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Our Institute has long been entirely on-line in terms of its courses and consultation options, as well as its resources and articles. The coronavirus pandemic does not affect our functioning in any way. In fact we provide a good on-line alternative for those wishing to study from home, as traveling is no longer a viable option for most of us. We send our best wishes for you and all humanity in this time of global crises. Om Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!
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Prana Beyond the Breath and Life Beyond Death
May 26,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsPrana is not the breath, though it is closely related to it at a physical level. Many people define prana as the breath or call it the breath. This can help us approach the vast subject of prana but can be misleading if we take it literally. In...
Vedic Counseling and Ayurvedic Psychology
May 17,2020 / Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsThis article is written for students of Yoga and Ayurveda Psychology and students of Vedanta and Vedic Counseling, who wish to know more how these fields are connected. Vedic Counseling Several Vedic fields of education, counseling and...
Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
May 14,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsThe Covid-19 Pandemic is causing a massive loss of life, particularly for the elderly, and millions worldwide have tested positive for the virus. Yet the psychological suffering the pandemic causes may be as difficult as the physical...
Vedic Light and Tantric Energy Yogas
May 13,2020 / Articles on Tantra Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsBy Acharya David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Tantra and Veda: One Tradition A number of writers and teachers, particularly in Western academia, have tried to divide the two great traditions of India of Veda and Tantra as...
The Purusha, the Real Person within You
May 11,2020 / Articles on Yoga New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThe Complexity of our Physical Existence If you carefully examine your life, you can easily observe that our human existence is complicated, many sided, with numerous subtle connections both within us and around us, extending widely into...
Shakti Sadhana and Divine Grace
May 08,2020 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi / 0 CommentsShakti Sadhana All of our lives should be a Shakti Sadhana, a cultivation of the Yoga Shakti on all levels outwardly and inwardly. For this we are always supported by Mother Nature who is the very embodiment of Shakti for...
Susceptibility to COVID-19: an Ayurvedic Perspective
May 04,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsCOVID-19 is a selective pandemic. It does not target all segments of the population like many pandemics. It is very dangerous for certain groups, but not for all, as the majority will only have mild symptoms. It mainly effects those with weak...
Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda: The Meaning of Chikitsa
May 01,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsYOGA THERAPY OR YOGA CHIKITSA The Sanskrit term for therapy throughout its medical literature is Chikitsa, which literally refers to the application of consciousness (chit) or caring. Yoga Therapy is called Yoga Chikitsa. Yet...
Pranayama and Immunity
April 27,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsPrana upholds the immunity of body and mind. This upholding prana is not simply the breath, with which it is related, but the deeper vital energy that sustains our entire embodied existence. Prana also forms the subtle or energy body of...
Yoga and Ayurveda's View of Depression and How to Overcome It
April 21,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsDepression is becoming epidemic, particularly in the affluent Western world. It is afflicting young and old, rich and poor, educated and uneducated alike. To counter it special anti-depressant drugs are being prescribed in ever increasing amounts,...
The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi: An Integral View
April 17,2020 / On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsBhagavan Ramana Maharshi, perhaps modern India's greatest sage, recommended Atma-Vichara or Self-inquiry as the best and most direct approach for Self-realization. However, a careful examination of his teachings reveals that he recommended...
Wellbeing and the Wellness of Being
April 13,2020 / On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsWe are all striving for wellbeing within and around us. It may be wellbeing of body or mind, wellbeing of our family, friends or society. The search for wellness is the foundation of all healing and the treatment of all diseases. The...
Anxiety and its Treatment through Yoga and Ayurveda
April 09,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsAnxiety is almost epidemic in the modern higher tech world, though it is a long standing human problem. It is increasing globally during this coronavirus pandemic. Anxiety is largely Vata Dosha disorder in Ayurvedic medicine, a problem that...
Discovering the Secret Power of Hanuman
April 07,2020 / Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsHanuman endows us with the Atma-Shakti or self-power to realize our highest potential and accomplish what is magical. Hanuman is the great hero of the Ramayana, the wonderful story's most fascinating character. Though having the form of a...
The Shiva-Kali Axis in Vedic Astrology and its Alignment in 2020
April 02,2020 / Articles on Vedic Astrology / 0 CommentsThe Shiva-Kali Axis in Vedic astrology is the important axis between the Galactic Center in early Sagittarius (Kali) and the point opposite to it or the Anti-Galactic Center in early Gemini (Shiva). It marks the two sides of the zodiac from looking...
The Ayurvedic View of the Human Body - Audio by Dr. David Frawley
April 01,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda Audios / 0 CommentsAyurveda views the human body in terms of consciousness, intelligence, information and energy as held in a physical field of organs, tissues and channels. As such the body is not simply physical but is merely a physical point focus for forces...
