Sriman T. Krishnamacharya (1888 – 1989) “Teach what is inside you. Not as it applies to you, to yourself, but as it applies to the other.” – T. Krishnamacharya Widely acknowledged for being the father of modern postural yoga. However, the credit for the popularity of today’s yoga goes to his foremost students, who were not…
Author: Thomas Humpert
Past and present Yogis, Gurus and Teachers
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh A Vietnamese Buddhist monk, spiritual leader, bestselling author, poet and activist. Born in Vietnam in 1926, he started his monastic education at age 16. Besides fulfilling his ascetic wish, he grew into a prolific writer and a leading activist. In 1966 when he was 39, following his peace proposal in the United States,…
In her father’s light – Interview of Geeta Iyengar
For me a healthy yoga addiction is better than other addictions. The fire of yoga must remain burning without smoke in the spiritual heart throughout the practice, the sadhana. The interest of the practitioner, sadhaka, needs to be affirmative and dynamic. However, this interest should not be a wildfire burning down the forest; the interest in yoga should not…
Learning Iyengar Yoga
Learning Iyengar Yoga While charting out his beginners’ sequences, BKS Iyengar took into consideration: • How to enhance all the systems of the body, i.e., nervous system, muscular system, organics system, etc • A methodical way to awaken the body intelligence • The need to feed the curiosity of the practitioner With that in mind, he laid out a program…
About yoga, fasting and health
‘Yoga and fasting change the way you feel about yourself.’ – Thomas Humpert Common thread The practice of yoga and fasting share common views on health…
Cooked Millet with Seasoned Tomato Gravy
Healthy food There is an easy way of finding out if the food you are eating is healthy or not healthy – trust your guts. Unhealthy food is usually difficult to digest, there is a sense of being full but not nourished, you feel bloated, heavy and needing a nap afterwards – we usually rely on this kind…
Are we all crazy?
[Written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche] From morning to night we do everything with the self-cherishing mind. Inside the house, outside the house, getting dressed, walking around, talking to people, working, eating, seeing things, shopping, going to bed—we do everything with self-cherishing. Even though everything we do is motivated by the wish to obtain temporal happiness and avoid temporal problems,…
Yoga practice and immunity
Covid 19 – immunity and the practice of yoga In 2021 the coronavirus might be less deadly than in 2020. Did you know that our immune system has a form of intelligence, adapting and adjusting to the each-and-every threat that comes our way? As a matter of fact, over the years to come and to beat the virus, our immune…
What is Iyengar Yoga?
“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence” ― BKS Iyengar The origins Iyengar Yoga, as a practice, is best viewed as the culmination of many years of practical research and experimentation (of traditional Hatha Yoga) by BKS Iyengar and his family. Using a scientific and systematic mindset,…