Ashtanga Yoga Library: October 2024

Oct 7, 2024

Interview with Dena Kingsberg

From the Keen on Yoga Podcast

Listen here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6gNffbBdz6TwsNqwjCfKFX?si=Jzqwy80_QuKeysEDj87zZg&context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes

Oct 6, 2024

Sharath USA Tour 2024

NYC October 12-14

Miami October 19-32

San Antonio November 16-20

Info and sign up https://www.sonima.com/yoga/yoga-articles/sharath-tour-2024/

Guy Donahaye Interviews Rolf

Posted by Guy Donahaye on July 8

https://www.integralashtanga.com/mind-medicine/2024/7/8/rolf-interview

Oct 3, 2024

Ashtanga Yoga Home Practice Kit

You'll need:
Practice Space
Practice Surface
Comfortable clothing
Yoga Mala book

Method:
1. Tristhana - Focus on breathing (through the nose, around the ribs), squeezing anus, concentrating the gaze
2. When not to practice - first 3 days of menstruation, sick with fever, saturday or sunday, full/new moon day

What to practice -
Surya Namaskar A 1-5 times and last three asanas each day until you can keep the tristhana the whole time. If you can maintain that for at least a week, then add the next element, Surya Namaskar B.
Repeat Surya Namaskar A 1-5 times and Surya Namaskar A 1-3 times and last three asanas each day until you can keep the tristhana the whole time. If you can maintain that for at least a week, then add the next element, padangusthasana and padahastasana.
Keep going like this and eventually get yourself to a teacher!

Home Practice Support

What to do if you can't make it to a Shala everyday.

Establish a relationship with a living person.
Ideally with just one.
Drop in when you can.
Workshops and retreats.

Create a space.
Clean, distraction free.
Regular time of day.
Quality, not quantity.

In the meantime.
Yoga Mala.
Sharath DVD
Sharath CD

Should I practice if (continued)... by Elise Espat

I don't have very much time?
Yes. Do what you have time for.

I'm running late?
Yes. See above. Quality, never quantity.

I don't have a local shala and I've never established an Ashtanga practice?
Yes.

I don't have a local shala but I do have an established practice?
Yes.

Pinto bean hummus with beet & avocado salad, chapati, and rice

This simple dinner is delicious and easy to prepare.

Pinto bean hummus

Pinto beans (drained of liquid)
Tahini
Lemon
Salt
Olive Oil
Paprika

Place pinto beans and tahini in blender and blend playing with ratios until desired consistency is reached. Add lemon and salt to taste. Blend until smooth. Garnish with olive oil and paprika.

Beet & avocado salad

Red cabbage
Beets
Avocado
Lemon
Pomegranate seeds
Olive Oil

Slice red cabbage super-thin and place in bowl. Shred beets and add to bowl. Slice avocado. Add poegranate seeds. Add queeze of lemon and olive oil.

Rice

Water
Rice

1 cup rice to two cups water in pan. Cover and bring to boil. Turn down low until fully cooked.

Chapati

2 cups Wheat flour
1 cup Water
Salt to taste
Oil

Place wheat flour in bowl. Slowly add a little water and knead. Add a little more water and knead. Keep going like this until similar to play-dough adding more or less water as necessary. Set aside for at least a half hour and even overnight in the fridge. Turn on skillet. Dust surface with flour. Pinch of golf ball size of dough. Roll into ball and then press down on surface. Roll it out. Putoil in pan. Place rolled out dough in pan and let cok until medium sized bubbles begin to form. Flip. Let it puff up for a little bit. Serve.

The Yogic Diet - 3 Gunas

Sattvic (pure) foods
Vegetables -
Fruits - fresh, dried, pure juice
Protein -legumes, nuts, seeds
Grains - corn, barley, wheat, unpolished rice, oat, millet, quinoa
Herbs -
Natural sweeteners - honey, molasses, maple syrup, apple juice concentrate
Dairy - milk, butter, cheese, yogurt

Rajasic (overstimulating) foods
Vegetables - onions, garlic, radishes
Stimulants/intoxicants - coffee, tea, tobacco,
Heavily spiced/salted
Chemicals
Food eaten on the run
White sugar
Soda
Prepared mustard
Pungent spices
Anything excessively hot, bitter, sour, or saline

Tamasic (putrified) foods
meat, fish, eggs
intoxicants, alcohol
stale, rotten, decomposed, unclean, underripe, overrripe, fermetned, burned, fried, barbequed, reheated, canned, processed, prepared, mushrooms, vinegar, overeating (overeating sattvic foods makes them tamasic)

Additional considerations
Factory farming and dairy...

References
Sivananda Yoga Cookbook

Eat more chapatis

The first time I ate a chapati was in Mysore, India and it felt very familiar. I grew up in New Mexico on my grandma's flour tortillas which we used instead of a spoon to eat pinto beans and chile. I was really struggling on my first trip to India and those chapatis helped me feel at home. I later took a cooking class with Tina in Mysore and I remember being very impressed at how simple they were to make and delicious! I attempted my own chapatis, only to yield crackers that were nothing like the fluffy pillows Tina had taught us to make. I gave up for some time, focusing instead on homemade dosas. I was also gluten-free for a few years, so chapatis weren't on my mind...until recently.

I decided to give chapati making another go. The first time, the dough was too dry, but the chapatis came out alright. After that, they keep getting better and better!

You'll need:
2 cups Wheat flour
1 cup water
salt to taste
rolling pin
pan
oil

Make the dough:
Combine ingredients
Knead dough
Set aside

Time to make the chapatis:
Dust a little flour on your rolling surface. Heat oil in pan. You know it is hot enough when you sprinkle water on the pan and it pops.

Pinch off a golfball size amount of dough and roll into a ball. Place on dusted surface. Be careful not to burn the oil.

Gently press ball into disc shape.

Roll out dough.

For some reason, it seems to be helpful to turn the dough between rolls.

Place chapati in pan and repeat rolling process.

Allow air bubbles to form.

When the bubbles get more prominent, flip the chapati.

The chapati will inflate like a hot-air balloon. If it is not inflating, you can press down the edges with a towel. This seals any cracks and will allow the chapati to inflate.

Time for an oil bath?

Directions and videos http://aylibrary.blogspot.com/2012/01/castor-oil-baths.html

Boonchu Tanti http://alliscoming.com/
Jessica Walden
Elise Espat
Facebook facebook.com/theyogacomics

Led Class Etiquette

How to be the most polite of Ashtangis:

ARRIVING

Read our etiquette

1. Know your practice space. Go the yoga shale's website and find out how much class will cost and if you can pay by cash, card, or either. Are there yoga mats available to borrow or should you bring your own? Read any recommendations or etiquette notes and follow them.

2. Leave refreshments at home or work, etc. Asana is practiced on an empty stomach. There are some exceptions (such as pregnancy). If you aren't sure, contact the shala and ask.

3. Wear clean, comfortable clothing.

4. Arrive early. If class starts at 6:30am, be there at 6:15am. This allows plenty of time to sign-in, pay, fill out forms, put away your belongings, use the restroom, set up your mat, etc.

IN THE ROOM

1. Introduce yourself to the teacher if you are new.

2. Always alert the teacher to any conditions.

3. Ask the teacher where to place your mat.

4. Be aware of where water is for Garba pindasana

5. Maintain silence.

DURING CLASS

1. Wait for the count.

2. If you are a Mysore student, stop at your last asana and wait for further instruction.

Visual Traveling: India

http://www.bbc.com/travel/video/one-day-in/20121102-mumbai

Surya Namaskar A Demonstration

No Fearing! A practical guide to starting a Mysore practice

Anyone can practice.

Don't be intimidated about starting your practice.

You don't need to know anything. Your teacher will show you.

Everyone starts this way.

I was very afraid before I started. I get it. Now I know better.

In India you can't be afraid.

Read up. KPJAYI on the practice and where to find a teacher nearby.

Contact the teacher and set a time to observe a Mysore class.

Start by observing. The whole point is to get settled into the vibe of the space including the people. TO feel relaxed and comfortable. You are investing in your education and a community, not a massage or gymnastics. Email to request a time to observe. You'll get a tour. Find out how the classroom works, etc. Be ready to remove your shoes and turn off electronics! Read the etiquette. Ask about the schedule (below) and tuition. You'll figure out where it is and how long it will take you to get there. Essentially we are trying to set a strong and fertile foundation for a lifelong sustainable practice. Slow and steady. Tell them about injuries, concerns, etc. Here is our etiquette at the shala.

You've decided the practice is for you. Read the schedule. When does the door open? When does the teacher arrive? What time is the opening mantra? When should you pay? What will you need? Budget an hour although it will probably be less.

You've figured out a start date and time. What to wear and where to find it. Towel. Yoga mat and rug maybe. You'll need fresh ones each day. Be barefoot. Pay your tuition.

The day before. Eat light, sleep well, and hydrate. Set out your clothes. Establish good habits from day one. Review etiquette. Pay tuition.

That day. Bathe. Don't eat or drink. Arrive in advance. Fill out forms if you haven't already and pay tuition. The teacher will show you what to do.

Return the next day and the next.

Part II The first month of practice.

Interview with Paul Gold

e: Paul Gold

Age: 45

Hometown: Toronto, Canada

# of trips to India: 9, I think.

Current Location: Toronto, Canada

Your yoga shala: Ashtanga Yoga Shala Toronto

Established: 2002

Practice with help from Rachelle, 2013.

What was your first impression of Mysore practice?

It felt very authentic and exotic at the same time.

A Mysore room was quieter than any yoga class I’d ever attended. All I could hear was the sound of breathing and the occasional whisper of the teacher.

When I first started practicing in 1995, there were no Mysore classes in Toronto; so, my first months were in led classes. When I got to my first Mysore class, even though I had done loads of led classes and had memorized the sequence, the experience of not having a teacher leading me through practice made it apparent that I had a very distracted mind. It was very hard for me to keep my eyes on my own mat. It was equally difficult to keep my practice moving. I would dawdle and lose the vinyasa constantly. I hadn’t realized the extent that I’d become dependent on the teacher’s voice to move me through my practice.

I clued in that Mysore practice was going to require me to be a much more self-motivated student than I ever had to be in a led class.

What inspired you to get started?

My interest in yoga practice started in 1995 out of a bad break up with a woman whom I had been seeing on-and-off since I was sixteen. Let’s just say that when things finally blew up, I was suffering and was keen on doing some personal work to ensure that I would never be in such a messed up relationship again. So when I saw a pamphlet for a yoga studio in my neighbourhood, I thought “yoga is supposed to be good for me. I think I’ll check it out.” The rest is history.

Toronto, 1996.

What did you like about ashtanga yoga?

I loved the vinyasa and loved how the movement between asanas forced my mind into a more meditative state that had the result, after class, of greater peace and clarity. In effect, just trying to get through class was enough to make thinking about anything else impossible; so, after practice, I would notice that I hadn’t thought about anything for 90 minutes and gained some valuable perspective on my life.

What was hard about it?

Everything was hard. Before starting yoga, I was as an avid alpine skier who skied moguls all day long. I have very bowed legs and limbs that don’t entirely straighten. I also have wrists that don’t bend. Add to the above a stiff back, tight hamstrings and tight shoulders from playing bass guitar. So, everything was difficult for me. It was a festival of resistance, soreness and intense sensations. The only thing that I could do, almost from the first day, was lift up and jump back. The fact that I persevered is really incredible when I think back. I must have strong yoga samskaras from past lives.

Feeding cows in Gokulam, 2009.

What keeps you inspired?

The benefits of practice keep me inspired. For 20 years, I’ve seen how practice makes my life better than it would otherwise be. When I practice, I have more equanimity and that keeps me coming back to my mat. Early on, I noticed that when I busted my ass on my mat and was humbled by the effort of practice, I was more patient and compassionate with others off my mat. That was a huge connection between my practice and my life off the mat. It was very inspiring to see that the benefits of yoga weren’t just limited to the physical realm.

What do you keep with you from your time with Guruji?

I am grateful that I had the opportunity to practice with Guruji many times. My time with him is really the heart and soul of my practice. I can’t imagine what my life would be like if he hadn’t been so dedicated to sharing this method. He is The Source for me and I’ll always be indebted to him for changing my life.

With Rachelle and Guruji, 2003

What do you keep with you from your studies with Sharath?

I have learned from Sharath that steadiness and consistency are the true measures of one’s practice. He has also taught me to be quietly confident in my abilities. I respect Sharath’s dedication to continuing his own practice and sharing Guruji’s teachings. Sharath works so hard and gives so much of himself to others. It’s really incredible and I admire and respect him so much.

What advice do you have for beginners?

1. Focus on your own practice and measure your progress from where you’ve started not from some preconceived idea of where you feel you ought to be.

2. Stay aware of how yoga practice is affecting other areas of your life off the mat… like your sleep, temperament, digestion, sex drive, and courage. There are so many ways that practice benefits us if we pay attention.

3. Find a reason to practice and to keep getting on your mat that is outside of progress in yoga asanas and you will reap the true benefits of yoga.

What books do you recommend people read?

Edwin Bryant’s edition of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.

Bhagavad Gita – Ramakrishna ashram edition with commentary is quite good.

Yoga Mala by Sri K Pattabhi Jois

In Search of God by Swami Ramdas

Our old Shala in downtown Toronto.

Interview with Angela Jamison

Name: Angela Jamison Age: 37 Hometown: rural Yellowstone County, Montana # of trips to India: 5 Current Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan Your yoga shala: Ashtanga Yoga: Ann Arbor Established: 2010

Last time I blew off a day of practice: April 2003 What was your first impression of Mysore practice? Wow, these people are focused. What inspired you to get started? A near death experience in 2002 made me get serious about daily practice.

What did you like about it? It brought out a side of my personality I didn’t know was there: this new person who was intense, devoted, and oddly free from the needs to feel knowledgeable or in control. What was hard about it? It made me see that I was spiritually repressed. As a preacher’s kid who had rejected religion in favor of academia, I had settled into a materialist, scientific world view. But the whole reason I loved practice was that it put me in a state of mind in which I felt that i didn’t know anything. It was disorienting to spend two hours every day in intense mind-body awareness, where rational and scientific explanations of my experience were meaningless.

How did you move past those challenges? I guess I just practiced more. Once I had tools and space to look directly at my mind, I was both fascinated and terrified by it. The clear, but unstated, lesson from the ashtanga practice was that moving toward my fear was a good idea. So I started doing sitting practice also. What keeps you inspired? Students 200%. I am introverted, very sensitive to others’ energy, bookish, and tend to prioritize depth over breadth, so there has always been a tendency toward self-seclusion. But as a teacher I feel it’s important to me to just be a normal, approachable, non-pretentious person in the world. Nevertheless, there is a series of filters that students need to pass through before I’ll accept them in the shala, and I only take one new person at a time. Our Mysore program here is capped, and I refuse to let it get too crowded, even though I don’t like making people wait or turning them away. I just love the method so much that I want to do it justice: that means making sure that every new student gets good foundational instructions.

Weirdly, this arrangement (which I made for pedagogical reasons) has led to a yoga school where there is a huge amount of creative inspiration al over the place. I mean, there is kind of TOO MUCH inspiration - sometimes there is such a desire to practice and study with this group, at such a depth, that I feel my heart will burst. And sometimes I realize that I’m so excited about teaching that I’m forgetting to tend to normal, everyday human things. I’ve also stopped writing (not counting my private journal), which I do regret. So there are some problems with being inspired by students, although I consider these good problems to have. Since I was a kid, creative inspiration has been one of the only things I really cared about in this life. I never would have expected it to be such a strong theme in the business of running a yoga school where the physical method is somewhat rote, and the meditation technique - tristhana - is (in a sense) very straightforward. But it turns out there is a lot of evolution happening in this practice, and that is pure creative energy.

What do you keep with you from your time with Guruji? Guruji was not my teacher - he never knew my name or taught me a posture. The strong feeling I have for him comes through my teacher Dominic Corigliano, who shares his constant awareness of Pattabhi Jois through stories and just through his way of being. Noah Williams has also shared some of that transmission with me, simply because Guruji is so often on his mind. But even from a distance, Guruji did seem to grace me with one of his far-out pranks, which is discussed here: http://www.insideowl.com/2014/06/22/svadyaya-is-not-a-crime/

What do you keep with you from your studies with Sharath? I will try not to say to much here, because I feel that talking a lot about relationships with teachers can dissipate the energy of the transmission. So to speak generally, I’ll say that Sharath’s first set of teachings for me seemed to be about contacting the humor and absurdity of just being a human. I had come to take my concentration and my pratyhara so seriously - and so personally - by the time I first landed in Mysore. Sharath would crack jokes to me when I was in hard posture or catch my eye (altering my drishti) and say something hilarious. I’m sure the first smiles I EVER cracked during practice were with him. My time with Sharath has given rise to a quality of light-heartedness which was not there before. What is your daily schedule like?

3:00 get up, do some kriyas and sitting practice, get ready for the day

3:45 -4:00 walk to the shala

4:00 - 4:30 chant, burn sage and incense, clean the shala energetically and physically

4:30 - 6:15 practice

6:15 - 8:30 teach

8:30 - 9:00 meditate at the shala

9:00-9:45 walk home, swing by co-op grocery, check on the garden, roll in the grass, shower and change

9:45-1:00 work - either teaching privates or doing shala business, take 30 minutes of quiet time for a small breakfast between 10-11.

1:00 - 3:00 big lunch, rest

3:00 - 4:00 household chores, shala related errands, etc

4:00 - 6:30 work again. Teach small classes or privates at home, meet with students, answer email, receive energetic bodywork. If all that is cared for, this is reading time. If my husband is coming home from work early that night, I’ll make him dinner and sit with him while he eats.

6:30 Evening alarm sounds. That means it’s time to get away from screens, stop talking with people, and go to my yoga room to do sitting and restorative practice. This is some combination of meditation, self-massage, yin style and restorative practice, yoga nidra, binaural beats, or lucid dreaming until bed at about 9:00. This is 2-3 hours of self-care and deep relaxation every evening.

How do you balance family, practice, and running your own business?

Practice is first. It gets my best, clearest energy daily. Regarding family, my husband is the boss of my schedule on the weekends - otherwise I’d never see him.

Regarding children, the amount of work I do for the shala would not be possible with young ones. The Mysore teachers who are also *primary* caregivers are demi-gods to me - they have achieved a level of selfless service that is beyond me. In almost every case, these amazing people are women. If I were to have children, everything would have to change, and I’d have far less to give to students. But I’m not sure that will ever happen. I know most people have children because they feel a primal, and evolutionary, drive to do so. I haven’t experienced that. Rather, what I have experienced is extreme social pressure to reproduce - so much of it, from so early in life, that I developed an immunity to it. Much to my parents’ and inlaws’ displeasure. But I slowly came to understand that the meaning of my life is in no way dependent on having children, and that I can fill my own primal and evolutionary need to serve others in a creative variety of ways. I’m not afraid of being unfulfilled in this life, no matter how it unfolds. For centuries, many men have concluded that their spiritual path, and their ability to serve others, is best fulfilled by refraining from having children. But it has been unacceptable for women - who traditionally do far more of the work for a child’s rearing - to reach this same conclusion. I feel we are entering an age when women also will have space to choose such a path. I have not always been allowed that space, so I have simply (and up until this exact moment, quietly) taken it. I hope you won’t judge me too harshly for sharing from my heart on this matter; and I pray that I have chosen the right time to share this information.

One more comment on balance: For me, developing an ability to do self-care and restoration has been as important for my spiritual and emotional health as developing a highly conscious relationship with food. Relaxation and sleep are skills! I would submit that ashtanga teachers are entitled to a lot of time for self-care and spiritual development. A traditional ashtanga teacher who lives the life and walks the walk is a rare creature. We don’t want such creatures to go extinct. Their care and feeding is crucial! Shala fees need to reflect the importance of this work in their schedules. And if possible, students should become sensitive to the importance of respecting their teachers’ time and energy so they don’t burn out.

What advice do you have for beginners?

1. Filter heavily. The essence of ashtanga is direct transmission, in person, from one person to another. You can’t learn the technical practice on the internet. That’s fake. Keep your own learning process pure by cultivating real human relationships with teachers, and by taking the best from ALL the teachers and communities you encounter. We are one, and it is only maya that divides up the world in to us and them and other dualities - please remember that if you take this advice of filtering heavily. Comfort with paradox is part of spiritual maturity, and all ashtangis can access that sort of maturity from day one if they want it.

2. Use critical thinking, and trust your gut, when choosing teachers. But once you know you trust someone, don't focus too much on teachers’ limitations or their confusing aspects. Also don’t pretend teachers are god, projecting all your own inner goodness and wisdom on to them. All humans have flaws and it’s important to see each other honestly and give each other grace. What seems to give the most sustainable strength in relationships with teachers is focusing on their most inspiring qualities, being grateful for them, staying wary of any tendencies for ethical trouble in the base realms (money, sex, power, attention), and cultivating a sense of humor waaaaay earlier in the practice than I did.

3. Be skeptical about workshops and anything like asana tricks and tips. I say this because I LOVE the physical practice and despair to see people slowing down their own physical progress by looking for tricks and tips. The only trick is consistent practice. Casting about for more analysis or more instruction just dissipates practitioners’ energy and thus makes it harder to learn the physical skills they seek. Their main purpose is to generate cash for yoga studios - thus the hype. Maybe choose one or two per year at most, with teachers you adore and with whom you want to develop a true relationship. Unless you really have no support from a true teacher relationship, don’t take random postures or “asana tips” at workshops - keep the physical practice stable, with a regular teacher who really knows you, without too many cooks in the kitchen. Your physical practice will definitely progress more quickly this way, if you don’t dissipate your energy by taking too much instruction. If they have any use at all, the main benefit of workshops is to connect with the greater tradition and the broader community.

4. If you teach too early, you will ruin your own practice. You’ll also, in a small way, ruin THE practice. You will put definitions on things from an immature place, and you are likely to remain stuck in the immature framework teaching forces you to articulate. Stay in the space of not knowing what it’s all about. That’s where you learn most and evolve fastest. If you teach before you’ve mastered the material, you’re just doing it selfishly to try to understand the material. But if you wait until you’re really in a place of selfless service (rather than fascination with your own limitations in the practice and projection of your own limited experience on to others), then what you offer will be of genuine, evolutionary value and your students will go farther, faster.

Ashtanga is an extremely powerful method, and if you try to teach it without full and compassionate understanding of a huge variety of body-minds, or without a senior teacher who has actively transmitted the teaching method to you while you are under her wing, you will hurt people. If you presume to teach, you are responsible for knowing the whole method, for offering it in a healing manner, and for being able to serve anyone with a sincere desire to practice.

If someone tries to push you in to teaching before you are ready to transition from sadhana to seva, they are probably exploiting you. Use your filter. Never teach with the motive of making money. It’s no way to make a living. In the big picture, for some time people lose money teaching. That’s helpful. It’s a great ego-check on whether one’s teaching practice is really about selfless service.

When I first started practicing, I heard a legend that Guruji said you needed 10 years of practice before you could think about teaching. That legend saved my practice from many possible energy drains. Maybe it’ll help you stay focused too.

What is your favorite thing about this practice? I don’t know. I’m just in love, and have been for a long time - long enough to turn my life upside down over and over again. Long enough to hold and release dozens of mindsets like the one articulated in this interview. I finally got it through my head that ashtanga yoga is not the ONLY practice in this world, even though it’s still my main squeeze. I’ve accepted that, somehow, other people can love other methods. Still there is nothing about this practice, this community and our teachers, that I do not find precious. At the moment, I’m especially overwhelmed by its dramatic, sometimes terrifying, capacity to open my heart. Probably when my heart is done opening, I’ll think all the opinions expressed here are worthless. But I share them anyway in case they can get you across some uncertainties here at the start of your practice. Not acting, and instead remaining introverted, is not always an option. What books do you recommend people read? Start with Guruji, edited by Stern and Donahaye. The Heart of Yoga by Desikachar is worth reading annually for the first decade. There is one legitimate internet swami - swamij.com - read that guy over and over again instead of garbage on FB or EJ. Tap in to ayurveda early - a guided ayurvedic cleanse is a good way in, seasoned with anything and everything by Svoboda and Frawley. Eventually find a way to get interested in the Hathayogapradipika, the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras. It makes sense if they feel dry at first, but there is SO much there. Finally, read several good cultural-political histories of India if you’re headed to Mysore - people who take pilgrimage to KPJAYI without some knowledge of the context miss out on many fascinating layers of reality there.

Oct 2, 2024

Little moon day notes / links to check out

Navratri

- colors

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/fashion/style-guide/navratri-colours-day-date-wise-list-of-9-navratri-colors-and-their-significance-sharad-navratri-colours-list/featureshow/113851775.cms

ARGHALA STOTRAM

https://greenmesg.org/stotras/durga/argala_stotram.php

Maha Lakshmi Ashtakam

https://www.siddhayoga.org/practices/chanting/hymns/mahalakshmi-stotram

Narayani Stuti

https://greenmesg.org/stotras/durga/narayani_stuti.php

Sri Durga Saptashati

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oivShijbbTU

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