by Jeff Martens In ancient India, an elephant driver would tie up his elephant with a straw rope. Though the powerful elephant could snap the rope with a single toss of its head, the elephant remained in place, believing itself to be bound. Our habits (in Sanskrit: sanskara or samskara) are much like this straw rope. We place all kinds of …
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“Religion and Yoga”
Making Peace with Religion in a Yoga Life By Julie Dreyer Thanks to Jeff Martens for suggesting that I read Nine Faces of Christ by Eugene Whitworth. I wanted to share what this book meant to me, starting with where I was coming from before reading it. I was raised strictly Christian in a town called Zion (fitting, I know). …
No-Thing to be Thankful For
by Jeff Martens The water was loud enough to drown out shouted conversation. Rain poured from the night sky and flooded through the ceiling of the large studio in a waterfall larger than any monsoon had a right to deposit. A half hour later we found that, in addition to the torrential storm, one of the main fire sprinkler lines …
New Yoga Products You Won’t Find Anywhere Else! (Hopefully)
by Jeff Martens We at Inner Vision Yoga are always striving to remain on the cutting edge for offering you the very best in yoga products and practice aids. We think you will be as pleasantly surprised with these NEW products as we are… NEW! Yo’diaper Yoga Diapers Has this ever happened to you? You are flowing through your perfect …
me vs. Me
Why I entered the Arizona Asana Championship by Jeff Martens If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you. – Jesus, Thomas Gospel *** The amplified voice booms like thunder beyond the relative safety of the stage …
“How I Spent my Winter Vacation (Ownership. Peace, and the One Who Is Beyond Greed)”
by Jeff Martens It is a rare thing in my life, not to see another human being for five days. My wife at the time, Michele, was out of the country for almost four weeks and I found myself visiting a friend’s cabin in Northern Arizona with my dog Ginger. The long drive from the city and I have arrived, …
“Abhinivesha” – What Am I Afraid of?
by Michelle Hegmon I am high on the East Ridge of Mt. Logan in Canada. I have crampons on my feet, ice tools in my hands, and a pack on my back. I am having fun. We are at the narrow Knife Edge Ridge, which drops thousands of feet on both sides to the glacier below. Everything is snow and …
Ask The Yogi – Kundalini
Ask The Yogi Kundalini and experiencing ‘the rise of spiritual energy’ Q: What does it mean to be eaten up by the flame in kundalini? I have had shocks of energy at the base of my spine that lead up to and out of my head giving me head aches. What does awaking through all this weird energy mean? Is this …
“Ultimate Yoga Practice”
Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga by Jeff Martens Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, the definitive classical yoga teaching written sometime around 300-250 BC, outlines eight limbs of yoga as a way of life. According to patanjali and many other Masters, we suffer because we have forgotten our Spiritual identity. Yet Yoga is not a religion; it embraces all religions or Spiritual beliefs, …
“The Student, the Master and the Rock”
Practice and Letting Go abhyasa vairagyabhyam tannirodaha Yoga Sutra 1.12 “Effort and surrender cease the fluctuations of consciousness.” With practice and letting go we achieve the state of yoga… Once there was a seeker who went from master to master searching for the key to enlightenment. Every master he went to appeared to give him something different. The first master …