The Antervasana audio story is a sonic masterpiece, featuring:
| Source | Title / Teacher | Why It’s Best | |--------|----------------|----------------| | (free app) | "Antarvasana: The Inner Dwelling" by Katherine Z. | High production quality, soothing voice, combines pose instruction with a gentle story about returning home to the body. | | Spotify / YouTube | "Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest" by Ally Boothroyd | Not pose-specific but includes Antarvasana-like posture; narrative is immersive, dreamy, and widely rated 5 stars. | | Yoga Journal Audio | "Reclined Bound Angle Story" by Jason Crandell | Uses the pose as a base for a woodland journey story; excellent for sleep or relaxation. | antervasana audio story best
: Many apps provide age ratings or "Explicit" tags to help you navigate content that fits your preference. Privacy Settings The Antervasana audio story is a sonic masterpiece,
: Known for its vast library of historical audiobooks, biographies, and fiction. You can find popular series that cater to specific cultural and regional interests on Pratilipi FM | | Yoga Journal Audio | "Reclined Bound
Furthermore, the narrative structure of Antervasana leverages the temporal fluidity of audio to explore trauma and healing. Visual stories often rely on linear, action-driven plots. Audio, by contrast, can seamlessly blend the present with the remembered past through layered soundscapes. In one poignant segment, the protagonist’s current physical posture (holding a difficult asana) is overlaid with fragmented audio flashbacks: a door slamming, a sharp word, the sound of falling rain from a childhood bedroom. The present tense of the strained muscle and the past tense of the emotional wound occupy the same sonic plane. This is not a gimmick but a profound narrative choice. It suggests that the body remembers what the mind tries to forget. The difficulty of the antervasana (the inner posture) becomes a metaphor for the daily, often invisible labor of holding oneself together while processing old grief. The audio format, devoid of visual distractions, allows these layers to merge into a coherent emotional chord rather than a confusing collage.
Because it requires minimal physical movement, the mind often rebels. Within 60 seconds of lying still, the "Monkey Mind" jumps to grocery lists, work emails, or existential dread. This is where the audio story becomes not just helpful, but essential.
The combination of Ubuntu, IntelliJ, Maven, Jetty and JRebel enables really quick web app development in Java.
Ubuntu. Feel handicapped when forced to use dumbdowned Windows at work.
Maven. A build system with flaws but still better than most, and especially important as it is used by most projects.
IntelliJ IDEA. An IDE with many ingenious little tricks to make development speedier and feels very comfortable to use. At work my IDE is often either Eclipse on some projects as it often is the company standard, or NetBeans when work refuse to buy IntelliJ licenses. But with some clients and at home with my FOSS license I am much more productive with IntelliJ.
Jetty. A standalone java web application server. It is quick and very light. The Maven plugin for it makes it easy to bundle and launch locally. It also then allows for very swift development cycles.
JRebel. JRebel (Née JavaRebel) reloads java classes dynamically and allows even swifter development cycles, by negating the need to ever redeploy. This saves a lot of time, thus money, and improves quality with quicker feedback loops.
And I need these tools to work together seamlessly.
I will assume you have a normal version of Ubuntu Desktop installed. This guide was based upon Ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx.
A normal java based webapp project buildt with maven that are using the jetty plugin is assumed to be checked out on your machine. If you do not have one set up, you can read up on java, maven & jetty and clone an example app of mine.
sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk
In case of other Java JDK are installed, choose Sun's flavour
sudo update-alternatives --config java
sudo update-alternatives --config javac
Environment variables
sudo vi /etc/profile.d/java.sh
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
export JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/java.sh
Your choice: either install via Ubuntu package repository or download the full Maven directly. The repository version depends on a load of unneccesary packages such as gjc, Ant etc. So most people recommend using the apache.org dowload instead.
For this howto I will utilise the repository version, but the only difference afterwards is the path. (You may try and restrict the installation of optional packages...)
sudo aptitude install maven2
If you prefer the downloaded archive then do this instead:
tar xzf apache-maven-2.2.1.tar.gz;
sudo mkdir /opt/apache;
sudo mv apache-maven-2.2.1 /opt/apache/maven-2.2.1;
cd /opt/apache;
sudo ln -s maven-2.2.1 maven;
And refer to /opt/apache/maven instead of /usr/share/maven2 in the paths below.
Some programs depend on different environment variables for Maven.
Also the default memory assignment is very low so you may optionally add it.
sudo vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
export MAVEN_HOME=/usr/share/maven2
export M2_HOME=/usr/share/maven2
#export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
#export MAVEN_OPTS=-noverify -javaagent:$JREBEL_HOME/jrebel.jar
sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
Depending on your project you may need to configure the default maven settings,
such as any mirrors you use, passwords, other repositories, profiles etc.
But that is out of scope of this document.
mkdir ~/.m2;
vi ~/.m2/settings.xml
Because of maven dependency characteristics it is wise to do an initial a simple clean & build of your application do download all the dependencies, and the special go-offline goal. Remember to include any potential profiles if they have dependencies. ( -P profile1,profile2....)
This may take a while.... But you only have to do it once (ish..)
cd /path/to/your/project,
mvn clean;
# Wait a little while....
mvn dependency:go-offline;
# Wait a long while....
mvn install;
# Wait a longer while....
mvn jetty:run;
# Wait a longish while....
When ready kill Jetty with ^C (As in ctrl+c)
Remember from now on you should mostly do append -o parameter (offline) to speed up builds.
You need to obtain a license to run JRebel.
You can use the trial version for 30 days. (Its worth it)
Note: ZeroTurnaround do offer free licenses for open source developers.
Download the generic JAR installer
cd /tmp;
unzip ~/Downloads/jrebel-*-setup.zip;
sudo -jar jrebel/jrebel-setup.zip
I tend to choose /opt/ZeroTurnaround/JRebel as my install path, but the default it /usr/local/ZeroTurnaround/Jrebel.
If the installer doesn't trigger the configuration, or you want to reconfigure:
sudo /opt/ZeroTurnaround/JRebel/bin/jrebel-config.sh
sudo vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
And then uncomment or add the MAVEN_OPTS line:
export MAVEN_OPTS="-noverify -javaagent:/opt/ZeroTurnaround/JRebel/jrebel.jar $MAVEN_OPTS"
sudo mkdir /var/log/jrebel;
sudo chown jrebel:jrebel /var/log/jrebel
sudo vi /etc/profile.d/jrebel.sh
export JREBEL_HOME=/opt/ZeroTurnaround/JRebel
sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/jrebel.sh
Decide which version you want. I will assume a trial of the ultimate edition.
Note: JetBrains do offer free licenses for IntelliJ Ultimate for open source developers.
Go to JetBrains IntelliJ download page, and download the most recent version.
Like JRebel I prefer /opt/jetbrains as my install location. You may prefer directly in /opt or in /usr/local, etc.
cd /tmp;
tar xzf ~/Downloads/ideaIU-10.0.1.tar.gz;
sudo chown -R root:root idea-IU-99.32;
sudo mkdir /opt/jetbrains;
sudo mv idea-IU-99.32 /opt/jetbrains/;
sudo cd /opt/jetbrains;
sudo ln -s idea--IU-99.32 idea;
On first launch IntelliJ will ask you a series of questions regarding plugins etc.
Choose maven plugin amongst others.
Open settings via File/Settings/maven and enter Maven home directory as /usr/share/maven2
IntelliJ does not support Compile-on-save / Auto-build.
This feature is essential to get the best time saving from using JRebel.
So you will have to manually enter ctrl++shift+F9 to compile your file, or just ctrl+F9 to build your whole project.
A decent work around is to map ctrl+s as the build command.
Another is to install a plugin called Eclipse Mode, which auto build like eclipse.
(I have not been able to get this to work as expected)