Author name: Sapna Sondhi Dutt

Every person has faced some form of trauma in their lives. In one’s teenage years if a person was teased for being fat, well that’s a traumatic experience for the person being teased. Trauma can occur with life threatening situations, due to being physically abused, rejected, failing at something, ostracized and so on. Trauma is […]

If we stumble or falter or hurt ourselves during our yoga practice, we must ask our teacher the reason why this occurred. Once armed with the knowledge of why this happened to us, we can now prevent it from happening the next time. There are any number of reasons why one could suffer from an

One of the most common questions directed my way by Sydneysiders via my Online Yoga Classes in Sydney is – how to achieve blissful sleep without relying on addictive pills. Sweet Sydneysiders you are not alone in this predicament. Half the world is looking for answers to a peaceful nights rest. Imagine using some simple

Aptly also called “yoga of the hands,” Mudras are hand gestures which originate from ancient Indian yogic traditions. The word ‘Mudra’ comes from the Sanskrit term meaning “seal” or “gesture.” ‘Mudras’ are formed by manipulating the fingers and thumbs in different positions which then influence the flow of energy in the body. Mudras find extensive

It’s certainly not an untruth when we hear people say that our ancestors were far ahead of their times! Our ancestors figured out routes by reading the stars and constellations. Sushruta (800BC) was the founding father of surgery way back when the rest of the world had no idea about ‘shalya tantra’ or surgical science. Yogic wisdom too

If I was really short on time, say for a fortnight, and I could only squeeze in one single posture everyday….. guess which posture that would be?I would not hesitate to say it would be a heart-opener. Heart opening is essentially a less intimidating term for backbends. Besides, it describes what backbends do – they expand the chest

We have over 20 muscles operating in the region of the hips. These include the adductors in the inner thighs, the abductors in the outer thighs, the hip flexor muscles which move through the pelvis and attach to the upper thigh bone, the femur the lateral rotators in the pelvic region and the extensors, at

According to Vedic tradition, the ‘Sun’ is the eternal source of heat energy and light energy necessary for life. Surya or ‘Aditya’, as the ‘Sun’ is known in the ‘Puranas’ (ancient Hindu literature) sustains life forms, our ecosystem, and even the primary forces on our planet responsible for Earth’s rotation, revolution, and the many galactic happenings in

Today’s blog is dedicated to yoga enthusiasts in Perth. Inviting you Perthians to join ‘Yoga With Sapna’ Online Yoga Classes, brought to you all the way from yogas birthplace, India. Enrol via this link Online Yoga Classes in Perth. Since a Perthite broached this topic of the Lymphatic System, today we enhance our knowledge of