During her lifetime Swami Atmananda helped and inspired many people, all over the world. She helped people change for the better; she gave hope and encouragement, and she transformed lives. At first sight there was nothing unusual about her. She was very short, not even...
Swami Atmananda Saraswati affectionately known as Chotte Swamiji of Bihar School of Yoga, Munger, India and Paramahamsa Alakh Bara disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati born in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, August 15th 1939 died in Cuttack, Orissa, India, October 17th, 2003 beloved guide, guru, teacher,...
Early life Swami Atmananda was born in Sindh, which was then part of India. She was the youngest of nine children, five girls and four boys. Her mother died when she was four years old, and she was raised by her eldest sister, Mira, who...
Swami Kriyamurti Swami Atmananda had relatively few close and devoted students, but those whom she focused upon she saw as her life’s work. She gave these students first-hand experiential training. She challenged our minds, our thinking, our actions on every level, so thoroughly that we were...
Swami Kriyamurti Saraswati A Thorough Overhaul Swami Atmananda gave me a thorough overhaul, a massive injection of normality. She brought me to my senses, down to earth; she showed me that it is the little things that matter, that each moment has tremendous significance,...
Swami Kriyamurti Saraswati I was 24 when I turned up at the Limestone Road, Belfast, for a yoga weekend with Swami Atmananda. It was not a beautiful house. It had no garden, just a back yard, and all the windows were sealed. But inside I...
“The soul of man with all the streams of pure living water seems to dwell in the fascia of his body.” Andrew Taylor Still Have you ever noticed the thin, transparent, cling-film-like substance wrapped around joints of meat? This is fascia – the ubiquitous...
The yogic cleansing practices exert a beneficial influence on all dimensions of our health. These simple, natural, ancient practices are a drug-free way of restoring mucus / gastric acid balance in the stomach, encouraging the growth of favourable bacteria in the intestines, and clearing...
Sage Patanjali wrote his great work, the Yoga Sutras, about 2000 ago. It is the first important treatise on yoga, and in it he describes the five kleshas. Klesha is a Sanskrit word meaning psychological affliction, pain or agony. According to Patanjali, the kleshas...
“Change need not be negative deterioration (so–called aging); it may well be a positive evolving construction, a mechanism through which greater maturity – physical and psychological – may be achieved.” – Ida Rolf We all recognize the need for cardiovascular fitness as part of...
“Malfunctioning and strain tend to appear whenever the conscious ‘I’ interferes with instinctively acquired ways of proper use.” The Art of Seeing, Aldous Huxley When you come to yoga, it’s a good idea to remove your glasses and give the eyes an opportunity to...
Can there be a right or wrong way to breathe? Does how we breathe really matter? Maybe so! Professor K.P. Buteyko, a twentieth century medical scientist, discovered that many diseases as diverse as asthma, high blood pressure, arthritis, sinusitis, gastrointestinal problems, hay fever, sleep...
Lessons take place lying on the floor, or sometimes sitting. The teacher talks you through a sequence of movements that involves sensing, moving, thinking and imagining. Each new movement is repeated and explored so that you become familiar with it, and can then begin...
These are some of the conditions and symptoms helped by the Buteyko Method: Asthma, rhinitis, hay fever, breathlessness, coughing, bronchitis, recurrent colds and chest infections, weak immune system Headache, anxiety, panic attacks, fatigue, disturbance of concentration and memory, racing mind, light-headedness, ‘brain fog’, tinnitus...
About Bowen Bowen is a remarkable and powerful tool, encouraging your body to heal itself. All your body needs is the stimulus to help it to communicate with your brain, thereby initiating the self-healing process. Thumbs and fingers are used to make small rolling...