Uddiyana Bandha | Effect, Technique, Contraindications
“Uddiyana-bandha is called so by yogis because through its practice, prana (concentrates at one point and) rises up through the sushumna” (Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Shloka…
Month: February 2025
Naouli | Abdominal massage.
According to yoga and the Oriental medicine Ayurveda, the human body has three components (or three inclinations): kapha (mucus), pitta (bile) and vata (gas), which…
Healing qualities of the sauna
Nature has wisely provided that, both in the olden days and nowadays, human life is connected with active behavior. In childhood we play moving games,…
The Om Mantra
Due to the fact that Sanskrit is a very “voluminous” language, where one word has many meanings, translations of some definitions from it are different,…
Anapanasati | Part 2. Stages of progression
Namaste, my friends! So, let’s move from theory to practice. In the previous article the general logic of the evolution of consciousness was described to…
Anapanasati | Part 1. The Evolution of Consciousness
Perhaps one of the best known and most popular internal yoga techniques today is the practice of Anapanasati or Apanasati (both are found in modern…
Ascesis
The term “ Ascesis” comes from the Greek (askêsis) and originally means exercise or training. In ancient times, this term was used to refer to…
Tongue cleaning
Studying Eastern culture, as well as its science of healing – Ayurveda, and the system of techniques of evolution of consciousness – Yoga, we realize…
Cleansing the body according to Marva Oganyan’s method
This article is entirely based on the book “Ecological Medicine”, authored by Marva Vagharshakovna Oganyan, an ecologist, candidate of biological sciences. This book combines the…
Shank Prakshalana or Radical GI lavage.
Some authors compare a human being to a plant that grows in a pot, and the name of this pot is the large intestine. The…