Excerpts from some of the articles in the current issue:
No Headstands At The Yoga Institute – by Devdutt Pattanaik

So Mr Kapadia looks at me strangely, “And you call yourself a Yoga Trainer? How dare you? You are nothing but a fraud. Can’t even teach me how to stand on my head!”

“What’s that got to do with Yoga?” I ask, rattled by the accusation.

“Can you atleast teach me how to stand like a peacock?”

I look at him, that huge belly perched on thunder thighs. Peacock? I don’t think so. “No sir. I am sorry I can’t” I say softly, frightened that the peacock just might turn into a big bad wolf. He does! “Not even a peacock! What kind of Institute is this?”

“We teach Yoga, sir,” I say firmly “Not acrobatics.”……….

Faith by Andrew Levitt
The Yogi’s life must be full of faith. Faith in one’s own capacity, faith in the goodness of the world, faith in the greatness of God, faith in the path of Yoga. Faith is one of our greatest companions, with the capacity to raise us up to the highest.

Yet this deep faith does not come easily for most. Usually our life is full of fear. Fear that we don’t have enough money, fear that our boss won’t like us, fear that we won’t get into school, fear that we are not really loved. In yoga, faith is an active principle which we can build up. It is not simply a subconscious entity beyond our control, but we can if we wish build on the tip of the iceberg. Yoga assumes we all start with some little faith. We must have faith that the sun will rise, that food will be on the table, that we won’t be under nuclear attack, that our job will be there the next day…..if we had not these beliefs we could not function in life. We would sit in paralyzed fear. It is wrong to believe that one can function without any faith………