“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself” Leonardo da Vinci Books, articles, and videos on self-mastery abound. Whereas most sources seem to agree that self-mastery is an ability to see, understand, and control the various aspects of one’s personality to consistently have a better life experience, very few offer a clear or deep view into how this ability is built. Most of them provide and elaborate on lists of the practices that one needs to adopt in order to reach and sustain a state of self-mastery. While practices like goal setting, developing willpower to...
You may never have heard of him but Tirumalai Krishnamacharya influenced or, perhaps, even invented your yoga… your practice stems from one source: a five-foot, two-inch Brahmin born more than one hundred years ago in a small South Indian village… He never crossed an ocean, but Krishnamacharya’s yoga has spread through Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Today it’s difficult to find an asana tradition he hasn’t influenced. The Yoga Journal Hatha, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa yoga, Bikram, Kundalini, Yin, Anusara, Jivamukti, Hot, Swing, Power; all of these are the words that go hand in hand with the word “Yoga” in...