world record for the largest bagpipe ensemble. The 333 Bulgarian folk musicians gathered in central Sofia late on Wednesday, blowing their kaba-gaidas – bagpipes from the Rhodope mountains in the south of […]
Delicious Food For The Soul
Meditation is the journey from movement to stillness, from sound to silence. The need is present in you to meditate because it is your natural tendency to look for undiminished joy and love that doesn’t distort or turn negative. Is meditation alien to us? That’s not true because you have been in meditation even before […]