Reflections
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Insights on yoga practice, philosophy, and the journey of transformation from our teaching community.
The Calisthenics of Yoga
The poses we explore are not simply shape we arrive at. It is a process we experience. Calisthenics invites us to decompose the process into the individual qualities that support it, and in so doing, complements your yoga practice.
21 August 2026
You Are Your Biggest Obstacle, So Step Aside
A beginner is not someone who knows nothing. It's someone who is willing to begin again—and in so doing, discovers that they can still be surprised. There is a childlike wonderment in this, a way of seeing the world as though for the first time.
5 August 2026
The Pose for Yoga Butt
Pain under the sit bones is common enough in yoga that it has a nickname: yoga butt . One pose strengthens the tendons without aggravating the condition.
24 July 2026
The 38 Trillion Beings Who Call You Home
Your body is itself a little Earth that is home to so many inhabitants that they slightly outnumber your own cell count. Read on to learn how the smallest inhabitants are in charge of the largest systems of your body, and how Yogic Nutrition (Mitahara) can bring them to a state of balance.
14 July 2026
The Perceiver's Awakening - The Art of Seeing Clearly
We don't suffer from the world as it is. We suffer from the world as we mis-see it. The snake and the rope is a thought experiment thousands of years old, and its lessons have never been more relevant.
16 June 2026
What 18 Years of Meditation Taught Me About Freedom
My practice is Vipassana , a meditation technique taught by SN Goenka in the Burmese Theravada tradition. Each retreat, I peel back another layer. Each year, I understand myself a little more. Here are seven things I’ve learnt along the path to where I am today.
19 March 2026
Weight Loss is Not About What You Eat — It's About What's Eating You
No meal plan will fix a nervous system stuck in overdrive. No HIIT workout will out-train chronic cortisol. Instead, adopt the practice that teaches your nervous system the Off Switch.
20 February 2026
The Hidden Web of Your Body's Structure and Sensing
Understanding fascia changes how we approach our body, and you can start today with nothing more than a tennis ball.
30 January 2026
Where the Sun Meets the Moon
Modern science calls it Heart Rate Variability - HRV - a measure of how fluidly your nervous system shifts between activation and rest. Researchers now study what yogis have practised for centuries: slow, balanced breathing retrains the autonomic nervous system.
21 January 2026
Listening Well Podcast: Finding Grace Through Yoga
Priyan converses with celebrity Stephanie Bovis on wellness topics ranging from his Yoga Teacher Training Course methodology to the tradition of Advaita Vedanta.
2 September 2024
Spirit Of Yoga Podcast Featuring Nithya Priyan
In his last trip to Ubud to conduct the 9-Day Intensive segment of his Yoga Teacher Training Course, Priyan met up with his teacher Burkhard from the Akasha Yoga Academy to share his yoga journey in an insightful discussion that explored his journey from architect to meditator to yogi.
30 November 2023
The Yoga Underground
Priyan talks about his design for the new expansion of Nithya Priyan School of Yoga in Anchorpoint.
7 September 2023
Feeling Stuck in Your Yoga Journey
"I feel stuck in my practice, not that I am not progressing in flexibility and strength and learning new poses, but that it seems like more of the same after a while. How can I bring myself out of this feeling?" Read on for Priyan’s response to this question.
8 April 2021
Straits Times Life : Former Architect Nithya Priyan Finds His Calling Teaching Yoga
Priyan is interviewed for Straits Times Life section in a segment focusing on Fitness Studios and practitioners during the Pandemic.
26 March 2021