by Mike Berghan | Jan 20, 2011 | Mike's Blog, News
Remember that your first practice of the New Year does not set the tone for the rest of the year, just as your first Suryanamaskar does not set the tone for the rest of your practice.
by Mike Berghan | Oct 12, 2010 | Mike's Blog, News
I am constantly receiving emails and requests to attend or advertise workshops that involve learning Meditation or Kirtan or Chanting or Pranayama or any of several other yoga related activities. These are all well intentioned and I always put the posters up at the...
by Mike Berghan | Mar 23, 2010 | Mike's Blog, News
Yoga is a lineage. What has this got to do with becoming a Yoga Teacher? The first step on this long journey, is to find a lineage, or method of presenting Yoga that you like and that resonates deeply with you. Yoga has always been passed from teacher to student and...
by Mike Berghan | Mar 10, 2010 | Mike's Blog, News
Yoga is unlike any other study in that learning more about Yoga doesn’t necessarily make you better at it. Here is the anomoly. Yoga is the un-learning of everything into the “All Knowing” Yoga is a practical science. Practice, practice, practice,...
by Mike Berghan | Feb 14, 2010 | Mike's Blog
My Guru, Sri K Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India said to me on numerous occasions “First, master asana, then take Pranayama. When you have mastered Pranayama, then take meditation”. What I find amazing (and I think he did too) is that we Westerners seem to think that...
