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Meditation in Motion®: Hatha Yoga & Raja Yoga

by Michael Walton | November 10, 2026 | The Guru's Blog | 0 Comments

Most people think of asana (postures) and pranayama (breath control) when they hear the word “yoga”. These components are a portion of hatha yoga, which also includes yama (restraints) and niyama (observances).

The Personality Is The Reactive Perceiver

by Gurudev | October 13, 2026 | The Guru's Blog | 0 Comments

By Gurudev Shri Amritji The personality is the reactive perceiver, a self-image that builds its own personal reality through the medium of the mind as it moves through time. It divides experience into good and evil, friend and enemy, my side and your side, then lives...

Why We React Before We Can Think

by Amrit Yoga Staff | July 12, 2026 | The Guru's Blog | 0 Comments

By Gurudev Shri Amritji Every reaction arises out of the discrepancy between reality and your ideas about how it should be or how you expect it to be. This process unfolds so quickly that most people experience only the reaction itself, without recognizing that every...

Self-Discovery as the Essential Focus of a Yoga Practice

by Garrett La Valley | Jan 16, 2018 | The Guru's Blog

I AM YOGA: Integrative Amrit Method Yoga: An approach to the practice of yoga that uses self-discovery as its essential focus. The practice of I AM Yoga is shifting from your head to your heart, from your mind to prana, from thinking to feeling, from doing to being,...

Yogi Amrit Desai returns to India

by Garrett La Valley | Mar 31, 2017 | Happening Now at AYI, The Guru's Blog

Headline: American Yogi, Amrit Desai, brings American students to yoga seminar at Malav Kripalu Samadhi Mandir Summary: Yogi Amrit Desai, one of few living closest disciples of Swami Kripalu who has taken his teaching to over 40 countries holding seminar here at Malav...

Return to India: The Legacy of an Ancient Lineage

by Garrett La Valley | Nov 16, 2016 | Happening Now at AYI, The Guru's Blog, Yoga Nidra

Malav Ashram is a Holy Site in the heart of Gujarat where the famous saint, Swami Kripalvandandaji spent over twelve years in Sadhana. Before his Mahasamadhi, he asked his disciples to be buried in a specific field located in Malav due to the sacredness and serenity...

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