YL website May 2021

Om Ganapathaye ! FIFTY TWO YEARS IN THE PROPAGATION OF CLASSICAL RISHICULTURE ASHTANGA YOGA This month’s front cover pays our deep and INTERNATIONAL grateful homage to Yogacharya Dr MV BHOLE, one of the MONTHLY stalwart Yoga researchers and true masters of our modern times. Dr Bhole who served Kaivalyadhama with Vol.52 No. 05, MAY 2021 distinction for many decades had a long and loving association with Swamiji, Ammaji and Dr Ananda. A CONTENTS - 02 dearly valued member of our Yoga family, he visited the - 05 ICYER and Ananda Ashram at Sri Kambaliswamy Madam IS YOGA SECULAR? many times and participated actively in events organized - 08 by Swamiji and Ammaji over the past five decades. Many WHY I WANT TO TEACH YOGA - 10 of our YOGNAT stars will remember him as one of the Jury Members for the 1st Swami Gitananda Best Youth BRAHMAMUHURTA : - 16 Awards competitions in 2000. Over the years he has been a THE BEST TIME FOR MEDITATION - 22 trusted mentor and loving senior who has guided Dr - 24 Ananda in many ways. They worked together on many UNRAVELING SACRED SECRETS - 25 committees in the MDNIY, WHO and Ministry of AYUSH and created a heart-to-heart connection that transcends WHY IS PREVENTION SUCH - 28 lifetimes. He was a stickler for traditional teachings of A DIFFICULT VIEW TO REALISE? - 31 Yoga and his emphasis on \"Anubhava\", the deep experiential aspects of Yoga will be remembered for many TALASANA, THE PALM TREE POSTURE a year to come. We offer our heartfelt Shraddhanjali to him, pray for his Sadgathi and seek his potent blessings CONTEMPLATING THE FOURTH from the Yoga Lokha where he now resides with so many “R” OF GITANANDA YOGA great masters of the Yoga Parampara. THE RAZOR'S EDGE The front inner cover depicts the joy in so many THOUGHTS ABOUT PRANAYAMA IN seekers worldwide who now have Ammaji's Trilogy of THE GITANANDA YOGA TRADITION Yoga History in their loving hands. Why are you still REPORT ON PUDUCHERRY YOGASANA waiting? Get these invaluable treasures at the earliest and SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP 2021 start your journey of intrepid exploration with Ammaji, the Living Siddha of Pondicherry. The back covers depict the exuberance of youth that manifested in the first ever online Yogasana Sport Championship organized by SPYSA which is detailed in the report on pages 31-32. The official publication of Yoga Jivana Satsangha (International); Vishwa Yoga Samaj (Worldwide Yoga Congress); Sri Kambaliswamy Madam (Samadhi Site); SPARC (The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Rishi Culture); ICYER (International Centre for Yoga Education and Research) at Ananda Ashram, Tamil Nadu. Published from Ananda Ashram City Centre at Yoganjali Natyalayam, 25, II Cross, lyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry-605 013, India. Note: All subscribers will be sent e-copies of Yoga Life every month from January 2021 onwards and hence are requested to register their preferred e-mail at [email protected] to ensure uninterrupted receipt of the journal. Editor and Publisher : Ammaji Yogacharini Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani, Editor: (I/C) Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani. Phone: +91-0413-2241561. E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www.rishiculture.in Printers : Sarguru Printographs, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India. Subscription Rate: Indian Rs. 500/year; International 50 Euros/ year.

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