"The Morean Art Center will dedicate a gallery to Margie's work during the annual members' show starting Friday, September 3rd. Most of the work will be for sale with the receipts going to an annual members' show award to the artist who best steps outside their normal media. We have tried to price the work reasonably so that it will find homes with Margie's friends and admirers. Read more

Snatam Kaur, Guru Ganesha Singh and Ramesh Kannan

Sunday, September 26 at Yoga Village 9AM-12PM/2-5PM

$115/$135 at the door     Click here to buy your tickets now!

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For a fresh look at Kundalini Yoga basics, check out this article by Lola Campbell in Examiner.com, Tampa Bay Edition.

Yoga Village is featured as the local, go-to studio for Kundalini classes and teacher training. Read more

The concept of guru is a mysterious one for Westerners. Too often we envision a bearded man in a loin cloth possessed of higher knowledge, perhaps sitting in a swamp like Yoda in Star Wars. Wisely, his knowldege is meted out to the worthy, one secret at a time. 

Probably not. In fact, a guru or teacher is more akin to a good coach.

Like all good coaches, he or she has three distinct viewpoints that can help us advance our Yoga practice.  Read more

What got you into yoga? When, Where, Why?

I came to Yoga as a recreational athlete looking for flexibility, and the breathing made lots of sense. As I practiced, I learned and realized how much more Yoga could offer. Read more

What got you into yoga? When Where Why?

I fell into yoga, visiting a friend in Switzerland and her yoga teacher was my first. I had a profound experience of pure inner silence, and knew from that, that something very deep and transformative had occurred. Read more

Maria has been a part of the Yoga Village family since it's inception. She was a much-loved Hot instructor and also worked at the desk. Her passing has been a personal loss for many of us at Yoga Village and we would like to extend our condolences to her family, who held a memorial service for her in New York on May 25. Read more

Many people start a Yoga practice seeking another way to exercise. Soon they discover there's a lot more to it than that. Why do people keep practicing for years, even decades?

You begin to wonder, "What's this all about? I need to do some research." Read more

What got you into Yoga? When? Where? Why?

I first did Yoga back in the '80s when Yoga was just Yoga. There didn't seem to be so many varieties and flavors. After a long sabbatical, and a child, I started taking classes again as a stay-at-home mom. I ended up in a Bikram studio, The Tampa Bay Yoga Center. I found a community and fell in love with the practice all over again. Read more

What got you into yoga? When, Where, Why?
I went to a Yoga class with a friend in 2001. Neither of us knew what we were getting into, but thought it would be fun to stretch and relax. I liked it. I didn't think much else about it for several months more. Then I made a move from Birmingham back to my hometown in Athens, Alabama. Read more

Margie (Narayan) Steward left her physical body in the Amrit Vela on March 30. Her spiritual name, Narayan, refers to the aspect of Infinity that relates to water and creativity. She was an accomplished artist and Yogi. Read more

What got you into Yoga?

My first Yoga class was in my NYC studio apartment. 19 years old. I wore leotards! My instruction was from the book, "Richard Hittleman's Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan." I loved that routine and practiced religiously for a couple of years and then as needed for nearly two decades. Read more

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Snatam Kaur




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Listen for yourself.

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The practice of yoga makes improvements within us that make us better companions, parents, children and siblings.

Give yourself the gift of yoga and here are eight gifts that others will receive. Read more

by Nam Hari

The calendar year of 2010 shifts the psyche of humanity into a proactive rhythm of accomplishment and regeneration. We have just come through a catharsis of cleansing, completion and clearing of all that cannot be maintained in the Aquarian Age. 2009 was the cosmic rotor-rooter of this process. With the initiative spirit of number 10 we now have the wind in our sails to move forward in new directions. Read more

Modern psychology in a movement that has come to be known as "positive psychology" is looking for ways that people can be happier. You recall the old psychology business model was looking for ways that miserable people can be normal.

What these new-frontier psychologists are showing in their laboratatories is that the ancients had it right all along when they encouraged positive emotions. The Yoga Sutra calls the practice Santosha, or simply contentment.
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People are always asking, "what is Kundalini Yoga?" "How is is different."

Check out this video from Gurmukh from Los Angeles. This thirty-year veteran of the practice has it down.

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Researchers have shown that the Kundalini meditation technique called the Kirtan Kriya can reduce and even reverse the effects of Alzheimers disease. Read more

The positive psychology movement is now about ten years old. Prior to that, psychology explored the questions, "what's wrong with these people and how do we fix them?" 

Positive psychology asks very different questions. "Some people are happy and thriving. How do they do that?" "How do we teach other people who are not thriving how to thrive?" Read more