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The Science of Body Postures 2007-04-15 17:28:00 ASANAAll forms of yoga use Asana as a part of their practice, even if the Asana is as simple as sitting in a comfortable meditative posture. One of the main reasons why Kundalini Yoga works so fast and effectively is its use of angles in its Asanas; this is one of the "secrets" of its success. Lifting the legs to different heights creates pressure on specific glands and organs depending upon the angle of the lift.Pressuring the glands causes them to secrete. When the pressure is released and the body is held motionless, the glandular secretions that have been stimulated have an opportunity to circulate freely throughout the body. The result is a balanced glandular system which has a definite effect on your emotional stability through the chemistry of your body.The key idea within an Asana is that all parts of the body are well-balanced, comfortable and aligned. In certain deep meditations your consciousness may alter to the degree that you temporarily lose normal body awareness.In that Read more:Science
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Questions and Answers of Kundalini 2007-04-13 06:58:00 Question :I have a friend who is a psychotherapist. He teaches Hatha Yoga as part of his therapy. He told me that Kundalini Yoga is an extremely dangerous form of yoga and that it can lead to insanity if not handled right. Is this trust? It is very unfortunate some people talk that way … many of them have not had any real experience of it. The truth is that Kundalini Yoga produces whole human beings, teachers and yogis. A yogi is one who has a union with the supreme consciousness. To teach yoga you must have sufficient experience and practical knowledge of the technolgy. There is never a problem with Kundalini Yoga taught as the original sacred science.Question :He doesn’t consider himself an expert yogi. He just mentioned that he heard that Kundalini Yoga is a very dangerous type of yoga. Could you explain a little more?Ask him why he’s practicing all the Hatha Yoga postures. What is the purpose of HathaYoga? The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to raise the awareness. It is a technolog
Kundalini Yoga 2007-04-12 11:07:00 Kundalini Yoga is the original and most powerful of the twenty-two schools of yoga, all of which are beneficial. The Yoga Sutras (writings) say that what you can achieve in 12 years of Hatha Yoga, plus 6 years of Raj Yoga, plus 3 years of Mantra Yoga, plus 1 year of Laya Yoga can be accomplished in a single year of perfectly practiced Kundalini Yoga.Kundalini Yoga is designed for the active person with responsibilities in school, work, family and the world. It was maintained as a secret oral tradition for thousands of years which protected the techniques from abuse, but also created an unnecessary image of mystery. Kundalini Yoga can be practiced by anyone if it is done gradually and according to the instructions.As our society becomes increasingly technological, our world becomes more intimatelyconnected and influenced by its numerous cultures. The pace of change is on the rise and the stress on our body’s nervous system is increasing. The science of Kundalini Yoga allows us to tap
Yoga Is Union 2007-04-12 09:07:00 Without self-knowledge, we cannot go beyond themind.—Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe proliferation of yoga classes and yoga centers throughout the Western world is a tribute to yoga’s indisputable power to enliven physical well-being. In cities across North America, Europe, and Australia, yoga studios offer students a vast range of styles and techniques designed to enhance fitness.Yoga postures can increase your flexibility, strengthen your muscles, improve your posture, and enhance your circulation. Athletic programs from gymnastics to football now incorporate yoga for its systematic approach to stretching muscles, tendons, and joints. Fitness enthusiasts are often pleasantly surprised by how quickly the addition of yoga postures to a workout routine can improve tone and posture.If the practice of yoga provided only these physical benefits, it would fully justify its place in our lives. However, at its core, yoga is much more than a system of physical fitness. It is a science of balanced li Read more:Union
Spiritual Laws in Action of Yoga 2007-04-11 09:58:00 The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga program will raise your level of physical vitality, clear emotional blockages from your heart, and awaken your joyfulness and enthusiasmfor life. Since its release in 1994, Deepak’s book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success has improved the lives of millions of readers around the world. Through seven easily understood principles, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success pro-claims that harmony, happiness, and abundance are available to anyone willing to embrace a consciousnessbased approach to life. Our yoga program brings the seven laws into action through the principles and techniques of a consciousness-based practice.We celebrate the rising popularity of yoga in the Western world. Even if your primary motivation for taking a yoga class is to lose weight or to develop a more muscular body, you cannot escape the subtler benefits of enhanced vitality and a noticeable reduction in your stress level. Yoga is a practical system to awaken human potential. It do Read more:Action
The Hatha Yoga Pradipika 2007-04-11 04:21:00 The Pradipika is divided into four parts. The first explains yamas (restraints on behaviour), niyamas (observances), asanas (posture) and food. The second describes pranayama (control or restraint of energy), and the shatkarmas (internal cleansing practices). The third deals with mudras (seals), bandhas (locks), the nadis (channels of energy through which prana flows) and the kundalini power. The fourth expounds pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), and samadhi (absorption).In all, the text contains 390 verses (floras). Out of these, about forty deal with asanas, approximately one hundred and ten with pranayama, one hundred and fifty with mudras, bandhas and Shatkarmas and the rest with pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi.AsanasThe text begins with asanas as the first step in hatha yoga. For this reason it has been referred to as six−limbed yoga (sadanga yoga) as opposed to the eight−limbed patanjala yoga (astanga yoga) which inclu
Hatha Yoga or Hatha Vidya 2007-03-21 03:11:00 Hatha means to stick fast, to be devoted and to hold closely or firmly. Yoga means to unite, to associate, to yoke and to join. It also means zeal, endeavour, fixing the mind on one point, holding the body in a steady posture, contemplation and meditation. Vidya
means knowledge, art and science.The Goddess Parvati, the wife of Lord Siva, approached her Lord−− the seed of all knowledge−−for guidance to ease the suffering of humanity. Lord Siva revealed to her the greatest of all sciences for the holistic development of man−−the science of hatha yoga.On receiving yogic knowledge from Siva, Parvati imparted it to Brahma, who taught it to his children born of his own will, the sages such as Narada, Sanaka and Sanatkumara, who passed it on to Vasista and others. Hatha vidya was set down in the Hatha yoga pradipika by YogiSvatmarama who, it is thought, lived between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. The Pradipika has thus been referred to as a nebrively recent addition to the
Hatha yoga pradipika of Svatmarama 2007-03-13 12:42:00 The Hatha yoga pradipika of Svatmarama is one of the most important yoga texts, and Hans−Ulrich Rieker's translation and commentary have long been valuable to yoga students as a complement to their practice and study.Hatha yoga, or hatha vidya (the science of hatha yoga) is commonly misunderstood and misrepresented as being simply a physical culture, divorced from spiritual goals. Hans−Ulrich Rieker shows the error of this idea by explaining the changes which take place, through the practice of hatha yoga, in the practitioner's body, mind and self. He makes the reader aware of the subjective transformation that occurs as the consciousness penetrates inwards towards the Self, and as the Self diffuses outwards. He shows that hatha yoga is not just physical exercise, but an integrated science leading towards spiritual evolution.We are caught up in emotions like lust (kama), anger (krodha), greed (lobha), infatuation (moha), pride (ynadha) and malice (matsarya). Hatha yoga helps us t
Five Hatha Yoga Important Underlying Concepts 2007-03-10 13:52:00 Five hatha yoga concept :1. MindMan is known as manava (human), as he is descended from Manu, the father of mankind who is said to be the son of Brahma, the Creator of the world. The word mana or manas (mind) comes from the root man, meaning to think. Man is one who possesses a mind.Manas means mind, intellect, thought, design, purpose and will. It is the internal organiser of the senses of perception and the organs of action, and the external organiser of intelligence, consciousness and the Self. Man is graced with this special sense so that he can en)oy the pleasures of the world, or seekemancipation and freedom(moksa) from worldly objects.2. KnowledgeKnowledge means acquaintance with facts, truth or principles by study or investigation. The mind, which is endowed with the faculty of discrimination, desires the achievement of certain aims in life.Knowledge (jnana) is of two types: laukilfa jnana, which concerns matters of the world, and vaidika jnana, the knowledge of the Self (rela Read more:Concepts
The Science of the Hands 2007-04-23 10:22:00 MUDRAThe hand is magical as well as functional. Early in life we use our hands in our first exploration of the world as we learn to manipulate it and create in it. The yogis mapped out the hand areas and their associated parts of the body. Each area of the hand reflexes to a certain area of the body or brain. Each area also represents different emotions or behaviors. By curling, crossing, stretching and touching fingers to other fingers and areas we can effectively talk to the body and mind. The hands become a keyboard for input to our mind/body computer. Each of the six Mudras listed below is an example of this technique of giving clear messages to the mind/body energy system.Gyan MudraMudra : Place the tip of the thumb together with the tip of the index finger.Stimulates: Knowledge and ability.Planet : Jupiter – representing expansion.Shuni MudraMudra : Place the tip of the middle finger on the tip of the thumb.Stimulates: Patience and discernment.Planet : Saturn – Read more:Science
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The Science of Muscle Contraction 2007-04-23 10:12:00 BHANDAThere are certain combinations of muscle contractions that are called Bhandas or Locks. Each Lock has a function of changing blood circulation, nerve pressure and the flow of cerebral spinal fluid. They also direct the flow of psychic energy and prana into the main energy channels that relate to raising Kundalini energy. The Bhandas also concentrate the body’s energy for use in consciousness and self-healing.Jalandhara BhandaThe most basic Bhanda is Jalandhara Bhanda, the Neck Lock. This Lock is practiced by contracting back on the neck and throat. The chin rests in or near the notch between the collar bones at the top of the breast bone. The head stays level without tilting forward. The spine in the neck straightens to allow the increased flow of pranic energy to travel freely into the upper glandular centers of the brain. This is critical. In the Kundalini Yoga Kriyas, a vast energy is generated that produces psychic heat which opens the pranic Nadis (channels) that may be bl Read more:Science
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Practice of Yoga 2007-05-07 12:26:00 So is it in the application of the laws of psychology that we call Yoga. Systematized knowledge of the unfolding of consciousness applied to the individualized Self, that is Yoga. As I have just said, it is by the world that consciousness has been unfolded, and the world is admirably planned by the LOGOS for this unfolding of consciousness; hence the would-be yogi, choosing out his objects and applying his laws, finds in the world exactly the things he wants to make his practice of Yoga real, a vital thing, a quickening process for the knowledge of the Self. There are many laws. You can choose those which you require, you can evade those you do not require, you can utilize those you need, and thus you can bring about the result that nature, without that application of human intelligence, cannot so swiftly effect.Take it, then, that Yoga is within your reach, with your powers, and that even some of the lower practices of Yoga, some of the simpler applications of the laws of the unfoldin Read more:Practice
Yoga Is a Science 2007-05-07 12:18:00 Next, Yoga is a science. That is the second thing to grasp. Yoga is a science, and not a vague, dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.You know, by looking at the world around you, how enormously the intelligence of man, co-operating with nature, may quicken "natural" processes, and the working of intelligence is as "natural" as anything else. We make this distinction, and practically it is a real one, between "rational" and "natural" growth, because human intelligence canguide the working of natural laws; and when we come to deal with Yoga, we are Read more:Science
Bhakti yoga is those perfect solution for all problems 2007-06-20 12:15:00 Who understands and tries to answer the love of God - in accordance with its Fähgikeiten - again began, to implement Bhakti yoga.That is probably simple now to guess. God is the perfectly social nature. If we separate from it, we become not only its competitors, but also competitors of all other organisms, our brothers and sisters. That is the root of all material problems
… Bhakti yoga this problem at the root eliminates. Other Yoga procedures do not do that. They use only the asozialen inclinations of the organisms to love in order to bring it more near to the realization that the perfection of the life consists of it, to God. At this time these procedures have then retired and given up…Bhakti yoga only is able to repair our lost dear relationship with the highest personality of God. Love cannot be aroused by mechanical Yoga procedures. The material Yoga practices, like Karma, Jnana and Ashtanga, are dependent all of Bhakti yoga, whereas Bhakti yoga due to his purely mirror-image
Bhakti Yoga 2007-06-20 12:01:00 Bhakti yoga, the perfection of the Yoga!In the sixth chapter Bhagavad gita this is confirmed:"And of all Yogis that, which possesses large faith and always in me stays, always of me thinks and me transzendentalen affectionate service brings, is most closely united with me in Yoga, and it is the highest of all. That is my opinion."The whole teachings Bhagavad gita ring outside to announce Bhakti yoga as the ultimative Yoga procedure and with good reasonNot the implementing of....Karma yogaJnana yogaDhyana yogais the perfect Yogi. The perfect Yogi is rather that, which implements devoted service, Bhakti yoga. That is nevertheless the opinion of the highest personality of God. And if it does not know it, who is to then know it…Technorati tag : yoga bhakti yoga
Yoga blows up the borders in you 2007-06-20 11:58:00 The comprehensive science of the Yoga offers the possibility of solving all problems of the life at the root. As one the sheets, branches, branches, blooms and the trunk of a tree completely simply with water supplied, if one waters the root, then dissolve indeed all difficulties, which we experience at present, in nothing, if we remove their root…In this sense Yoga is not exhausted in gymnastic and breath exercises, still in stimulation and harmonization of our Chakren or our spirit.The work on our finer bodies, which are the basis for the physical body, is surely very important. It misses however its goal, if it does not help us to attain the true fruit of all Yoga procedures which is in more detail explained in the following text.Technorati tag : cocaine
Find out about meditation 2007-06-20 11:34:00 Meditation is a technique, or practice that usually involves focus on an object, perhaps a candle, a sound or your breath. If you are having trouble with focus or concentration?As you meditate the number of random thoughts occurring diminishes, as does your attachment to these thoughts, and your identification with them. This is because you are usually not aware of all the mental activity that you are engaged in.Meditation allows your mind activity to settle down and results in you becoming more peaceful, calm and focused. Meditation is great for stress management. Remember stress occurs in your mind, that doesn't make it less real. It means your mind is the key to remove stress from your life. You will experience, relaxation, increased awareness, mental focus, clarity and a sense of peace if meditation is practiced regularly. The following physiological effects of meditation have been documented :Reduced blood pressureLower pulse rateDecreased metabolic rateChanges in the concentrat
Keep the Flame of Yoga Burning 2007-07-21 10:39:00 Hatha yoga is the combination of ham and tham, representing the masculine and feminine aspects of our existence, and also the physical and mental force. The ultimate aim of Hatha yoga is the union of Shiva and Shakti or the awakening of the kundalini , the hidden potential within us. There are many ways of doing Hatha yoga. Its practice begins with the purification of the physical body, the carrier of energy and the meridians or nadis. Once this is achieved, the body becomes ready to carry the kundalini shakti. There are three aspects to body purification: neti or cleaning the nostrils and sinus cavities, dhauti or cleaning the stomach and basti or cleaning the small and large intestines. Besides, some asanas and pranayamas are practised to make the body toxin-free. Tratak is practised to make the mind focused. In the beginning itself the practitioner feels its effect. But in the long run it brings about a personality change. Neti, basti and dhauti involve cleansing with water, and the Read more:Burning
Walking Meditation 2007-08-07 12:21:00 Walking meditation is a type of dynamic or active meditation, which means meditation in action. Walking meditation is a type of meditation exercise where the meditators slowly walk a set path and observe the entire act of walking with complete awareness of the whole body and each step taken along with maintaining a link with breathing. It is recommended to choose a fixed walking path that can be circular or quadrangular so that meditators do not have to worry about where they are going and can give complete attention to on the act of walking.The focus in walking meditation is to become aware and mindful of the entire experience of walking. The several different types of walking meditations are based on the way in which walking meditators meditate.The most popular and effective walking meditation is where meditators watch all their movements frame by frame and as closely as a camera would capture them. Another way of carrying out a walking meditation is to practice it as a variation of Read more:Walking
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Yoga Breathing For Better Health 2007-08-19 09:54:00 The respiratory system is an amazing process by which the body takes air from the environment into the body to feed the blood and cells with oxygen, and then expels air containing carbon dioxide and toxins back out into the atmosphere.This process is called gaseous exchange. This takes place in the lungs. The complete process involves the nasal passages, the pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, lungs and muscles; diaphragm, external and internal intercostals, transverse abdominal, scaleni and sternomastoids. The physiology:Inhalation: The diaphragm contracts and flattens; this reduces the pressure in the chest cavity thus increasing the volume of the lungs. Air is drawn in to equalise the pressure. Inhalation comes as a natural result of a full exhalation. Exhalation: The diaphragm relaxes and rises, the pressure in the chest cavity reduces and the air is forced from the lungs. n yoga, the breath is the vital link between the mind and the body. Basic breathing does not contain ratios or Read more:Health
Yoga and Osteoporosis 2007-08-18 10:10:00 Yawn and StretchYoga is the living art of reconciling extremes. The optimum benefits of yoga are realized only when the union that is yoga is naturally sustained - when it is lived.This living art is a way of being that self-corrects (re-union) when things are out of harmony. In this way the union is real and health and harmony are qualitatively and quantitatively enhanced.When you explore the postures of Hatha Yoga, do you yawn and stretch naturally or is your practice imposed by the mental understanding that you have Osteoporosis, that you have to have proper alignment, correct breathing, and all the things that well intentioned folks tell you that you should do to receive optimum benefits?Do you approach yoga through a fixed mental picture or as a living process that attends to the harmony of you mind and body?The paradox of Yoga is that it is necessary to have this mental understanding and yet if your understanding is limited to only the mental realm, then the practice of yoga can
Discover Yoga's Healing Power 2007-08-17 09:46:00 There are several medical conditions that can be improved by practicing yoga. It can be used to lessen the negative effects of infertility, lung disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, insomnia, cancer, high blood pressure, and joint pain. The beneficial effects of yoga practices are well recognized not only by the yoga community but also by medical doctors. One of the main elements that lead to an illness is stress. Being responsible for a huge number of sicknesses, this item, which we develop in our minds, can be reduced through a good usage of yoga techniques.Here are just some of the problems that are related to an over active stress response: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, some types of diabetes mellitus, cardio-vascular disease, several autoimmune diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, reproductive problems, and an aggravated suppression of the immune system.The response of the sympathetic nervous system can trigger stress in our metabolism. Read more:Discover
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The Benefit Of Yoga 2007-08-13 10:01:00 The benefit of yoga practice goes far beyond the actual time you spend in the poses. One of the most common reasons why people begin practicing yoga is to improve their health and well-being. Yoga means union. It is a union of the mind, body and breath, so all aspects of your life are impacted by your practice.A major benefit of yoga is physical. Yoga improves your flexibility. – The stretching that you engage in during every practice helps lengthen and stretch muscles, which helps reduce the risk of injuries.It helps to improve your balance. – The majority of yoga practices include some type of balancing in the poses. A significant number of people, especially as they began to get older, start to have problems with balance, which can lead to major injuries due to falls. By having a greater sense of balance, you are able to move more easily and safely.Yoga can help reduce pain. - Tense muscles often contribute to pain. Relaxing muscles helps to minimize muscle tension and the pain
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