7. The repetition of the Mantra again and again generates great spiritual force and momentum and intensifies the spiritual Samskaras or impressions. You’ll be able to focus on the most important job when you have the highest momentum and will relax a little once you’ve got it out of the way. But if you’re not in the mood for a run or a trip to the gym, yoga is a good way to get moving, and you can do it in as little as five minutes. So, as I spoke with my friend for a few minutes on the phone, listening to her concerns and sharing my own experiences in return, I was struck, later, as I stood tall in tree pose that this-the methodical breathing and the postures-are merely tools for what my practice actually is: a life-changing process of self-liberation. Another powerful pose to practice if you sit a lot at work is Pigeon. It turns out that each fake pose actually depicts the contortions of a person in the famous Hieronomys Bosch piece The Garden of Earthly Delights. You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Gravy Boat: A international maritime signal flags jigsaw puzzle that turns into a flag semaphore logic puzzle.

It turns out that this is a crossword variant called "Something Different", which given how amusing it is to solve, is tragically underused in puzzlehunts. Sage Advice: There’s a variety puzzle type developed by the great Patrick Berry called Seven Sages. Great nutrition is the basis of a healthy mind and body, which is why it’s vital to eat a healthy breakfast in the morning. It also helps clear your mind from any distractions, which can be a great way to start the day! I ended up spending an extra 40 hours in Massachusetts (way too many of which were spent in Boston Logan’s Terminal C), but I’m typing these words from California where the high today was a beautiful 61°F, so everything seems to have worked out okay. In this Iron Age, Japa Yoga is an easy way for attaining God-realisation. Called Smart Mat, the high-tech yoga accessory gives you step-by-step instructions on what to do during your morning yoga, just as if you were with a real instructor. Delightful: The puzzle gives you a ridiculously funny nine-minute long video which demonstrates various made-up yoga poses each of which are claimed to be modifications of a real yoga asana.

Corresponding the transliterated Sanskrit name of the real Yoga pose and the position of the person on the Bosch painting allows you to extract the answer. The fourth puzzle is standard, but you must use instructions you found in the earlier three to manipulate it to extract the answer. The puzzle had at least three layers embedded within the book, the most interesting of which involved solving a bunch of aptly-named Split Decisions mini-puzzles. It gives you four seven sages puzzles each of which has a twist: in the first puzzle the grid is broken up into pieces that you have to reassemble, in the second, some cells in the grid must contain trigrams instead of single letters, and in the third, any consecutive appearance of the letters "sage" are removed from the clues. You can see the hunt website with all the puzzles and solutions here, and read my first post about the hunt theme and my experience.

Running for Office: For whatever reason, I didn’t do any runaround puzzles during this hunt, which was a shame because there were some good ones. 5. Sweeter than all sweet things, more auspicious than all good things, purer than all pure things, is the Name of the Lord. You may even find that you are more sensitive to the effects of coffee for several days in a row, which can really help you get started in the morning. Need I say more? OM is the primordial sound; namah is an expression of reverence or honor; shivaya denotes "to Shiva" or "to divine Consciousness" (the Lord who dwells within you as you). The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit word yuj, meaning "to yoke." Therefore, we use yoga asana as a vehicle through which to yoke, or join, the body with the mind as a path to enlightenment. Pull it across your body and remember to keep your chest broad and your shoulders pressing down here. A back exercise: Try lying on a flat, solid surface (aka the floor.) Put down a yoga mat or something similar if you like.