AYAMA™ RESOURCES & ARTICLES BY AARON
How to Cultivate More Awareness
How To Cultivate More Awareness Video Transcript: How To Cultivate More Awareness We need to start cultivating a practice of learning to see what it’s in front of us. We have a problem seeing what it’s in front of us. One of the greatest gifts that yoga offers, in so many of the practices, is teaching us to see what's truly in front of us. This practice comes up a lot very...
How To Get Out Of The Box
We all live our life inside of a box. The box for some people is really small, and for other people, it is really big. A few months back, I had started to realize that I was living my life inside of a box. A box that was becoming small and shrinking rapidly. I had told some friends, “I am becoming soft." For me, it was clear what this statement had meant. But it was hard to explain. A simple...
What is the Promise of Yoga – What is Yoga?
What is the Promise of Yoga - What is Yoga? Video Transcript: What is the promise of yoga? One of my friends calls the Yoga sutra “the Book of Promises”. A lot of books such as the Yoga Sutra give you a practice and then there’s a promise that follows that practice. In the Hatha Yoga Pradipika (manual on hatha yoga) there are practices that say:”If you do XYZ, this is going to...
How To Finally Live A Life of Complete Freedom
How To Finally Live A Life of Complete Freedom How would you like to have the ability to do anything you want to do in your life? To go ANYWHERE you want to go? To be ANYTHING you want to be? You can do anything and be anything you want. You know you can! And of course, you have heard this before. You have heard it so many times before that you are sick of hearing it. Why? Because you...
What is Yoga – How to Practice Yoga – The Power of Mantra
How to Practice Yoga With The Power of Mantra Video Transcript: The Power of Mantra The Gayatri Mantra is one of the most powerful mantras in all of the Vedas. Normally when you receive a mantra you have to receive it from a Guru, from a teacher, or from someone who has been authorized. There are some students who seek mantra and teachers who give them mantras. You can go and learn...
The Story of Blue Osa
The Story Of How Yogi Aaron Founded Blue Osa Video Transcript: The Story of Blue Osa This morning I want to talk about a special teaching in yoga. The sanskrit word is Śraddhā, also knows as Shraddha. Shraddha is basically faith. The basic teaching of Shraddha is that the bigger the faith, the bigger your life. In other words, the more faith that you have, the more things will...
Are You Fulfilling The Purpose Of Your Life?
Being a great yogi is about asking yourself: “How am I fulfilling the purpose of my life?" Video Transcript: How Do We Practice Yoga? One of the greatest questions we can ask ourselves in yoga is: "Who Am I?” “ What is my life’s purpose?” "How do I fulfill that purpose?” Gandhi, who is one of the greatest yogis, never did asana yoga, the posture yoga, and he seldom meditated. In...
The Journey to Autobiography of a Naked Yogi
The story and inspiration behind writing Autobiography of a Naked Yogi. When I look at this photo, the story of that boy is far away from me. As the years have passed, I just can not believe my life sometimes. That little boy in those boots seems so young and innocent. His little life was so small yet his imagination was so large. I am amazed at the life I have lived since then. Did these things...
Yogi Aaron’s Childhood
Growing up, there were times for me that marked a special moment. Sometimes it was losing my two front teeth, other times it was spending time with Dad, a Dad who I did not get to see much. Here are four of those moments and why they meant so much to me. 1. This day was monumental for me - my first plane ride. I do not remember why Dad took me for a ride on this plane but only that we did...
Yogi Aaron as a Baby Photo Archives
I believe that every childhood should be a fairytale. I was lucky. For the most part mine was. Growing up in Victoria on Maxine Lane in Cordova Bay Canada was just that. We lived in this very quaint two story house at the end of the lane. To the right of our house was a huge field of grazing horses, maybe 20 or 30 acres, behind us was nothing but forest. In front of us was another small lane...
