For your body

Five Hues of Holi_Indu Arora

Five Hues of Holi

Holi is the ultimate festival of colors from India. Surrounded by family, friends and community, we celebrate with food, colors and flowers the arrival of spring. Among these external layers of rituals and festivities lies the underlying current of Ayurveda, Tantra and Yoga. Every festival in India is a multilayered celebration. Let us see how these five layers unveil their colors on Holi.

Marma Therapy & Your Energy Body

Indu talks about the Ayurvedic healing modality of Marma Therapy for cleansing blocked energy, and how it can help on your healing journey. In conversation with Dr. Avanti Kumar Singh. The Healing Catalyst podcast

Yoga Nidra_Indu Arora

Why prepare for Yoga Nidra

We live in a world that creates waves. Whether it’s driving in traffic, an energizing conversation with a friend, or a pleasant meal, we still need to clear the path for the realization of consciousness.

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Mango Lassi?

After a tasty meal, your server approaches. “Would like anything else…Dessert? Coffee? Mango lassi?” You cast a glance at the table next to you and spy a tall, frosty glass…

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Assess your Ayurvedic Sleep Constitution

Where’s your Zzzz...?

What Is The Sukshma Sharira in Yoga - Discussion with Arundhati B.

How do we maintain positive energy while keeping our mind and body in sync? Listen to this conversation on sukshma sharira to modern-day yoga seekers as well as how to approach the concept, especially for those who are just hearing it for the first time. Enjoy!


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Self-Care Rituals - Discussion with Tracee Stanley_Indu Arora

Self-Care Rituals - Discussion with Tracee Stanley

Tracee and Indu speak to a range of experiences within yoga, including the role of true self-care as an act of responsibility, how comparison has no place in a yoga practice, and the importance of the motivations behind practicing yoga.

Read Indu's latest book: SOMA 100 Self Care Recipes for Self Care in hard copy or eBook.

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You, too, can have the power of Interoception!

How are you feeling? I mean, really? Are you in touch with the sensations that change from moment to moment?

Do you wake up rested?

Do you just pass out when it’s time for sleep? Are you physically exhausted or mentally drained before sleep?

Three Ways to Sleep Smart

Here are 3 easy practices to add to your daily routine to sleep smart and build healthy sleep hygiene!

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Sleep Smarter!

What can we do to remedy the deficit of this critical function that singlehandedly governs immunity, mental focus, emotional balance, discernment, and every single bodily function? Sleep Smarter!

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3 Cool choices

Need some tips to deal with Summer heat?

SOMA - 100 Heritage Recipes for Self-Care - Look Inside

Click here for sweet taste of SOMA, my hot-off-the virtual presses e-book! I welcome you to explore this excerpt, a peek inside my world and inside this lovingly created collection of heritage recipes for your body, mind, and spirit. I hope you enjoy reading it (and living it) as much as I have enjoyed creating it for you.

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Part beverage and part legend

What’s a 4-letter word for “comfortable, warm, contented?”

Cozy? Sure, we’ll accept that…but there’s something bigger, more powerful….

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Sun Salutation, Showers of Prana

Marma points still invoke an air of mystery, or perhaps awe, as we discover just how great a role they play in the body and how we can work with them to bring about our best health. As always, the body is a gift.

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10 Tips to Combat Zoom Fatigue

Zoom is the video communication hero of our times. With that, Zoom fatigue is also becoming more and more familiar as a common experience.

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Regular Maintenance Prevents Breakdowns: Tune Up to Tune In to Yourself

Did you know that the body is mapped with calibration points—mini minds—that inform us if we listen and allow input from the user to change the output?

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Asana and the subtle body

Learn from the comfort of your home about marmas! Give yourself and your students a deeper understanding of the sacred anatomy and geometry of the body.

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Sequencing a class

How do you sequence your whole class?

A drop holds the entire ocean and for me the feeling holds the entire sequence.

Q and A Week 9_Indu Arora

Q and A of the week - No.9

In the age of Mirror home gym and various form of online yoga classes what are your views on practicing Yoga through these media?

Turmeric Smoothie_Indu Arora

Turmeric Smoothie?

Let me be clear: Adding turmeric does not make your food ayurvedic...

Q and A Week 6_Indu Arora

Q and A of the week - No.6

The practice of asanas transforms as we go deeper, from physical to mental to pranic realms. There are layers to the same practice. Here is a question and a deep exploration of Veerasana / Warrior pose

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5 Days of Delight - Deepawali

Deepawali marks the establishment of dharma that allows the awakening of our highest potential. The festival lasts for 5 days where each day has a special symbolic meaning and rituals associated with it.

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Q and A of the week - No.4

The big question on Prana, Tejas and Ojas

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Q and A of the week - No.1

Query: When I practice tree pose I feel shaky? Why do you think this happens? What should I do with this?

Alignment of Asana_Indu Arora

What is alignment in an asana?

Have you ever wondered why yoga teachers are often times so obsessed with alignment? Here are my thoughts...

What is Ayurveda_Indu Arora

What is Ayurveda?

Ayurveda is not to be defined but to be lived. Definitions are for thesaurus, dictionary, books and Wikipedia, but life is all about experiences.

Reviews for Yogi Glow_Indu Arora

9 Reviews for Yogis Glow

"This Ayurvedic herbal mixture for healing the skin brings beauty, color and glowing complexion to the face. It is a wonderful and most authentic product." Vasant Lad


What is Asana_Indu Arora

What is Asana?

Asana means to become that you which you are going to practice. It is not make believe, it is not mimicking, it is not performance, rigidity, adamancy, challenge or an accomplishment. 11 steps to do the abhyasa (practice) of an asana so that one may become that which one is practicing.

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Is Viparita Karani the same as legs-up-the-wall?

This translation of everything into simple english does not work as it is supposed to work.There is a huge difference between inverting the flow and reversing (Viparita) the flow. Inverse means changing the order and reverse means to go back to the origin or in opposite direction. That is exactly the difference between a simple inversion like legs up the wall and "Viparita karani."

Yogis Glow_Indu Arora

BEAUTY

Beauty means many things to many people. So what is beauty from vedic and textual point of view? By seeing the beauty in everything, we all contribute to a more beautiful, peaceful and bright world.

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Turmeric It Is!

"Just go and apply haldi/ turmeric!" - my mother often said when there was a cut, injury, pain or ache.

We all have heard about turmeric and its healing properties. What was known to Indian cuisine as a culinary and medicinal secret is now known to the world.

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Welcome the Fall in 12 Ayurvedic and Yogic Ways

How to prepare your body and mind to the changing season?

The wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga for the Fall season has a lot to offer.

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Magic dust for the skin - Yogis Glow

I am so proud to introduce YOGIS GLOW to you! It is food for the skin, it is like a magic dust, an ayurvedic mixture of herbs, flowers and spices and has been inspired by my grandmother's recipe, enhanced by teachings from my Gurus and revised by my personal experiences and understanding.

Leftover from restaurants

How wise it is to get leftover food packed from restaurants?

Dinacharya 101_Indu Arora

Dinacharya 101

Health is surely not a goal that we might attain one day. It is moment-to-moment transformation in a three-step process: