Tag: longevity

Boost your health with pranayama.

It’s Healthy Lung Month in the USA, and it seems like a great time to discuss yoga breath work, also known as pranayama, and the benefit it brings to our lung health. Our breath has been present from the moment we are born, and leaves us when we leave life. It is linked to every […]

Practising candle gazing, or trataka.

Trataka is the practice of candle gazing, where you spend time with your eyes focused solely on the flame of a candle. For me, this is a practice of concentration, and therefore part of dharana practice. Yogapedia explains: Dharana is the sixth of the Eight Limbs of Yoga as described by Patanjali in the Yoga […]