Savira Gupta
Why modern yoga is without purpose and direction.
When I first started taking yoga classes at studios in CA, it was approached and taught as just a physical practice. The emphasis was on...
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Savira Gupta
- May 5, 2022
- 4 min
Dharma is a misunderstood concept within Yogaland.
The term dharma has loosely been translated to passion and more often is and continues to be taken out of context. There have been...
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Savira Gupta
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
Why Yoga Land Is A Mess!!
Two to three years on and not much has really changed within Yoga Land! On the contrary, it has become even more entrenched in capitalism...
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Savira Gupta
- May 12, 2021
- 4 min
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....
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Savira Gupta
- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
YAMAS, NIYAMAS and YOGA TEACHERS
How much time do you contribute to teaching the Yamas / Niyamas and do
you as a yoga teacher, follow these codes of ethics?
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Savira Gupta
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
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
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Savira Gupta
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
When (or) was Yoga ever colonised?
The South Asia region consists of Afghanistan in the north-west till Bangladesh in the east, and from Nepal in the north to Sri Lanka in...
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Savira Gupta
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
VERSE 4.18
To further grasp the meaning of the verse it was important to understand that the word Karma is further divided into 3 types.
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Savira Gupta
- Feb 22, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Savira Gupta
- Aug 2, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Savira Gupta
- Jul 30, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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