Blog by Swami Dhyānānanda
To say that learning chanting has enriched my life would be an understatement. This is the reason – and invitation – for the upcoming workshops starting this weeks. Around Navaratri time, you can learn about chanting, before deciding if you would like to try it. Then in fall and winter, we will have **community classes**…
The site FindingMeno.com is offered as my humble attempt to show the distillate of what I would have liked to know about perimenopause. Symptoms were so severe that I had very limited energy, all the while I was not even sure yet whether my condition had anything to do with perimenopause at all.
→ zur deutschen Version dieses Eintrags Info & Reservation: Here Workshops in English 19 September 5pm CEST – Perimenopause Management 101 (english)27 September 5pm CEST – Fix Your Sleep Through Traditional Natural Methods9 & 16 October 5pm CEST – Understanding Mantra Chanting and its Health Benefits → more11 October 5pm CEST – Mindfulness And Self…
Those who experience racism, marginalisation and exclusion need to approach nervous system regulation with extra care, as we tend to have different nervous system baselines and face more severe health consequences in case of destabilisation. This is why it is important to learn and practice in an environment that is safe, experienced and informed. In…
August 15, 4pm CEST (Germany time) This workshop explores how we are conditioned to respond to political and societal hostility, and which measures we can take to strengthen ourselves rather than merely stay afloat. We will explore strategies and perspectives that support long-term resilience for ourselves and our communities. These include finding ways to act…
(Including vice versa: why breatwork matters for politics ) At the occasion of the Online-Workshop: Pranayama (‘breathwork’) for the Politically Stressed – July 25 ( donation based) , it may be useful to discuss at first, why pranayama or breathwork are even brought in connection with politics. Is this connection far-fetched? Not at all. I…
— Update 20 July 26: New related article: “Why do politics matter for breathwork?” How traditional pranayama practices can support us under political and societal pressure Online, 11am CEST (Berlin), English Language — This workshop is intended for people invested in social justice and equality. — Prāṇāyāma is one of the traditional disciplines of Yoga. Although…
The Paradox of Self-Help
We are told that self-regulation is a matter of willpower, of assembling the right tools: a morning routine here, a breathing exercise there, a supplement, a protocol. But for most who have tried this, eventually there comes a reckoning: Random
We are taught that hyperresilience is a superpower. What midlife tends to make visible is: What we call resilience is often just the capacity to take a punch. And the body, right now, is asking to stop taking punches.
Resilience, at its root, means to resist well,
Fatigue, mood swings, disrupted sleep, less resilience… the overlap of symptoms (and not only the symptoms) is confusing. A diffuse change, not for the better, in capacity. Most people in their thirties and forties encounter some version of this. It is a diagnostic problem a) because