Body Centred Living

01/11/2026

This psychologists gets how important clear spaces are for calming a dysregulated nervous system.

Why Decades Of "Just Getting Organized" Failed Me—Until Finnish Researchers Found The Real Reason Clutter Keeps Coming Back After 50

31/10/2026

26/10/2026

Lovely words I treasure.

As a child, I learned to practice yoga with my parents’ guidance. Instructions were relatively limited and I was expected to practice by myself. By the time I reached the age of around 12 years, I was asked to draw my own yoga sequences and practice them (following Krishnamacharya’s sequencing and practice principles). I rarely practiced yoga in a group as a child, and I never attended a yoga training with a particular number of hours or syllabus.

If you learn yoga today, you’ll have a very different experience. You will learn from an instructor in a group a couple of times a week. The classes are segregated into yoga “styles” and new options come up every year.

Here is a point to ponder: If yoga classes don’t give you clarity and confidence to practice on your own, are you truly learning yoga?

Yoga is neither following instructions nor repeating what your teacher does. That is memorization with your body or your mind.

Truly learning yoga requires internalizing knowledge and experience until it becomes integral to your daily self. The insights that arise in this journey are termed prajñā in the Yoga Sutra and they give you clarity and confidence to achieve wellbeing and peace. When you offer knowledge and insight from your inner clarity and confidence, you are then a yoga teacher, not merely an instructor.

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

Join us in Yoga Sutras & Samkhya as we explore the principles that form the foundation of yogic practice—and discover how these timeless teachings can transform the way we live.

For details, click the link in the first comment.

24/10/2026

Definitely worth watching this one!

22/10/2026

Three stages of life help us to shift gears when the times come and grow into new awareness.

The three stages of life in Krishnamacharya’s yoga
1. Sṛṣṭi Krama — Growth
Youth · traditionally up to around 24–25
The focus is on developing strength, flexibility, coordination, discipline and the capacity to learn.
Primary emphasis: Āsana and dynamic movement.
2. Sthiti Krama — Maintenance
Adulthood · traditionally around 25–60
The focus shifts towards maintaining health and vitality while managing family, work and other responsibilities.
Primary emphasis: Prāṇāyāma, supported by Āsana and self-study.
3. Anta Krama — Inward journey
Later life · traditionally around 60 onward
The focus increasingly turns towards inner stillness, spiritual inquiry, devotion and preparation for liberation.
Primary emphasis: Dhyāna (meditation), supported by appropriate breathwork and gentle Āsana.
These are traditional guidelines, not rigid age limits. The emphasis is on adapting yoga to the practitioner’s stage of life, needs and capacity.

18/10/2026

What is interesting about this article is that we have communities of professionals all looking to the microscope to know something we can innately feel directly for ourselves.
Is something really only true and valid because a scientist observed it under controlled conditions.
‘Given a scalpel, they’ll dissect a kiss.’
Give me a river, a tree, the earth and I will love it as myself.

For more than 20 years, Japanese immunologist Dr. Qing Li has studied how spending time in forests affects the human body. His research found that time spent among trees can increase the activity of natural killer (NK) cells, immune cells that help the body fight virus-infected and cancerous cells. Some studies reported increases of around 50% following forest bathing.

One possible explanation is phytoncides, natural compounds released by trees to protect themselves from insects and microorganisms. Research suggests that breathing in these compounds may influence immune activity.

Li also found that forest walks were associated with lower cortisol levels, blood pressure and heart rates compared with walks in urban environments, suggesting that spending time in nature can help reduce stress.

The benefits appear to come from a combination of factors, including the forest's natural chemistry and the calming effects of nature on the nervous system.

Nature is a valuable complement to a healthy lifestyle. Spending time among trees may support several biological processes involved in stress regulation and immune function.

Today, people spend much of their lives indoors, often limiting their exposure to natural environments. Making time to walk among trees may be a simple way to reconnect with nature and support overall well-being.

16/10/2026

Shiva Reveals the Hidden Trap of Family Duty: When Love Becomes an Obligation, It Becomes Bo***ge!

Are you truly loving your family, or are you imprisoned by the belief that you must fulfill every expectation placed upon you?

When Parvati asks Shiva whether she is bound by duty to her family, Shiva reveals a profound spiritual paradox: the moment love becomes an obligation, the mind begins to carry the weight of bo***ge.

True love does not arise from guilt, fear, social expectations, or the desire to be seen as a good person. It flows naturally from awareness, without the psychological burden of being the doer.

This teaching does not ask us to abandon our families or responsibilities. It invites us to discover whether our actions arise from conscious love or unconscious conditioning.

The deepest freedom is not freedom from responsibility, but freedom from the ego that claims ownership of every action.

Source: Original philosophical dialogue inspired by the nondual teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Ta**ra and the Ashtavakra Gita. Not a direct quotation from either scripture.

11/10/2026

The lovely thing is the option to use a pose to rest and allow regulation when needed or use it to activate muscles to improve the functionality of a joint. All is good when awareness and conscious choice are present!