by Elena | Feb 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
In India, Mahashivaratri, the spiritual night of Shiva, is traditionally consecrated to Paramashiva (the Supreme Shiva). Shiva’s devotees unanimously consider it as being the most sacred night of the year. The night of Mahashivaratri is the night before the day...
by Elena | Feb 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Pure, eternal, unchanged and shapeless is the pervasive transcendent consciousness of God. He, the Unique, the transcendent, exists through Himself. In His divine transcendent being, there is no darkness, nor light, and there is no other form of energy or matter....
by Elena | Oct 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
The group meditation in a yang-spiral is a formation unique to the yoga schools of the ATMAN International Yoga Federation. This meditation is performed in unison worldwide, with large numbers of participants, at specific moments throughout the year. A yang-spiral...
by Elena | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
The term “centering” means here to focus the attention on your own being and to experience the present moment (meaning not to digress or project the mind in the reminiscences of past events or in the imagining of future events). This “centring” or...
by Elena | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Positive thinking is considered in yoga a success’ sine qua non condition, whether it is about success in yoga practice or in any other benefic action we want to. The reason why yoga puts such a high price on positive thinking is the knowledge of the occult law of...
by Elena | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Prana is the vital, psychic and spiritual force that sustains the actions and the manifestations of both the body and the mind. It is subjugated by these as a horse is harnessed to a carriage and is directed by the mind exactly along the paths where it wants to travel...
by Elena | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
“There is a fundamental need for the human nature, an essential goal of the incarnated life – that of pursuing, consciously or not, the infinite experience starting from a finite ground.” (Sri Aurobindo)Have you ever considered what makes you strongly...
by Elena | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
What does the yogi actually aim for?What does he want by practicing YOGA?A yogi wants more or less what we all want, often without knowing it clearly. He frantically aspires to embrace with his microcosm, of which he is fully aware, the Macrocosm or the Universe that...
by Elena | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
In the spiritual practice, there is an important emphasis on the awareness of the present moment, that is on the “here” and “now”. In his rush for happiness, the inferior mental plane of man is ceaselessly hoping to find its fulfilment by trying to escape from the...
by Elena | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Motto: “In a state of detachment perform what has to be done, no matter what it is, and never wish to assume the fruits of your doings.”Karma Yoga represents one of the four main classic forms of Yoga. Karma Yoga represents a starting point and is an...
