Transforming self by better Understanding of Yama and Niyama(Best yoga teacher training course in India)
Transforming self by better Understanding of Yama and Niyama Patanjali’s Astanga Yoga(eight limbs of yoga) Despite the fact there is a pronounced tendency towards world negation in Classical Yoga, the yogic path advocated by patanjali is not devoid of all social values. Under the heading of yama or ‘restraint’ are subsumed five ethical rules which […]
Cultivating Awareness by Asana or Posture
Cultivating Awareness by Asana or Posture The first two members of the eightfold path, yama and niyama, strictly regulate the yogi social contacts and his personal life. This is intended to reduce the production of unwholesome volition which would only increase his stock of karma involving him further in conditioned existence. His sole goal is […]
Beginner’s Guide to Pranayama: The control of the life-force
Beginner’s Guide to Pranayama: The control of the life-force The asana, when practised successfully, affects a marked internalization of consciousness. Therefore it is said to make the yogi insensitive to the impact of the ‘pairs of opposites’ (dvandva) such as heat and cold, light and darkness, quiet or noise, etc. The next step consists […]
How to control your mind: Pratyahara or Sense – withdrawal
How to control your mind: Pratyahara or Sense – withdrawal Both ‘posture’ and the ‘control of the life –force’ lead to a progressive desensitization to external stimuli. When the mind has become completely sealed off from the objective environment, the condition of perfect sense – withdrawal or pratyahara occurs. The Sanskrit texts compare this process […]
How to Focus on single object: Dharana or Concentration
How to Focus on single object: Dharana or Concentration As a direct continuation of the process of withdrawal from external reality, concentration is the ‘holding of the mind in a motionless state’, as the Trisikhi – Brahmana – Upanisad (3I) defines this advanced practice. Concentration means the focusing of one’s total attention to a given […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Practice, Meditation, and the Patanjali Yoga Sutras
A Beginner’s Guide to Practice, Meditation, and the Patanjali Yoga Sutras Prolonged and depending concentration leads to the state of meditative absorption of dhyana in which the object held in he mind fills the entire consciousness ‘space’. All arising ideas (pratyaya) gyrate round the object of concentration and are accompanied by an emotive disposition which […]
Growing Into All Eight Limbs of Yoga: Patanjali’s Astanga Yoga
Despite the fact there is a pronounced tendency towards world negation in Classical Yoga, the yogic path advocated by patanjali is not devoid of all social values. Under the heading of yama or ‘restraint’ are subsumed five ethical rules which can be considered the fundamental property of all major religious. #Best yoga teacher training certification […]
The path of Royal Yoga: Raja Yoga
The path of Royal Yoga: Raja Yoga Let us understand royal path of Yoga The term raja-yoga means ‘royal Yoga’ and is most commonly used in distinction to hatha-yoga, the ‘yoga of force’. The latter has become very popular in the West though unfortunately, very often in regrettably distorted and bizarre from. #Yoga, Anatomy, Physiology, […]