Benefits of Yoga- Podcast with The Odd Couple Podcast

Emotional Investment- Relationships with people and things

Who are you? Are you an emotionally invested person? Do you let your day be affected by the people you invest in? Is your mood swayed by the ideologies and affiliations that you are invested in? I am a very volatile people when it comes to emotionally investing in people. I either have my guards

The identity of happiness

I often wonder how much harm we do to ourselves by trying to measure happiness according to society’s prescribed standards. We already have social pressure around what age we should complete our education, at what age we should get married, when we should have children, by when we should own a house and so on.

Does your yoga practice have a soul

Over the years I have seen many people rediscovering the ancient system of yoga. It has become a trend across the world today and everyone does yoga. But what I have realised in a very brief span of time, is that people’s practice is very shallow. I’m not talking about their understanding of the system

Pranic Healing-To Heal or Not To Heal

In December, I attended a workshop on Pranic Healing conducted by GMCKS (Grand Master Choa Kok Sui) Pranic Healing centre. It was a two-day learning that left me with a mixed-bag of emotions. I signed up for this workshop because I have always believed that the body is more than a physical manifestation. As a

Death and the aspiring yogi

The last few months haven’t been very kind to humanity in general. Death has reared its ugly face one too many times in the last quarter of 2020. The passing of certain people has affected us more than others for reasons we alone know. But ‘death’ isn’t something that we like focusing on, talking about,

The compassionate yogi

You don’t need to be a yogi to practice compassion. But I see yoga as a very holistic way to tune ourselves towards kindness, empathy, and love.

Food and the yogic connection

Have you ever had days when you just couldn’t get out of bed? That feeling like you weight ten tons and do not want to move at all? I have felt like that for one third of my existence up to now. But it wasn’t until recently that began associating the feeling of lethargy and

The year gone by!

I had a sudden and severe onset of sciatica pain on Wednesday night and it hasn’t subsided. As I tried every method on earth to fight the pain, my annoying phone kept buzzing with messages, all from one particular group- my teachers training batch from SVYASA Yoga university. We were batch 201 and our month

Asana- The seat

When the lock-down in India began on 25th March, good friend and fellow yogi, @zeus_gaurav suggested that we start a yoga challenge. I have been practicing yoga every day and so I didn’t think it was too much extra trouble and agreed. We posted three simple asanas for each day and tagged friends on WhatsApp