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Yoga promotes weight loss internally. As in the yoga poses not only work on your body on a physical level, but also harness the power of your ‘chitta’ or your ‘inner self’ to help you lose weight fast. To put in understandable terms, yoga helps in weight loss by stimulating your internal organs. Read more here…

Regular meditation reduces inflammation, improves immunity, and strengthens areas of the brain related to empathy and emotional processing, among other benefits. By contrast, studies show that pessimism and negativity fuel inflammation and chronic disease, assaulting DNA, hastening the aging process, and increasing risks of cancer. Read more here…

Many think meditation as merely a way to relax the body and mind. For the saints and mystics, meditation has been the way to find God. Through meditation, we also find answers to questions about what happens to us after death and whether there is life after. Read more here…

Mindfulness will undoubtedly help you get some headspace and make a difference in your life. But there’s another good reason for training the mind. Whether we like it or not, we share the world in which we live with other people and, unless we want to live as a solitary yogi or hermit in the mountains, we’re always going to have to interact with others. Read more here…

Vipassana is a silent 10 day meditation retreat. You can’t talk or look at or touch anyone, and you spend 11 hours a day meditating. The simple act of sitting still is excrutiating when you can’t move a muscle for an hour. You feel pain even in your fingertips because the blood is pooling and you can’t move them. Read more here…

 Teaching children a form of meditation called ‘mindfulness’ – a psychological technique which focuses awareness and attention – can reduce a pupil’s stress levels meaning their mental health improves. Read more here…

Transcendental Meditation has been taught throughout New Zealand since 1970 by the Maharishi Foundation, a non-profit educational organisation.  About 40,000 Kiwis have learned the technique in that time. Read more here…

This workout is about functional movement wherein you perform actions of running, jumping, squatting, throwing, pushing, etc at a high intensity. This workout is literally like a boot camp. Even in the pouring rain, you see people working out thrice a week. Read more here…

Usually in our lives we might become agitated, angry, or upset instantly based on stimuli. It feels instant, anyway. After meditating for some time, you may find that you can slow down that experience and have a chance to respond to things based on reason rather than instinct or habit. Read more here…

A surprisingly powerful aspect of the retreat was the mindful practice of shared meals. The Monastics rang a large meditation bowl and offered a prayer of gratitude before each meal, a practice we often use at home. Astonishingly, we all practiced silence for the first 10-minutes of each meal, a practice foreign to our family. Yet, introducing a practice of silence for the first few minutes of each meal set a tone for a relatively quiet and very enjoyable experience for the entire group.  Read more here…