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Recently I created a design of a Hindu goddess called Prana Shakti. Today this design was posted over at Smashing Magazine as a June entry in their monthly calendar contest. It is also available as a desktop wallpaper and comes in several sizes.
Prana Shakti is symbolized as a beautiful Hindu goddess who holds weapons in [...]

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Navaratri

During this week and into next week is the Hindu festival of Navaratri. It means “nine nights” and it is a worship of the divine mother in several forms. The goddess represents the active principal of creation, or Shakti. Each night a puja is held celebrating one of the forms of Shakti.
The first 3 nights [...]

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A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had started doing some website designs in addition to my yoga teaching. Today one of my designs was posted over on a design website which has more than 100,000 subscribers as of today. I entered it as a desktop wallpaper calendar for October, 2008, available in several [...]

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It happens very often that people think yoga is part of the Hindu religion, or that because I practice traditional Sivananda yoga which is based somewhat on the Hindu religious deities and other philosophies, that I am a Hindu.
While traditional yoga practices are spiritual (not religious) in nature, they are often associated with the Hindu [...]

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