Talks with master

Interview with Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten: "The unique way"

Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten, who are based on the island of Lesvos in Greece, have been teaching together since they met more than 25 years ago. Their teaching style is playful, emotionally freeing and deeply personal.

Don’t expect to be silently suffering through a...

Interview with Rod Stryker: "It Is Easier When You Have No Teacher. It Is More Difficult to Have One"

Rod Strykeris a founder of ParaYoga, is widely considered to be one of the preeminent yoga and meditation teachers in the United States. In this interview Rod is telling about his understanding of yoga, about trends in development of modern yoga and their roots, he is also answering many more interesting questions.

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Interview with Gert van Leeuwen: "Critical Alignment Yoga"

Gert van Leeuwen (Amsterdam) over the last 35 years has been working on a new style of yoga, which he calls "Critical Alignment Yoga". Two years ago, he published in the Netherlands four hundred page book on his method.

When 16-year old Gert van Leeuwen worked as the receptionist for a nursing...

Mark Dyczkowski: "My Learning of Kashmiri Shaivism"

Dr. Mark Dyczkowski is one of the world’s foremost scholars on Tantra and Kashmiri Trika Shaivism and has lived and worked in India for close to forty years. Both a scholar and a practitioner, he was initiated by the great Indian teacher Swami...

Interview with Leslie Kaminoff: "The practice must be adapted to the individual"

Leslie Kaminoff is a yoga educator inspired by the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar, one of the world's foremost authorities on the therapeutic uses of yoga. Leslie is the founder of The Breathing Project, a New York City educational nonprofit organization dedicated to the teaching of individualized breath-centered yoga.

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Interview with Tao Porchon-Lynch

Tao Porchon-Lynch, Master Yoga teacher, 95 years young, has over 70 years of yoga practice and more than 45 years of teaching yoga to students in India, France and the U.S.

Her life in India encompasses many historic events. There aren’t many people still alive who witnessed first-hand some of the events Tao has....

Interview with Dr. Robert E. Svoboda

Dr. Robert E. Svoboda is an American author and ayurvedic doctor who gives lectures and courses around the world, related to the subjects of ayurveda, jyotish, tantra and Eastern religion. He is author of eleven books, including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution (1989), and the Aghora trilogy (1986, 1993, 1997) about his mentor, Vimalananda, and the Aghori sect.

Robert...

"At The Right Hand Of God" by Shailendra Sharma

New book by an Indian yogi from Govardhan

Author of yogic comments on Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali’s Yoga Darshans, Shiva Sutras, and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Shri Shailendra Sharma (disciple of Shri Satyacharan Lahiri, grandson of Lahiri Mahasai) is the fifth guru in the lineage of...

Rampuri Baba "Westerners are constructing their own yoga and tantra"

Rampuri Baba, born William A. Gans (July 14, 1950), an American expatriate, has lived in India since 1970, when be became a Naga Sadhu (a Hindu monk of Naga tradition). He became the first foreigner initiated into ancient order of Naga Sannyasis. He is the author of the 2010 book Autobiography of a Sadhu: A Journey into Mystic India, (originally published in 2005 as Baba: Autobiography...