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Savira Gupta

Is yoga being redefined?

Politics...we all know is about creating policies and laws that can both divide, create stability, labels to categorize and discriminate....

Savira Gupta

I do not see color when teaching yoga

A normal routine for me before I start my teaching on the mat is to greet and acknowledge every person that shows up with a smile,...

Savira Gupta

Can Spiritual Wisdom be lost?

While many claim that ‘Spiritual Wisdom’ is lost in the way yoga is taught today, only a handful have actually experienced or understood its

Savira Gupta

Do Labels define Yoga? Are you doing or being yoga?

2020 has highlighted the craziness that we live in. The world today is the accumulation of years of hidden injustices that are boiling...

Savira Gupta

Kosha Y'in Practice and Life

Yoga… is to develop a relationship with the self that exists deep within our core. In Sanskrit this is known as Jiv-atman (jiv means to...

Savira Gupta

Inner Reflection: a mapping of my own thought process

Absorb-Digest and Acknowledge

Savira Gupta

A Response to Jenni Rawlings

"At its core, the definition of yoga is encapsulated in Yoga Sutra 1.2: “Yoga chitta vrtti nirodha”. The English translation of this...

Savira Gupta

Inclusive vs Exclusive in Yoga

I am not going to go into the history of Yoga or how it was brought to the West nor am I going to write about the different styles of...