Author: Lillian Suamibinith
The experience of Yoga is an interrelatedness of all life and of all things. It is a direct experience learning. It is about control of one's mind and its modifications. Yoga is a discipline connected in an intimately way to the religious beliefs and practices of the Indian religions.
What Yoga is not.
Yoga is not running away from home and human habitation, but a process of moulding one's attitude to home and society with a new understanding. It is not a turning away from life; it is spiritualization of life.
Although Yoga is not a religion, it aids to the practice of the basic spiritual truths in all religions. You can not experience Yoga by taking lysergic acid or mescalin or peyote (of Mexican origin) or divine mushrooms. Although Yoga is not a medical practice, it has been shown to be very helpful in many ways, so, Yoga is not just physical fitness training.
Meditation and Yoga
Besides the practice of Yoga's poses, a typical Yoga class can also include instruction on breathing, call and response chanting, meditation, or even an inspirational reading by the teacher. Here we can introduce the term of "power yoga" to differentiate the intense, flowing style of yoga they were teaching from the gentle stretching and meditation that many American people has largely associated with yoga. However, power yoga will mostly appeal to people who are already quite fit, enjoy exercising, and want a minimal amount of chanting and meditation with their yoga.
Yoga practice
Yoga practice can include the use of meditation, reflection, study and other classic elements, but the emphasis of the Yoga practice is on coordinating breath and movement. What is commonly referred to as "yoga" can be more accurately described by the Sanskrit word "asana", which refers to the practice of physical postures or poses.
Practice asanas that draw your attention inward; forward bends and restorative poses. Outside India, Yoga is mostly associated with the practice of asanas (postures) of Hatha Yoga or as a form of exercise, although it has influenced the entire Indian religions family and other spiritual practices throughout the world.
Now, not all that has been put across as Yoga is really Yoga. There are many heartening signs that this Yoga is being considered by many seekers in the West to be the most suitable method for the solution of the perplexing problems of their civilisation.
Eventually Yoga will become into an all day long practice. Yoga is very effective in alleviating certain types of medical conditions, but these are secondary benefits. The physical foundation of yoga is a series of structured poses (asanas) performed with breath awareness. Yoga is a complete practice that joins back mind, body and spirit. Decide if yoga is right for you.
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