“When you lose touch with your inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. Stillness is your essential nature.
What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.” — Excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s Stillness Speaks
Meditation
What is meditation? (link to video of Eckhart Tolle)
- See the Brazos Healing Center’s upcoming free workshops for opportunities to learn and practice meditation techniques.
- Local community meditation group, Brazos Buddhist Association, meets every week in College Station. All faiths/beliefs are welcome.
- Art of Living – TAMU: offers courses and events in mindfulness
- Other resources exist below on the Yoga Journal web site and books/DVDs listed below.
- See post as well for an example meditation.
Check out Brazos Healing Center events coming up!
Brazos Valley Yoga Connection: local group of community yoga teachers and calendar of yoga classes offered around the area
Yoga Journal: a magazine devoted to yoga with great (and free!) online resources such as an index of yoga poses, numerous articles, free newsletters, and podcasts. Click here for a good beginners’ introduction to yoga.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: foundation of yoga. Great translations and the introduction page is a good start on this site.
Recipes
Yogi Tea Recipe – Click here
Recommended Yoga DVDs
- Seane Corn, Vinyasa Flow
- Shiva Rea, Shakti Yoga – note: this is an intermediate/advanced level practice
- Gaiam DVDs – various ones with different levels/focuses (i.e. Yoga for Abs, etc.)
Recommended Yoga Books
- General Yoga: Shambhala Guide to Yoga; Bhaghavid Gita; Meditations from the Mat (Gates)
- Yoga The Iyengar Way (Iyengar)
- Light on Yoga (Iyengar)
- Yoga for Wellness (Kraftsow)
- Yoga for Transformation (Kraftsow)
- Mastering the Secrets of Yoga Flow (Swenson)
- Kundalini Yoga The Flow of Eternal Power (Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa)
- Eight Human Talents (Gurmukh)
- Kundalini Yoga (Shakta Kaur Khalsa)
- Sadhana Guidelines (Gurucharan Singh Khalsa)
