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Meet Emma Seppala at the NetIP conference

Have an interest in the fascinating field of psychology? Come meet Emma Seppala. She received her BA from Yale University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. She is currently a research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. Her research centers on compassion, belongingness, and well-being. She is currently evaluating the effects of yoga- and meditation-based interventions for veterans returning from Iraq/Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder. Emma is a science writer/contributing editor at Spirituality & Health magazine. She has also provided consulting on well-being for corporations and teaches students on university campuses.

Learn more about Emma, and other speakers, and also information about how to register for the upcoming conference on the conference website.

NetIP Conference Registration is OPEN!

Meet Global Director of Yoga Research and Training, Krishan Verma!

Yogacharya and Yoga Shiromani Krishan Verma is the Global Director of Yoga Research and Training and Sri Sri Yoga Teacher Training for the Art of Living Foundation. With the Foundation’s Founder, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, since 1986, Krishan was one of the first teacher training teachers in India and North America. He has trained more than 2,000 teachers in yoga in twenty countries and also teaches advanced meditation retreats. Krishan guides his students to capture the true experience of yoga through the outer study of the ancient discipline and the inner study of the self. Krishan previously worked as a Senior Engineer with the Government of Canada.

Learn more about Krishan Verma, and learn about other fabulous speakers at this year’s conference at the official conference website!

Meet yoga guru Carrie Getsinger at the 2011 NetIP Conference!

It has been proven that practicing yoga can improve your mood, can lead to stress reduction, blood pressure and a number more health benefits. Time for you to learn more about it! Meet an experienced yoga teacher, Carrie Getsinger at this years conference. Carrie moved to the DC area three years ago to pursue a Masters in Security Studies from Georgetown University. Upon graduation, she had the opportunity to pursue her passion for yoga and attended Bikram yoga teacher training. She has been teaching Bikram yoga full-time since December 2009 and currently manages Hot Yoga Bikram Tysons in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

You will leave the session with an understanding of the differences between yoga forms, ideas of how to incorporate yoga and meditation into the daily grind, and hopefully a newfound interest to explore at least one type of yoga!

Read more about Bhaswati and our other Cultural Awareness speakers at the official NetIP Annual conference website

Finding Shangri La: Improving Your Journey – Dealing with Difficult People at Work

Each week our blog will feature health and wellbeing articles from guest contributors. We hope to empower NetIP readers in mind and body to reach their best. MMA Yoga combines the disciplines of martial arts and yoga to allow greater energy flow. 

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We’re all here to become enlightened regardless of where we are, whether at work, at play or at home.  Enlightenment is the goal at the end of the journey and the immediate goal along the way is to live each day as fully and as best as we can.  Most of our co-workers are just great, reliable and amiable people.  But then there’s that one person who is just impossible, unreasonable and maybe even insufferable.  What a dichotomy then, when we’re on our way to enlightenment, trying to fulfill joyful, successful and meaningful days in the midst of one who seems determined to make everyone’s life unbearable.  What can be the lesson in this?  Can we find a way to turn this problem around.  If we apply some of the ancient wisdom of the Yogic principles we can.  The old Yoga masters had a saying that “the Yogi controls his environment”.  He is able to do this through his senses, guided by his emotions and although it’s too deep of a subject for a short blog, suffice it to say that there is simple technique.  I call this technique: The Three Likables.  You start by trying to find a golden thread within the personality of the person that you can encourage to a better personality.  During a time when tensions are not high, observe this person and look for something about them that is attractive.  Are they  well-groomed? Always have impeccable hair or fashion? Read more here

Acharya Sri Khadi Madama writes a weekly column for Oye! Times on Yoga: Improving Your Life At Work, which is a metaphor bridging the culture of ancient India with the stress of today in an entertaining and useful way. Recipient of the Jewel Of India Award, TV Host of Yours Truly, Yoga Specializing in Yoga Media Conceptualization & Choreography. Author of “Finding Shangri La: Seven Yoga Principles for Creating Success & Happiness. Visit www.yourstrulyyogatv.vpweb.com 

Improving Your Journey by Keeping Your Spirits Up!

Each week our blog will feature health and wellbeing articles from guest contributors. We hope to empower NetIP readers in mind and body to reach their best

Finding Shangri La: Improving Your Journey

by Acharya Sri Khadi Madama

Some people cannot seem to help themselves from ruining an otherwise pleasant occasion.  Whether at the workplace or at a social gathering or dinner, they simply cannot resist littering the environment with the debris of bad news, gruesome crime or medical stories, or some unsavory story about their personal life.  B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga Grandmaster, says in his book Light On Yoga, that “…. one should be a sacred place for others”.   Likewise, we should treat others as a sacred place as well.  How often a person, calmly pursuing their work will be beset upon by someone else in a frenzy.  So blinded by it that he is completely unaware that he is disturbing the space, peace and duty of the set upon person.

Caught up in his or her own drama, they do not care.  Well dressed dinner or party guests, thankful for a night away from doldrums or their own problems, who are seeking refuge in the happy company of others that they hope will lift them out of themselves in the  passing joyful time, are victims.  Often, of one or two guests, who are determined to bring everyone else down, are talking about subjects that are better left for a time when, perhaps, they can be discussed and a real solution can be found.  And so it is, that we should all be aware of how our speech and demeanor can completely deflate the atmosphere of a happy and joyful seeking crowd by sheer selfishness and misplaced talk.

• Remember to be a sacred place for others and to be a shining light of kindness, authenticity, compassion and loving words when interacting with friends and family.
• Don’t dress up in your finery only to soil it with low gossip, complaining, sarcasm, or wearing anger or whining on your sleeve.
• Set an example for others by being the epitome of joy, wisdom, fun and serenity.
• Take 5 deep breaths before setting out for any get together to help you put yourself in the best light.

Acharya Sri Khadi Madama is available for “Finding Shangri La” Workshops, Consulting and Coaching to help you apply these principles in your personal and professional life, based on the concepts in her book, Finding Shangri La: Seven Yoga Principles for Creating Success & Happiness, available at Barnes & Noble, Borders Books , Amazon.com and your favorite bookstore.   You may also visit her website at www.yourstrulyyogatv.vpweb.com