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Hatha Yoga – An Ancient Program of Balance, Harmony and Purification
Basic Tenets of Hatha Yoga Program.
The basic tenets of the Hatha Yoga Program is comprised of several aspects:
1. Asana which focuses on posture similar to the postures of T’ai Chi and Chi Gong.
2. Prayanamas where subtle energy control is the focus, a very important aspect of Hatha Yoga.
3. Chakras which are the centers of energy.
4. Kundalini which encompasses muscle force4
5. Kryas which promotes the mastering of kundalini techniques.
6. Shakti, the sacred force.
7. Nadis which are channels. Read the rest of this entry »
Learn yoga basics
For you to find out what yoga are you should cognise first what the actual substance of yoga is. So what is Yoga? Yoga is introduce for more that 3,000 years and started from the land of India. The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit word “yuj” which has in mind to bind, join attach and yoke. This also stands for “union, to aim and focus one’s attention on, to use and apply.”
Put differently, yoga is about centering on your mind and body to stick you to God. It’s about training yourself to balance your mind, psyche, and emotions, so that you are able to get in touch with your individual spirit or your “jivatma”, which is in turn part of the Supreme Universal Spirit or the “Paramatma,” also known as God. It’s about focussing your energy into positive channels. And the name of an someone who sticks with the teachings of yoga is called a “yogi”. Read the rest of this entry »
Practicing the different yoga asanas
Yoga has been prevalent nowadays. So many people are engaged in it. Most of them say that there are many benefits that can be gained from the practice of Yoga. Flexibility is one of the so many advantages acquired in practicing Yoga. With the so many positions, a person may enhance his or her own physical well-being. Some say that it acts as a cleansing exercise which lessens the pain and offers a degree of relief from certain disorders. While some others say that it is an extremely effective form of exercise.
By the various yoga asanas or positions, one can establish and experience an amazing improvement in the flexibility of some parts of the joints, tendons, and ligaments. In addition, some researchers have found that various yoga positions can carry out certain processes together creating harmony. When this harmony is attained, developed flexibility is achieved. Read the rest of this entry »
Hatha Yoga
Hatha yoga is an ancient hindu system of working with the human nervous system. Because it releases tension and endows one with renewed energy, far too many 20th century people, yoga teachers included, have come to look upon the venerable Indian physical science as solely an exercise for health and vitality of mind and body. It is that, but it is also much more. Hatha yoga practices are more spiritual than physical, more subtle than gross, more a means of understanding than an exotic way to relieve stress or limber up the body.
The sages who developed hatha yoga designed it as a way to gain conscious control of our life energies, a way to go within, to harmonize the external so the innermost Self could be encountered. To them, it was about states of consciousness, about living a divine life, and it was a preparation for meditation. Read the rest of this entry »