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Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
David Frawley (Yoga for your Type: An Ayurvedic Approach to Your Asana Practice)
Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well keep it stronger.
Ana Claudia Antunes (The Tao of Physical and Spiritual)
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature.
B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on Life)
Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each asana vibrates at a specific frequency. When asanas are performed in sequence, beautiful phrases or sutras result, producing a mystical language.
Sharon Gannon (The Art of Yoga)
You need to experience this to really know what Yin Yoga is all about. After you have experienced it, even just once, you will realize that you have been doing only half of the asana practice.
Bernie Clark (YinSights: A Journey into the Philosophy and Practice of Yin Yoga: A Journey Into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga)
An asana, or yoga pose, is a container for an experience. An asana is not an exercise for strengthening or stretching a particular muscle or muscle group, although it might have that effect.
Leslie Kaminoff (Yoga Anatomy)
Asana has two facets, pose and repose. Pose is the artistic assumption of a position. ‘Reposing in the pose’ means finding the perfection of a pose and maintaining it, reflecting in it with penetration of the intelligence and with dedication.
B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali)
The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain higher states are reached. Therefore it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen.
Vivekananda (Raja Yoga)
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom (Iyengar Yoga Books))
Yoga is a dance of dealing with what is, and allowing yourself to fully experience whatever you’re experiencing right here, in the moment. In life, we so often resist what we don’t like or don’t want to do. Here, on your mat, is a safe opportunity to see what’s on the other side of that. Physical asana is a measure of some higher possibility. Put your attention on what you want to have happen and be for it, and watch the magic unfold.
Baron Baptiste (Perfectly Imperfect: The Art and Soul of Yoga Practice)
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving the body 'uncontrolled' is spoken of, what is meant is simply allowing the body to remain in an authentic, uncorrected condition, in which it is not necessary to modify or improve anything. This is because, since all our attempts at correcting the body come from the reasoning mind, they are all false and artificial.
Namkhai Norbu (Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State)
The mind & body are not separate entities. The gross form of the mind is the body & the subtle form of the body is the mind. The practice of asana integrates & harmonizes the two. Both the body & the mind harbor tensions or knots. Every mental knot has a corresponding physical, muscular knot & vice versa. The aim of asana is to release these knots. Asana release mental tensions by dealing with them on the physical level, acting somato-psychically, through the body to the mind.
Satyananda Saraswati (Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha)
However beautifully we carry out an asana, however flexible our body may be, if we do not achieve the integration of body, breath, and mind we cannot claim that what we are doing is yoga.
T.K.V. Desikachar
The worst part of being a driver is that you have hours to yourself while waiting for your employer. You can spend this time chitchatting and scratching your groin. You can read murder and rape magazines. You can develop the chauffeur's habit it's a kind of yoga, really of putting a finger in your nose and letting your mind go blank for hours (they should call it the "bored driver's asana").
Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger)
Yoga is for everyone. You need not be an expert or at the peak of physical fitness to practice the asanas described...Yoga helps to integrate the mental and the physical plane, bringing about a sense of inner and outer balance, or what I term alignment. True alignment means that the inner mind reaches every cell and fiber of the body.
B.K.S. Iyengar
1212Forget what they told you. You are love child of a passionate affair between goddess and universe. You were born of a steamy forbidden heat and you were made for the cyclone of unadulterated wholeness. You are a daughter of delight. You are the unconstrained mother of all. A fierce warrior. A wicked priestess. Your roots twist into this earth. Your spirit rises in glorious asana. You let loose with the howl of the wilderness you’ve held tight all these years. You are the wild. Untethered. Gloriously free.
Jeanette LeBlanc
For many years before I met Maharajji I was searching, going here and there, studying this and that. I began following strict yogic codes—brahmacharya, 3:00 A.M. risings, cold baths, asanas, and dhyan. It was during a period when I had given up coffee and tea that I met Maharajji. Tea was being offered to all of us, and I didn’t know what to do. I said nothing but did not accept a cup of tea, and Maharajji leaned over to me, saying, “Won’t you take tea? Take tea! You should drink the tea. It’s good for you in this weather! Take tea!” So I drank the tea. With that one cup of tea, all those strict disciplines and schedules were washed away! They seemed meaningless and unnecessary; the true work seemed beyond these things. Now I do whatever comes of itself.
Ram Dass (Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba)
Brahma Yoga prepares me to know that I do not need the validation of others to be complete
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
You can only live once as you in this lifetime. If you live fully, once is enough
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Stability-The Physical Body (Asana)
B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom)
Extend the energy of the asana out through your extremities. Let the river flow through you.
B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on Life)
Be inspired, but be nonattached as you acknowledge the impermanence of everything and the beauty of that simple truth
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I can unleash my subconscious primal wildness to unravel any negative conditioning.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Asana, with its soothing, stretching and relaxing action, is the main physical exercise for balancing the doshas. It calms Vata, cools Pitta and releases Kapha.
David Frawley (Yoga For Your Type: An Ayurvedic Approach to Your Asana Practice)
Some of the events described in this book may well offend the reader's sensitivities. Part of this was Vimalananda's intention. He wanted Western holier-than-thou renunciates to know that "filth and orgies in the graveyard" (as one American once described Aghori) can be as conducive to spiritual advancement as can asanas, pranayama, and other "purer" disciplines.
Robert E. Svoboda
Raja yoga with asanas (poses and breathing) is a way of leading the inquirer to direct personal experience of the “beyond that is within.” Its method is willed introversion, one of the classic implements of creative genius in any line of endeavor. Its intent is to drive the psychic energy of the self to its deepest part to activate the last continent of the true self
Huston Smith (The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions)
What distinguishes an asana from a stretch or calisthenic exercise is that in asana practice we focus our mind’s attention completely in the body so that we can move as a unified whole and so we can perceive what the body has to tell us. We don’t do something to the body, we become the body. In the West we rarely do this. We watch TV while we stretch; we read a book while we climb the StairMaster; we think about our problems while we take a walk, all the time living a short distance from the body. So asana practice is a reunion between the usually separated body-mind.
Donna Farhi (Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness)
Hatha yoga is a way of working with the body, a way of disciplining, purifying, and preparing it for higher levels of energy and for greater possibilities. Hatha yoga is not exercise. It is, instead, about understanding the mechanics of the body, creating a certain atmosphere, and then using physical postures to channel or drive your energy in specific directions. This is the aim of the various asanas, or postures. That kind of posture that allows you to access your higher nature is a yogasana. It is the science of aligning your inner geometry with the cosmic geometry.
Sadhguru (Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy)
A modern fad which has gained widespread acceptance amongst the semi-educated who wish to appear secular is the practice of meditation. They proclaim with an air of smug superiority, ‘Main mandir-vandir nahin jaata, meditate karta hoon (I don’t go to temples or other such places, I meditate).’ The exercise involves sitting lotus-pose (padma asana), regulating one’s breathing and making your mind go blank to prevent it from ‘jumping about like monkeys’ from one (thought) branch to another. This intense concentration awakens the kundalini serpent coiled at the base of the spine. It travels upwards through chakras (circles) till it reaches its destination in the cranium. Then the kundalini is fully jaagrit (roused) and the person is assured to have reached his goal. What does meditation achieve? The usual answer is ‘peace of mind’. If you probe further, ‘and what does peace of mind achieve?’, you will get no answer because there is none. Peace of mind is a sterile concept which achieves nothing. The exercise may be justified as therapy for those with disturbed minds or those suffering from hypertension, but there is no evidence to prove that it enhances creativity. On the contrary it can be established by statistical data that all the great works of art, literature, science and music were works of highly agitated minds, at times minds on the verge of collapse. Allama Iqbal’s short prayer is pertinent: Khuda tujhey kisee toofaan say aashna kar dey Keh terey beher kee maujon mein iztiraab naheen (May God bring a storm in your life, There is no agitation in the waves of your life’s ocean.)
Khushwant Singh (The End Of India)
You watch yourself from the inside. It is a full silence. Maintain a detached attitude toward the body and, at the same time, do not neglect any part of the body or show haste but remain alert while doing the asana.
B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on Life)
Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.
Sharon Gannon (Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Diet of Enlightenment)
Yogasanas have often been thought of as a form of exercise. They are not exercises, but techniques which place the physical body in positions that cultivate awareness, relaxation, concentration and meditation. Part of this process is the development of good physical health by stretching, massaging and stimulating the pranic channels and internal organs. When yogasanas are performed, respiration and metabolic rates slow down, the consumption of oxygen and the body temperature drop. During exercise, however, the breath and metabolism speed up, oxygen consumption rises, and the body gets hot. In addition, asanas are designed to have specific effects on the glands and internal organs, and to alter electrochemical activity in the nervous system.
Satyananda Saraswati (Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha)
The yogic practices help us release memories without having to express them either outwardly or in dreams. They also help dissolve unwanted thoughts and feelings as they are forming, relieving the need to see them to fruition or preserve them for a later time. Sometimes while sitting still in meditation or holding an asana (pose), a memory will escape from the bottom of the mental-emotional lake. Like a bubble, it will float through layers of the subconscious and then pop on the surface of the conscious mind.
Nischala Joy Devi (The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman's Guide to the Heart and Spirit of the Yoga Sutras)
So we would say in yoga that the subtle precedes the gross, or spirit precedes matter. But yoga says we must deal with the outer or most manifest first, i.e. legs, arms, spine, eyes, tongue, touch, in order to develop the sensitivity to move inward. This is why asana opens the whole spectrum of yoga’s possibilities. There can be no realization of existential, divine bliss without the support of the soul’s incarnate vehicle, the food-and-water-fed body, from bone to brain. If we can become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. We all possess some awareness of ethical behavior, but in order to pursue yama and niyama at deeper levels, we must cultivate the mind. We need contentment, tranquility, dispassion, and unselfishness, qualities that have to be earned. It is asana that teaches us the physiology of these virtues.
B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom (Iyengar Yoga Books))
When we’re practicing asana, the movement and that awareness of what we experience in each shift, each new position, each breath, helps us connect with ourselves a little deeper. It helps us get to explore and know ourselves simply as an individual, being in this moment, moving breath to breath.
Raegan Robinson
ASANA Now I shall instruct you regarding the nature of asana or seat. Although by 'asana' is generally meant the erect posture assumed in meditation, this is not its central or essential meaning. When I use the word 'asana' I do not mean the various forms of asana’s such as Padmasana, Vajrasana, Svastikasana, or Bhadrasana. By 'asana' I mean something else, and this is what I want to explain to you. First let me speak to you about breath; about the inhaling breath-apana, and the exhaling breath-prana. Breath is extremely important in meditation; particularly the central breath-madhyama-pranan, which is neither prana nor apana. It is the center of these two, the point existing between the inhaling and exhaling breaths. This center point cannot be held by any physical means, as a material object can be held by the hand. The center between the two breaths can be held only by knowledge-jnana – not discursive knowledge, but by knowledge which is awareness. When this central point is held by continuously refreshed awareness – which is knowledge and which is achieved through devotion to the Lord – that is, in the true sense settling into your asana. “On the pathway of your breath maintain continuously refreshed and full awareness on and in the center of breathing in and breathing out. This is internal asana." (Netra Tantra) Asana, therefore, is the gradual dawning in the spiritual aspirant of the awareness which shines in the central point found between inhaling and exhaling. This awareness is not gained by that person who is full of prejudice, avarice, or envy. Such a person, filled with all such negative qualities, cannot concentrate. The prerequisite of this glorious achievement is, therefore, the purification of your internal egoity. It must become pure, clean, and crystal clear. After you have purged your mind of all prejudice and have started settling with full awareness into that point between the two breaths, then you are settling into your asana. “When in breathing in and breathing out you continue to maintain your awareness in continuity on and in the center between the incoming and outgoing breath, your breath will spontaneously and progressively become more and more refined. At that point you are driven to another world. This is pranayama." (Netra Tantra) After settling in the asana of meditation arises the refined practice of pranayama. ‘Pranayama’ does not mean inhaling and exhaling vigorously like a bellow. Like asana, pranayama is internal and very subtle. There is a break less continuity in the traveling of your awareness from the point of asana into the practice of pranayama. When through your awareness you have settled in your asana, you automatically enter into the practice of pranayama. Our Masters have indicated that there are two principle forms of this practice of ‘asana-pranayama’, i.e. cakrodaya and ajapa-gayatri. In the practice of ajapa-gayatri you are to maintain continuously refreshed full awareness-(anusandhana) in the center of two breaths, while breathing in and out slowly and silently. Likewise in the practice of cakrodaya you must maintain awareness, which is continually fresh and new, filled with excitement and vigor, in the center of the two breaths – you are to breathe in and out slowly, but in this case with sound.
Lakshmanjoo
The word asana is usually translated as “pose” or “posture,” but its more literal meaning is “comfortable seat.” Through their observations of nature, the yogis discovered a vast repertoire of energetic expressions, each of which had not only a strong physical effect on the body but also a concomitant psychological effect. Each movement demands that we hone some aspect of our consciousness and use ourselves in a new way. The vast diversity of asanas is no accident, for through exploring both familiar and unfamiliar postures we are also expanding our consciousness, so that regardless of the situation or form we find ourselves in, we can remain “comfortably seated” in our center.
Donna Farhi (Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness)
I am free from any holding patterns or unresourceful cycles that keep me in any comfort zone for longer than required
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I value authenticity, and I choose love, not attachment
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I enjoy good communication and cherish the relationship I have with myself and others
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
There is no need to compete or compare when you follow an illuminated path
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Inspiration seeks to emerge through me like the colors of a spectrum. Rainbows represent hope and come after rain, which is a source of life
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
People often regret their words but rarely their silence
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Live with equanimity between the delight of an idea and the awareness of opportunity
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
The greatest threat is not fear of the unknown, disapproval, or change. The greatest threat is indifference
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Stress is not the consequence of problems. It simply is a signal that should not be ignored. Take ownership, take action, and transform your life
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
When we disconnect from ourselves, we cannot truly connect with others
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
While defining the current narrative, we are missing the dawn of a new paradigm
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Explore the mysteries of life through the portal of the body. This offers freedom from all forms of attachment in order to help you experience your state of bliss.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
To be here now is a gift. Choose to be present and stay focused on purpose
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I wish nothing more for you than to be loved fully down to every cell, across all ancestral lines and all incarnations, until love is radiating through your body
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
In my tranquility, I know there is no need to take when I can receive
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
All time exists now, and I am present and ready for life with all its vitality
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
While practicing Asanas with deep breathing, we come across the internal resistance. This internal resistance reflects in many areas of our lives. With regular Asana practice with deep breathing, this internal resistance diminishes and we encounter our biggest strengths. This is how regular Asana practice with deep breathing changes our internal body and mind composition. Purvi Raniga
Purvi Raniga
When we practice asanas from an interior perspective, we bring our minds back into the body. Instead of directing the body as a separate entity, we relocate our minds within our body and begin to listen to the nonverbal, nonmental information contained within the soma. As we give our full attention to every breath, movement, and the subtlest of sensations, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied.
Donna Farhi (Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living)
Many of us attend a few yoga classes and find that we like the glimpse of another way of life that yoga offers. We are delighted by the way we feel after class and we are pleasantly surprised as certain behaviors start to fall away. Perhaps we no longer need coffee in the morning; or staying out late at night becomes less attractive; or we find ourselves calmer and more compassionate. Suddenly we're convinced that we've hit upon a painless way to solve all our problems. Sadly, this is not the case. Practice is not a substitute for the difficult work of renunciation. The postures and breath work that you do in a typical yoga class will change your life. These practices—asana and pranayama—suffuse us with the energy we need to take on the hard choices and to endure the inevitable highs and lows. What yoga practice will not do, however, is take the place of the hard lessons each of us has to learn in order to mature spiritually.
Rolf Gates
The word “yoga” has become synonymous with physical postures in modern society, which is a narrow view, of course. Nevertheless, the popularity of yoga postures is a good thing. Once practitioners get a taste of the benefits that come from yoga postures, it is natural to look to the broader scope of yoga methods that are available, ultimately leading many to deep meditation, pranayama (breathing techniques), mudras, bandhas, and other practices comprising the multi-limbed tree of yoga.
Yogani (Asanas, Mudras & Bandhas - Awakening Ecstatic Kundalini (AYP Enlightenment Series Book 4))
The Yoga system of Patanjali is known as the Eightfold Path. 9 The first steps are (1) yama (moral conduct), and (2) niyama (religious observances). Yama is fulfilled by noninjury to others, truthfulness, nonstealing, continence, and noncovetousness. The niyama prescripts are purity of body and mind, contentment in all circumstances, self-discipline, self-study (contemplation), and devotion to God and guru. The next steps are (3) asana (right posture); the spinal column must be held straight, and the body firm in a comfortable position for meditation; (4) pranayama (control of prana, subtle life currents); and (5) pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses from external objects). The last steps are forms of yoga proper: (6) dharana (concentration), holding the mind to one thought; (7) dhyana (meditation); and (8) samadhi (superconscious experience). This Eightfold Path of Yoga leads to the final goal of Kaivalya (Absoluteness), in which the yogi realizes the Truth beyond all intellectual apprehension. “Which is greater,” one may ask, “a swami or a yogi?” If and when oneness with God is achieved, the distinctions of the various paths disappear. The Bhagavad Gita, however, has pointed out that the methods of yoga are all-embracing. Its techniques are not meant only for certain types and temperaments, such as those few persons who incline toward the monastic life; yoga requires no formal allegiance. Because the yogic science satisfies a universal need, it has a natural universal appeal. A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world;
Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi (Complete Edition))
If the stretch is even, throughout the whole body, there is no strain at all. This does not mean that there is no exertion. There is exertion, but this exertion is exhilaration. There is no wrong stress or strain. A state of elation is felt within. When there is strain, the practice of yoga is purely physical and leads to imbalances and misjudgement. One feels weary and tired and get irritated or disturbed. When one stops straining and the brain is passive, it becomes spiritual yoga. When you have extended to the extreme, live in that asana, and experience the joy of freedom in that asana.
B.K.S. Iyengar (Light on Life)
The ancient rishi Patanjali6 defines yoga as “neutralization of the alternating waves in consciousness.”7 His short and masterly work, Yoga Sutras, forms one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy. In contradistinction to Western philosophies, all six Hindu systems8 embody not only theoretical teachings but practical ones also. After pursuing every conceivable ontological inquiry, the Hindu systems formulate six definite disciplines aimed at the permanent removal of suffering and the attainment of timeless bliss. The later Upanishads uphold the Yoga Sutras, among the six systems, as containing the most efficacious methods for achieving direct perception of truth. Through the practical techniques of yoga, man leaves behind forever the barren realms of speculation and cognizes in experience the veritable Essence. The Yoga system of Patanjali is known as the Eightfold Path.9 The first steps are (1) yama (moral conduct), and (2) niyama (religious observances). Yama is fulfilled by noninjury to others, truthfulness, nonstealing, continence, and noncovetousness. The niyama prescripts are purity of body and mind, contentment in all circumstances, self-discipline, self-study (contemplation), and devotion to God and guru. The next steps are (3) asana (right posture); the spinal column must be held straight, and the body firm in a comfortable position for meditation; (4) pranayama (control of prana, subtle life currents); and (5) pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses from external objects). The last steps are forms of yoga proper: (6) dharana (concentration), holding the mind to one thought; (7) dhyana (meditation); and (8) samadhi (superconscious experience). This Eightfold Path of Yoga leads to the final goal of Kaivalya (Absoluteness), in which the yogi realizes the Truth beyond all intellectual apprehension.
Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship))
Wherever you go, you are accompanied by your posse—your mind, emotion, senses and body and you are always at the centre of those entities. Shaivism tells us in Spanda Karikas, I.6–8, that the senses are inert in themselves, like the chess pieces, and only derive energy from the Self. This image of the Lord or the Self at the centre surrounded by an entourage of Shaktis is a compelling one. In a sense Shaivism’s goal is to make us be aware of this position: the Self as the source is always the centre of all experience. Shaivism tells us that when we don’t hold ourselves at the centre we lose energy or, in terms of this image, we lose control of our own shaktis. I call this the Shiva position or the Shiva asana (seat or posture). This Shiva asana is not different from Douglas Harding’s headless one nor from Somananda’s Shiva drishti. It is easily expressed by the Shaiva mandala (see opposite).
Shankarananda (Consciousness Is Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism)
Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called “Hatha-Yoga”. In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person. By origin, Yoga has mainly five forms: 1. Raja Yoga - The realization of divinity through intense meditation 2. Karma Yoga – The realization of divine bliss through your own daily activities and duties 3. Hatha Yoga – The realization of divine well-being through various physical exercises 4. Jyana Yoga – The realization of inexplicable bliss in the pursuit of knowledge 5. Bhakti Yoga – The realization of ecstasy through love and devotion for your Personal God The purpose of all Yogas is to set your consciousness lose into the vast domain of the unknown, where your brain circuits simulate various fascinating mental states that are usually unimaginable and unattainable in your everyday consciousness. But the whole yoga thing has nothing to do with God or something of that sort. It is all about various states of the human mind.
Abhijit Naskar (Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality)
No corpo feminino, o ponto de concentração está no mooladhara chackra, o qual está situado no colo do útero, logo atrás da abertura do útero. Este é o ponto onde o espaço e o tempo unem-se e explodem na forma de uma experiência. Esta experiência é conhecida como orgasmo na linguagem comum, mas na linguagem do Tantra ele é chamado um despertar. A fim de manter a continuidade desta experiência, é necessário que um acumulo de energia acontece naquele ponto em particular, ou bindu. Normalmente isso não acontece porque a explosão de energia dissipa-se por todo o corpo por meio do ato sexual. para evitar isso a mulher deve ser capaz de segurar sua mente em absoluta concentração naquele ponto em particular. Para isto, a prática é conhecida como sahajoli. Na verdade, sahajoli é a concentração no bindu, mas isto é muito difícil. Portanto, a pratica de sahajoli, que é a contração da vagina, bem como dos músculos uterinos, deve ser praticada por um longo período de tempo. Se é ensinada a menina, uddiyana bandha desde a mais tenra idade, ela aperfeiçoará sahajoli naturalmente com o tempo. Uddiyana bandha é sempre praticada com a retenção externa. É importante saber realizar isto em qualquer posição. Normalmente é praticado em siddhayoni asana, mas deve-se ser capaz de realizar em vajrasana ou na postura do corvo também. Quando você pratica uddiyana bandha, e outros dois bandhas – jalandhara e moola bandha ocorrem espontaneamente. Anos desta prática irá criar um senso de concentração no ponto correto no corpo. Esta concentração é mais mental em sua natureza, mas ao mesmo tempo, uma vez que não seja possível fazê-lo mentalmente, tem de começar de algum ponto físico. Se a mulher for capaz de concentrar-se e manter a continuidade da experiência, ela pode despertar sua energia para níveis superiores. De acordo com o tantra, há duas diferentes áreas do orgasmo. Uma é na zona nervosa, que é a experiência comum para muitas mulheres, e a outra é em mooladhara chakra. Quando sahajoli é praticado durante o maithuna (o ato da união sexual), mooladhara chakra desperta e o orgasmo espiritual, ou tântrico, acontece. Quando a yoguini é capaz de praticar sahajoli por 5 a 15 minutos, ela pode reter o orgasmo tântrico pelo mesmo período de tempo. Retendo esta experiência, o fluxo de energia é revertido. A circulação do sangue e das forças simpáticas e parassimpáticas move-se para cima. Neste ponto, ela transcende a consciência normal e vê a luz. É assim que ela entra no estado profundo de dhyana. A menos que a mulher seria capaz de praticar sahajoli, ela não será capaz de reter os impulsos necessários para o orgasmo tântrico, e conseqüentemente ela terá o orgasmo nervoso, que é de curta duração e seguida de insatisfação e exaustão. Isto é muitas vezes a causa da histeria de uma mulher e da depressão.
Satyananda Saraswati (Kundalini Tantra)
Yoga Asanas or poses show effective results against tailbone pain. They work by strengthening the spine, pelvis, and the hips.
Boukezzoula Mohamed Amine (Coccyx Pain Relief : Say Goodbye To Your Suffering: Coccydynia : Quick Relief For Tail Bone Pain)
RAJA YOGA is divided into eight steps. The first is Yama; that is to say, the practice of non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-receiving of anything, even if it be a gift, that is conducive to luxury. The next is Niyama; that it to say, the practice of the virtues of cleanliness, contentment, mortification, study, and self-surrender to God. Then come the steps Asana or posture, Prânâyâma or control of Prâna, Pratyâhâra or making the mind introspective, Dhâranâ or concentration, Dhyâna or meditation, and Samâdhi or super-consciousness.
Vivekananda (Raja Yoga or Conquering the Internal Nature)
Every inhale is a welcomed greeting and every exhale a farewell, a gentle inward hug for my organs
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
The sun made me see it. The moon made me do it.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
The soil feels our longing to love and loves us back. The acceptance of eternal rest as a seed. The gentle haunting lull of our spirits call.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Beyond the hollows of history, we continue to remain present with Nature. Sharing the same divine fate.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Unwind today. Find some part of the mind to release, some tension in the body to undo like a knot.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Through grounding, we find growth.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
To know the depths of your own heart is the greatest love affair you will ever have.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Navigate toward what you want rather than fixating on the past.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I cannot be broken, and I am stronger than anything that can happen to me.
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Brahma Yoga enables me to incorporate habits into my own personalized ritual, and through reflection, empowers me to enrich my life
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
In simplicity, I can find my purity
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
When I give love to myself fully, I can receive love and abundance from others without expectation
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Although I may seek order, reality is abstract and subjective. If I dig deep, I will see that I live in a world of ideas and the structure of elements are simply reified into different forms
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I have great willpower, as I know the sky is my mirror and my spirit is its reflection
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I am kind, sincere, and compassionate and give others the opportunity to express themselves
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I am a force for good, and I can empathize with others without losing my position and well-being
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I give others the freedom to be truly who they are
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I know the sun made me see it and the moon made me do it, so I calibrate the connection between the masculine and feminine
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
When I am mindful of the pace and capacity of my breathing and how it affects my emotional state and focus, my productivity grows exponentially and compounds
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Prosperity and powerful energy come to me when my resolve meets my ambition
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I live with potential and instinct using discernment
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
My virility is not only biological or existential. It is both sacred and sensual, so I am purposefully a lover of all of life
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I am directly connected to my source and origin
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
The universe is filled with fertility and is cyclical, and all elements are in a state of constant change and evolution. My dreams are by my side; they form beneath the unseen
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
The universe is in expansion. It is invested in me, and I am its beneficiary
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I can differentiate between the eternal and the transient with precision
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I encourage fluidity, as in my essence, I am a lover made to love
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Brahma Yoga, regardless of what I may have learned from some humans, shows me that love is love without exceptions or conditions
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Through beauty and truth, there is great transformation to a higher level of consciousness
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
By living my innateness, I am abundant, full of radiance, and can unlock the great secrets of life
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
I believe in blossoming, and I inspire others and myself to be the best we can be
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
Brahma Yoga nurtures me so I no longer hurt myself with negative thoughts
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
There is no need to give all of me to others
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
With creativity, I can manifest anything I wish, so there is no need to force anything when I can consider it
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)
By centering myself, I develop the conscious practice of moving more into stillness
Leo Lourdes (A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being)