1st YOGA Magazine
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Dear YOGA Magazine Readers,
Greetings and Blessings!
February is a threshold month—winter not yet released, spring only hinted at. It is a time when inner listening matters as much as outer discipline, and this issue is shaped around that very movement: from surface to depth, from habit to meaning, from noise to song.
Several pieces invite us underground, both literally and metaphorically. In the latest chapter of Ariel’s mythic journey, a dream becomes a doorway, leading her beneath the familiar into a living tunnel of memory and sound. Elsewhere, awakening arrives in a more unsettling form: a revelatory vision in a Tokyo nightclub slices through a life of excess, reminding us that moments of truth often appear unannounced—asking us to choose differently and live more honestly.
Balance—not as optimisation, but as relationship—threads through much of this issue. Ayurvedic wisdom reframes health as harmony with time, nature, and constitution, restoring dignity to food, rest, and moderation. Pregnancy yoga is offered not as performance, but as an evolving conversation between mother and baby, while explorations of the Pranamaya Kosha and Yoga Nidra guide us into subtler territories, where breath, energy, and conscious rest become profound agents of healing and renewal.
This issue also asks searching questions about what yoga is—and whom it is for—in the modern world. A collaborative approach to yoga education challenges competitive, assessment-driven models, returning practice to embodiment, psychological safety, and everyday resilience. Trauma-informed breathwork reveals how yoga can quite literally bring someone back from the edge. Meanwhile, in her regular column, Rola bridges studio and science, exploring how secular yoga improves physical and mental health, and how simple ethical themes can quietly deepen meaning, connection, and wellbeing.
Living voices of wisdom and lineage ground these explorations. In an uncompromising interview, Rozaliya challenges the reduction of yoga to fitness, insisting instead on mastery, freedom, and inner authority born of direct experience. A pivotal moment in the life of T.K.V. Desikachar reminds us how grace can abruptly interrupt our plans and redirect us toward service, while an ancient epic is retold with fresh narrative power, allowing timeless questions of dharma to speak again to modern hearts.
Taken together, these offerings form a spiral rather than a straight line—inward, downward, and ultimately outward again. May this issue meet you where you are, and gently invite you to listen for the song beneath your own feet.
And in this month of connection and care, we wish you a reflective and Happy Valentine’s.
With love and light,
Yogi Maharaj Dr. Malik
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