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Yoga Psychology | Sattva Rajas Tamas – Trigunas II
Sattva Rajas Tamas – Trigunas II In Part I, we had touched upon the evolutes arising out of the fusion of Prakrti / Prime Nature and...

Roshan Palat
Sep 27, 20216 min read


Yoga Psychology | The Root Identity - MŪLĀDHĀRA CHAKRA
As per Freudian psychoanalytic theory, there is in the normal human mind the awareness of the Ego, the Id and the Super-Ego and these...

Roshan Palat
Sep 27, 20213 min read


Yoga Psychology | Triguas (3 Gunas) - Sattva Rajas Tamas
Anyone doing some basic reading of Yoga theory will often come across the terms Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Together they are called the...

Roshan Palat
Sep 21, 20215 min read


Yoga Psychology | Learning Through Epiphany II
Manana -The 2nd Level The next step in the Four Step process of Yogic learning, following the first Smarana, is Manana. The word Manana...

Roshan Palat
Sep 21, 20214 min read


Yoga Psychology | Learning Through Epiphany I
How do we Know something? How do we know something? And how do we know something for sure? These two things are definitely different. For...

Roshan Palat
Sep 21, 20214 min read


Yoga Psychology | 5 Elements and the Mind
Energy Is Mass. Energy is Thought. Energy is Breath. Energy is All. Universal Energy exists in 120 element types arising as combinations...

Roshan Palat
Sep 21, 20213 min read


Yoga Psychology | The Pancha-Koshas / The 5 Selves
The Five Sheaths (Koshas) Kosha, the Samskrit word signifies a cover, but as per Sandhya Bhasha, or the Twilight Language of Yoga, the...

Roshan Palat
Sep 21, 20215 min read


The World of 7 Chakras - An Introduction
The Primary Universal Elements are 5 and out of their 120 various types of permutations and combinations comes the Universe of objects...

Roshan Palat
Sep 21, 20213 min read


Yoga Psychology | The Heart of Faith
Doubt, sans questioning is a self-destroying mechanism and eats away at the emotional Heart like a cancer. Cardiologists around the world...

Roshan Palat
Sep 21, 20213 min read


The 4 Types of Courage – Four Viryas
When we see speak about courage in Yoga, it is of four kinds– DharamVir, KaramVir, YudhaVir and DanaVir, namely the Courage of...

Roshan Palat
Sep 21, 20215 min read


The Yoga Revolution-Taking it to the Next Level
There is a lot of talk in Yoga circles today, of the watering down of Yoga by Yoga teaching institutes in alliance with an American...

Roshan Palat
Sep 19, 20214 min read


Pranayama - Blissful Yogic Breathing Techniques
Introduction - What is Pranayama? Prana is Vital or Sentient Energy and Yama is Control or Expansion. Hence, Pranayama is the controlled...

Roshan Palat
Sep 1, 20215 min read


Why NOT to Become a Yoga Teacher
It takes a medical student 5 years to acquire a minimal qualification, namely the M.B.B.S., upon which he/ she is qualified to be a...

Roshan Palat
Jul 1, 20214 min read


Introduction to Yoga Psychology
The Self-identification is the primary attribution based on which there is individual, unique, perception of the world, the self and the int

Roshan Palat
Jun 13, 20212 min read


7 Chakras- The Top 5 Positive Psychological Qualities of the Chakras
Muladhara Chakra Based on the World of Instinct and the Core Physical Body, the Muladhara Chakra is also the Foundational Circle of the...

Roshan Palat
Jun 13, 20212 min read


Yoga Psychology | Overcoming Fear
Fear arises with Life, for all that is born will surely die. A star, a planet, a human or a tree, all of these have a life expectancy...

Roshan Palat
Jun 13, 20214 min read


What is Yoga Psychology? Part II
Difference between Modern Psychology and Yoga Pscyhology Contemporary psychology works towards forming a theoretical and functional...

Roshan Palat
Jun 11, 20204 min read


Yoga Nidra - The Tantric Practice to Experience Turiya
Defining Yoga Nidra ‘Bestowing Love upon oneself’, is the meaning of Nidra , the Sanskrit word for Sleep, broken down to its Dhatu , or...

Roshan Palat
Jun 1, 20205 min read
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