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Notice embodied intelligence: attention, breath, and openness reveal cognition beyond narrow neural explanations.

Surprising clinical cases invite yogas embodied curiosity: intelligence can reconfigure beyond expected neural limits. From Cases of Unconventional Information Flow Across the Mind-Body Interface on ingentaconnect.com

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Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/when-mind-outruns-the-brain/
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Concepts: Chitta · Prana · Samskara · Viveka

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When external systems collapse, the practice becomes meeting what’s actually happening instead of clinging to what was promised

Guys! Let’s start with a BONUS issue focused on handstand, right HERE! Functional Ashtanga Range Conditioning- Handstand A handstand is a line. That’s it. Spine, shoulders, wrists, hips — all stacked. The hard part isn’t strength. It’s that every joint in the chain needs enough range to get there, and most of us are short somewhere. This is the Functional Range Conditioning approach to building one. 🦴 The Big Questions Three joints run the show.

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Concepts: Avidya · Shavasana · Tapas · Viveka

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Predatory hegemony isn’t strength—it’s avidya dressed up as strategy, mistaking extraction for security and deference for respect.

Stephen Walt’s analysis of predatory hegemony in Foreign Affairs reads like a case study in what happens when avidya — fundamental misperception — drives policy. The premise is simple: if you believe the world is zero-sum, you’ll act like a predator. You’ll extract, exploit, demand tribute. You’ll mistake deference for respect and compliance for partnership. Walt describes a shift from benevolent hegemony — where the U.S.

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Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/the-zero-sum-trap/
Original source: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/predatory-hegemon
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Concepts: Avidya · Aparigraha · Dharma · Santosha

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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I'm keeping this question intentionally open ended. I'm curious if yoga has helped you in your relationships, including the physical benefits but also the mindset of love/lust/romance etc. Has it had any impact on your libido (increased/decreased), stamina, satisfaction, cravings, connection with your partner, calming the mind of outside temptations etc.

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When we copy a brain neuron by neuron, will we copy consciousness—or discover it was never in the brain to begin with?

Scientists simulated a fly brain and gave it a virtual bodyand now we're asking the question yoga's been asking for millennia. From Researchers Upload Fly's Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body on futurism.com

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Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/the-ghost-in-the-mecha-fly/
Original source: https://futurism.com/science-energy/research-fly-brain-matrix
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Concepts: Prana · Samskaras · Atman · Embodiment

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Yoga and AI alike invite us to notice how we animate the forms we inhabit—and what parts of ourselves are reflected back.

Duan suggests its our presence that animates technologyjust as attention brings asana to life on the mat. From Is AI really consciousor are we bringing it to life? on scientificamerican.com

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Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/is-ai-conscious-or-are-we-animating-the-machine/
Original source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-ai-really-conscious-or-are-we-bringing-it-to-life/
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Concepts: Svadhyaya · Satya · Abhyasa · Pratyahara

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