Asanam - Classical Hatha Yoga

Making dreams come true. In August 2023, I came across an ad for a hotel in Dharamshala which looked absolutely stunning. Snow capped mountains, a gorgeous sky and greenery all around. For some reason this ad had a very calming effect on me, so I took a screenshot. I’d look at it quite often when I wouldn’t be feeling too good and I’d imagine myself sitting there, on a particular chair, happy, healthy and full of love. At that time I didn’t know how I’d make the journey because it’s quite a journey from Bangalore.

Fast forward to June 2024, not only was I sitting in that same chair healthy, happy and full of love, I was also surrounded by love from my two angels .yoga and . The snow capped mountains barely had any snow, the sun was beating down on us, I barely spent 5 minutes at this dream spot of mine but it meant the world to me. The best part is, the journey that I thought would be tough was so smooth. Niru & Tutu, maybe someday I’ll have right/better words to be able to express what you did for me 💜

Live in gratitude and miracles will happen.

My gratitude to my Gurus, Devi, family, friends, healer and doctors for helping me make my dreams come true.

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I got so many messages for this story that I had to make it a post! 💜 Glad there are many who agree and many who are working on themselves with therapy + yoga together. We got this!

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” - Henri Matisse

One of my favourite quotes that serves as a reminder that there are many beautiful people, things and events that happen in our lives but we might not be paying attention or noticing. It’s when we start paying attention to the “flowers” that everything changes.

For me, my garden is made up of beautiful flowers in the form of family, friends and time spent with them - the best blooms 🌸

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Keep it simple. Inhale Love, Exhale Gratitude ✨

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Arigatai ✨

Here it is! The Posture Project - 8 Week Posture Alignment Journey.

This program is for anyone who wants to understand and work on their postural issues. It’s no secret now that our posture has a lot to do with our aches and pains, how we breathe, how we move and even how we feel.

If you’ve noticed that you slouch, or you have one shoulder higher than the other or one hip higher than the other etc. Doing only shoulder or hip exercises are not the solution. You need to look at the body as one big unit.

Through the 8 weeks of this program, I will guide you through exercise routines that will address the body as a unit, showing you that most of the time the site of your pain or issue is rarely the source of your pain/issue.

Get all details in the link in my bio! DM me if you need more information!

I don’t teach you anything that I haven’t tried and benefitted from already - whether it’s Posture Alignment Solutions or Hatha Yoga practices. Simple.

Both Posture Alignment Therapy & Isha Hatha Yoga came to at the same time, almost 8 years ago - I was looking for solutions to get relief from Sciatica. How did it develop? I was acing the ‘Art of Sitting’ - something most of us are very good at because we do it for hours a day. Back then, on a working day I would probably be sitting for 5hours in a chair, 2 hours in a car, 1-2 hours on the couch - That’s 8 hours or more of sitting in a day! I was an expert.

One day, I decided I wanted to lead a more active lifestyle and I joined a Zumba class - by the third session I had to drop out because I was in pain. Do we blame Zumba for this? Nope. It’s never the activity, it’s the body you’re taking to the activity. If you take your body from sitting for 8 hours a day to suddenly jumping around, it’s bound to get stressed. What helped? After trying everything, Yoga and Posture Alignment Therapy.

RSIs (Repetitive Stress Injuries) or MSDs (Musculoskeletal Disorders) account for 50% of Workplace Pain in India.

My goal has always been to address this issue for as many people as possible with the knowledge and the experience that I have.

Thank you for organising a Posture Alignment and Meditation session for your team. A focus on wellness at work is the need of the hour.

I LOVE how ‘Asanam’ works so beautifully for Yoga as well as Posture Alignment! I LOVE how ‘Sanam’ fits into ‘Asanam’. I was made for this.

Check your toes before you wreck your toes! Here’s something you probably haven’t noticed (if you have, that’s awesome!). Most socks, no matter how cool they are, no matter how expensive they are - restrict your toes! We’ve all heard about barefoot shoes but if you’re wearing socks inside that don’t let your toes splay, you’re missing out. Toe socks let your toes move the way they want to and can also help you gradually adjust to wearing toe spacers if your toes are super scrunched up. They’re not the best looking but it’s about time we start choosing function over fashion for daily wear. The pictures say it all actually. It’s winter, I’m sure some of you are reading this post with socks on - if you can’t spread your toes apart comfortably, you might want to 1) switch to toe socks 2) get your toes moving and work on foot mobility and strength (can help you with a bunch of stuff for that - DM me).

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A post I never thought I’d put up but there’s a lot to learn from my darling aunt Gopa.

Not everyone knows the struggles she’s been through but everyone remembers her beautiful smile, the love she spread and her vibrancy - what a beautiful imprint to leave in everyone’s minds, hearts and lives. Few can go through things the way she did with a smile on her face and warmth in her heart. A reminder to smile - My Gogu, my inspiration and everyone’s sweetheart.

Our last conversation a few days ago was so sweet - she encouraged me as always to step out of my comfort zone. I hope I can be a beautiful, loving aunt, just like her.

Rest easy in grace and love, Gogu. I miss you and I love you so much 💜🌸

Poochie

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It’s here! You don’t want to miss this one 🤩 Wish you could go somewhere undisturbed by the city's noise and traffic? Into the quiet, only to be called on by the chirping birds or the sounds of the crickets? Where you can catch the first rays of the sun, inhale clean air, where your breath and being can soak into the essence of the earth that we belong to. Someplace you wouldn't have to be any other way but yourself. If being in nature matters more to you than the fancy comforts of the city, this may just be what you are looking for.

A Wellness Retreat at a Lakeside Glamping Site in Bannerghatta! We’ve got Yoga sessions, Meditation, Posture Alignment Therapy, an opportunity to experience a campsite with the conveniences we desire, connecting with like minded people and much more. In collaboration with , we bring to you this one of a kind retreat on the 18th - 19th of August .

Click the link in the bio to know more and register!

Repost from : High on JOY and GRATITUDE!

What began as a simple idea with a noble intention of wanting to contribute towards the through FREE Yoga sessions quickly turned into a serious project which led us to hiring a brand consultant!

Thank you for your commitment & creative ideas to turn our ideas/goals into an effective project within a very short period of time! We truly appreciate you!🙏🏽❤️

Despite various technology and other challenges along with certain time constraints, we have successfully completed our program.

Conducting 100 sessions for 13 Days, and touching 780 lives! Truly beautiful team work from our dedicated Isha Hatha Yoga Teachers!🥰🔥

So thankful to all our participants for giving us the opportunity to share some Hatha Yoga practices towards improving their health and well-being.❤️

Our heartfelt gratitude to the that helped (and were willing to help) us without any hesitation to promote our initiative!❤️

Last but not least, our gratitude to our Guru and our hatha yoga school 🙏🏽

Let’s all continue to share about the condition of our soil with as many people as we can.

Together we have the power to influence our respective governments to create policies towards revitalizing the depleted soil!

Let's make it happen!🙏🏽🌱🌍💪🏼🌸🔥❤️

Let's do Yoga and ! 65 FREE Online Yoga Sessions - WORLDWIDE! Excited to be a part of this! Link in bio.

On this International Day of Yoga, Isha Hatha Yoga Teachers are launching their support for the global through Yoga!

From 21st June to 3rd July, 65 FREE online Yoga sessions will be offered worldwide!

🌱Register now:
yogatosavesoil.com

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Happy Earth Day, Earth Buddies 🌏🌱

Did you get to spend time with nature today? My day started with a bunch of new saplings sprouting from around my Tulsi plant (which btw I am low-key obsessed with 😛) I celebrate every new leaf 😅! I am so grateful for the few lovely plants that I own, let’s me be in touch with the soil first thing in the morning.

Ps: old picture 🤗

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I’m terrible at being photographed - just ask 😅 BUT this candid shot while trying to figure out how to pose, caught my attention. I’m happy and I’m at ease - at least for now. Everyone goes through ups and downs and various other episodes in life - my year started with some BIG ups and even BIGGER downs 😅. Took a while and some dedication to feel on top of things again. I wanted to share a few resources with you that helped me:

1) ‘s meditations
2) ‘s posts + videos
3) Neville Goddard’s discourses
4) Shambhavi Mahamudra from .foundation
5) ‘s videos
6) ‘s posts and show on Netflix
7) ‘s videos

If you’re going through something right now, I hope you know that it’ll pass and you WILL get through it! If you ever want to know more about any of the above, feel free to DM me 💜

Thank you and .hathayoga for introducing me to these amazing resources 🙏🏻😀

Always a good time with the Hatha Fam! 💜😍🤗 Meeting some of them after 3+ years! 😳

Very cool to see the different ways in which people are showing up for ! I’m sure many of you would have come across ‘s (Shivani) doodles by now. She’s come up with some fun prints for the initiative and you can get them on a t-shirt! She’s also donating 50% of the profits from the t-shirt sales towards the movement 🤗 Thank you for sending me this one Shivani! Please follow + DM her to get yours OR go to the website 🙏🏻💜

From Shivani: It is with utmost gratitude to my Guru, Sadhguru, that I launch 3 tees with 'limited edition' prints for . These tees will be available in my shop (www.kornayas.com/artist/shivani-aggarwal) for the duration Sadhguru will be travelling on his motorbike from London to Coimbatore for 100 days.

Each print is an exploration of how our very own body is made from soil, and the deep connection we hold with the earth.

SaveSoil is a global movement launched by Sadhguru to address the soil crisis by bringing together people from around the world to stand up for soil health, and supporting leaders of all nations to institute national policies and actions towards increasing the organic content in cultivable soil.

Sun’s Out, Screws Out! 2 years later, it’s time to close the chapter on the injury - grateful to have gone through the entire journey with a lot of patience, faith, strength and grace. While it made me close some doors, it also opened up some good ones! I was blessed to have a wonderful surgeon, great physiotherapists and coaches, hatha yoga, kriyas, meditations, wonderful friends, a very supportive family - the whole shabang! More than anything, it made me realise my passion for anatomy and the posture-pain connection! I’m looking forward to working on my recovery for the next few months (no Hatha Yoga till September though)! Can’t wait to be stronger and better than before! I’m HATHA!

After quite a rough night at the hospital, I can’t wait to go home in a few hours, shower, sleep and not eat hospital food and enjoy the high from my pain meds 😅

Thank you for flooding my inbox with messages - I love all of you 💜😚

Asanam - Classical Hatha Yoga is now on WhatsApp.

🛑 Clicked this person yesterday and I’m actually seeing this EVERYWHERE. In fact, you might even be doing this right now! It doesn’t matter how much you exercise or do Hatha Yoga, if you’re doing this kind of stuff for hours for the rest of the day.

Just remember this, for every inch that the head is forward in poor posture, an additional 10 pounds of weight is felt on the cervical spine. The avg. head weighs about 10-12 pounds, just an inch or two forward can double or triple the load on the cervical spine. In this picture, approx 60 degree angle, he’s probably got 60 pounds of load on that spine ! 😱 You end up with overworked cervical extensor and lower trapezius muscles and more, plus your breathing is directly impacted as well as your mood.

Change this one habit next week. If you need to look at your phone, bring it up to eye level instead of looking down at it. Your body will thank you.

Posture, posture, posture! It’s a game changer. Your posture can affect almost every system (respiratory, digestive, lymphatic, and of course MUSCULAR) of yours. This is a picture of my client (1 online session) - after a careful analysis of her condition, a few simple tests and 5 simple exercises that took 20 minutes, here are the results! She’s committed to doing the exercises every day and I’m excited to see how we get her moving and feeling better in time. Now, this may not be the case with every client, but you are very likely to see/feel some visible/physics changes. I love my job - following the 🤗🙏🏻💜

LOVE cooking for ‘s EAT RIGHT program! Best part is, I get to eat what I cooked 🤗 has really laid out the fundamentals of a Yogic Diet so beautifully. We spend a lot of time choosing recipes for our cook-alongs making sure to incorporate his teachings and making sure not to repeat recipes too often. Keeps things fresh & fun for each batch 🤗 Have you attended any Yogic Diet sessions? Share your experience in the comments with me and let me know how it’s going for you 🙏🏻💜

Happy Guru Purnima everyone! It’s been exactly 5 years since I first stepped foot in the .foundation ashram in Coimbatore, India. I was all by myself and I have to say it was quite a crazy day! However, I had gone with 0 expectations - none whatsoever from the temples or the meditators or even Sadhguru. For the kind of person I was back then, I don’t think I would have ever returned to the ashram but Grace works in mysterious ways, obviously! Looking back now, it truly feels like I was “taken care of” that day without even realising it. I have a few memories from that day which always transport me to a very beautiful space. “This is a rollercoaster ride” He says, I’m just glad I get to go on it.