by Mariko Hirakawa | Dec 24, 2018 | Personal Development, Understand the Yogic Mindset, Visionary Guide to Planning Your Best Year Ever
Let’s start off by defining what we mean by a “Vision”. In the context of creating an inspiring plan for 2019, a Vision is a written description of what you intend to manifest in your life in the coming year. It seems so simple and obvious, but so few people...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Dec 23, 2018 | Personal Development, Understand the Yogic Mindset, Visionary Guide to Planning Your Best Year Ever
Have you ever proclaimed your intention clearly to have something in your life and BOOM! Things start happening in the most uncanny way? So there is a lot of truth in the cliche saying, “Clarity is power”, is there not? It’s as if the Universe was...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Mar 25, 2015 | Understand the Yogic Mindset
Because we live in a culture that loves to communicate in sound-bites, we tend to think we know the whole meaning of a word just because we’ve heard of it, or because we have images and concepts associated with it. When I set about to write this post on ahimsa, my...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Mar 18, 2015 | Understand the Yogic Mindset
While studying Yoga philosophy, it’s impossible not to come across grand notions, big words heralded by capital letters, such as Time, Space, the Absolute, Liberation, Self-Realization, and perhaps most elusive of all, the Truth. It’s easy to feel a bit helpless, and...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Mar 11, 2015 | Home Featured Blogs, Understand the Yogic Mindset
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden As we become more practiced on the mat, it’s easy to feel we know it all – downdog, updog, been there, done that. What else is new? It’s so easy to slip into...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Mar 4, 2015 | Home Featured Blogs, Understand the Yogic Mindset
Essay by Mariko Hirakawa, E-RYT, B.A.M.S. Yoga is actually an enormously multi-dimensional, multi-faceted discipline built upon thousands of years of experiential knowledge. We speak of Yoga as if it were a single, homogenous body of knowledge, but Yoga with a capital...
