Yoga is a science and practice of experiencing and evolving a unifying quality of intelligence that underlies all diversities of life and existence. The practice of yoga leads human life to grow in harmony and balance; in wisdom and happiness; in enlightenment – a state of wholeness of consciousness or Kaivalya as described by Maharishi […]
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Rāja Yoga – An introduction
Rāja yoga is a mental connection of the soul with the Supreme Soul, which empowers us to create a divine connection with ourselves, our body, people and the universe. It is a meditation without any rituals or mantras and can be practised anywhere at any time. This meditation is practised with ‘open eyes’, which makes […]
Amrita Yoga from Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
Spiritual leader, humanitarian and visionary, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi is known to manysimply as Amma or Mother. Her life of love, inner strength, and self-sacrifice has inspired people tomake more space in their hearts for others and to dedicate some of their time to social service. Amrita Yoga is a school of yoga directly formed […]
Editorial Note: Spirituality, Management and Society, Issue 4 – Leadership & Hope
Download Issue 4, Oct 2020: English Edition ; Dutch Edition Dear all We are happy to share the fourth issue of OMRISE Magazine with you. We are also delighted to inform you that now all OMRISE magazine content can be accessed online via our website: https://magazine.omrise.org We are humbled by the love and affection which we have received […]
Yoga as inspiration for healthy living
When we are too focused on the outer world, on our physical body and our ever-fluctuating emotions, we often do not pay attention to how different parts of our body work. We do not pay attention to the mutual coherence of our organs and glands and the way our physiologic processes work with our energy […]
Editorial Note: Spirituality, Management and Society, Issue 3 – Yoga
Download Issue 3, June 2020: English Edition ; Dutch Edition Dear all We are happy to share with you our third issue of OM RISE Magazine. We are delighted to inform you that the content of this magazine is now available online at: https://magazine.omrise.org For this issue we have chosen the theme of Yoga to celebrate World Yoga Day. […]
Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga
According to Sri Aurobindo, in order to get through the crisis of mankind, humanity, at least a critical mass of it, must undergo a transformation. This process will ultimately result in a new supramental species. In the Indian history of Yoga, there have been four great syntheses before: the Vedic, the Upanishadic, the synthesis in […]
Yoga – A Healing Connection: About Restraint and Freedom
The self-existent created the senses outward: therefore, one sees outside and not the âtman within. A wise person, with his senses turned away, (from their object), desirous of immortality, sees the âtman within (Kaṭha Upaniṣad, II, 1.1). Birth is the first big movement out. Out of the darkness you are ‘thrown’ into the light of […]
Yoga and Hindu Spiritual Care, Dutch Ministry of Defense
“When they experience that they get over the obstacle course more easily after practicing Yoga, nobody says that Yoga is a waste of time anymore”. In 2003, the Hindu Spiritual Care (in Dutch: HinGV) was established at the Dutch defense forces, with Yoga and Spirituality as one of its aspects. Lead pandit and spiritual counselor […]
Yoga: My Journey Within
Despite having many Hindostani friends, I always thought that Yoga was only meant for Asians who wanted to withdraw from the world and spend their lives in a Himalayan cave. To me Yoga was incompatible with a hectic Western lifestyle. I was born and raised in the multicultural South American country of Suriname and my […]
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