Vegetarian Cuisine BAKED BUTTERNUT SQUASH - Serves 4 For our Sivananda students in the Southern Hemisphere we have a favourite in Fall/Autumn dish, with its sweetness and creamy texture. Here is a yellow vegetable, rich Vitamin A content, a perfect accompaniment to acidic foods. Squash helps with acidic stomachs. Ingredients: 1 butternut squash or 2 acorn squash 4 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted 2 cups fresh whole wheat bread crumbs ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg ½ teaspoon grounded cinnamon 2 large eating apples, peeled and cut into chunks Directions: Heat oven to 350 degrees [...]

Sivananda Yoga FAQ Q 1: On what grounds should one refrain from meat-eating? A: On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic and hence should be avoided. When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons [...]

Hatha Yoga Tip NATARAJASANA - DANCING LORD SIVA - A balance posture Begin by standing firmly on both feet. Balance on your left foot keeping the weight firmly on this foot throughout the balance and lift the right ankle to grasp with the right hand. Breathing slowly and rhythmically helps establish the balance. Concentrating on a spot in front of you and spreading the toes of the standing foot helps stabilize balance. Keeping the back straight and the head level, inhale and raise the left arm straight up stretching the fingers up with the [...]

Sivananda World News: The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Zentrum, Berlin, Germany Om Namah Sivaya! Many new courses started this month, two yoga 1 courses and several higher courses, all with good number of students. We started the “Yoga of the heart” course, Bhagavad Gita and a meditation course. For the Pentecost weekend we spontaneously created a little special program with a scorpion workshop and a lecture series on Raja Yoga for the three Satsangs. The weather got warmer and better students and teachers were enjoying many classes outside on the [...]

Sivananda World News: The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams Sivananda Ashram Yoga Camp, Sivananda Headquarters, Val Morin, Quebec, Canada Om Namah Sivaya, Greetings from the Headquarters. The beginning of June at the Yoga Camp Ashram had much movement in preparation before Sadhana Intensive. The staff worked hard to get much of the outdoor projects done in preparation for the start of our summer season. In addition to the continuation of the path, the Krishna Temple roof project was successfully completed. We had two Karma Yoga nights where we went up to the Subramanya Temple and worked [...]