Yoga Being whole

Yoga
Being whole

October 11 2013

This post is a reminder to myself: Do Yoga. It’s good for you!
I was introduced to Ashtanga once and since then I know that I should follow this path.

The first video serves as a great teaser for this style of yoga.

We don’t use our body to get into the pose
We use the pose to get into our body
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Michel Henricot
The Chrysalis of the Human Being

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Alphachanneling
Utopian Erotic

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Richard Feynman
The pleasure of finding things out

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Biosphere 2
& Spaceship Earth

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Part III

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Caio Reisewitz
The Changing Brazilian Landscape

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Hans Bellmer
Degenerate Art

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Taylor Camp
Paradise Lost

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Icaros
One who set forth
to learn what being alive was

This film is about people who set forth to fully experience life. To shed the false shell and to return home.

Thomas Shearer
Galaxies frozen in time

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Seeds
Time Capsules of Life

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Jonathan McCabe
Generative Flow

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Franciszek Starowieyski
The Opulence of Demise

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David Attenborough
The Tribal Eye

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Valdir Cruz
Faces of the Rainforest

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Kohei Yoshiyuki
The Park

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Stanislav Grof
Holotropic Breathwork

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The Cloud Appreciation Society

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