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Introduction to Yoga –Eight-fold path &
Yoga postures
Presented by:Didi Ananda
KrpaRevised by:
Dharmadeva
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What is Yoga?
It comes from root word ‘yunj’ (Sanskrit)
- which means to unify, to unite.
It is not like the union of sand and sugar; but is like the union of sugar dissolved in water, which, once merged, cannot be separated.
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Yoga as Science
Yoga is a system of practices that encourages the harmony and union of body, mind, & spirit - and gives a sense of Oneness.
Yoga is really a spiritual science.
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Shiva – the Father of Tantra
Shiva lived as a great spiritual master on this planet more than 7,000 years ago.
He systematized all the practices of yoga.
He systematized and taught the science of meditation, which is the greatest treasure that anyone can ever give.
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Raja Yoga In the West, yoga has often been
associated with body contortions, youth, beauty, and long life.
Actually this is only related to one type of yoga – HATHA YOGA.
Broadly, YOGA is an intuitional science.
Raja Yoga is known as Astaunga Yoga, or 8-fold yoga, a systematic approach to mastery of ourselves.
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8-limbed System of Yoga
Yama - external moral / ethical discipline.
Niyama - internal moral / ethical strength.
Asana - yogic postures. Pranayama - proper
breathing for vital energy.
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8-limbed System of Yoga (con’t)
Pratyahara - withdrawal of senses from the external world to internalize your consciousness for meditation.
Dharana - concentration, or extended mental focusing, fundamental to yogic meditation.
Dhyana - process of meditation, the principal practice of bringing your mind to ideate on Oneness.
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8-limbed System of Yoga (con’t)
Samadhi - experience of unitive consciousness, so as to feel inwardly one with the feeling of Infinite Peace / Cosmic Consciousness.
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Tantra What is Tantra? It is the basis of intuitional science. Root words:
– Tan - which means ‘expand’; and – Tra - which means ‘liberator’.
Origin of all branches of yoga practices.
Examples:
bhakti yoga jinana yoga karma yoga
dhyana yoga
kriya yoga hatha yoga
raja yoga astaunga yoga
mantra yoga
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Important Aspects of Yoga
Bhakti Yoga - discipline of love and devotion
Jinana Yoga - discipline of cultivating highest intellectual understanding
Karma Yoga - discipline of self-transcending action and service
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Hatha Yoga Places special emphasis on physical
postures integrated with harmonized breathing.
Allows for control over bodily functions which influence the mind.
Hatha yoga is the science of yoga that deals with the practice of asanas (yoga postures).
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How Yoga Postures Began
Yoga poses were developed thousand of years ago by yogis who observed different animals in the jungles – how they moved, how they rested, how they instinctively cured themselves when sick.
The yogis experimented with different animal postures on their own bodies and felt the subtle effects of these movements on their own organs and glands.
After centuries of experimentation, these postures were refined into a scientific system of thousands of exercises called ‘asanas’.
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What are Asanas? The root meaning of the word
‘asana’ is a position in which one feels comfortable.
They are yoga postures which when practiced regularly, the body stays healthy, flexible, strong and hardy.
They also help in preventing and curing diseases.
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Asanas – Stationery Poses
Asanas are practiced as stationary poses in which the body & mind are relaxed and composed.
They are accompanied by gentle movements, deep breathing and pointed concentration.
They give the same benefits as vigorous exercises, of stimulating circulation and increasing the supply of oxygen to the cells.
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Asanas vs Exercises
However, with vigorous exercise this extra supply of oxygen is used up during the exercises.
Whereas during the practice of asanas, energy is accumulated rather than spent.
The main difference between asanas and forms of vigorous exercises is that asanas affect the internal organs and are not just like skeletal or muscular exercises.
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The Endocrine Glands
Yoga postures, when properly done, affect mainly the glands and internal organs.
The endocrine glands secrete chemical substances called hormones into the blood stream which affect both body and mind.
- For instance, sometimes at ovulation when estrogen and progesterone hormonal levels are high, women are optimistic.
- Whereas, sometimes women can be unfriendly when estrogen levels are lowest during the premenstrual time.
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Over or Under-secretion of Glands
Over or under-secretion of the endocrine glands, in people, may cause not only sickness but various mental and emotional disturbances.
Can also cause negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, anger & hatred, which destroy our health and mental peace.
The yogic asanas exert a subtle pressure on the different glands, restoring a balanced secretion of hormones, and bring about emotional equilibrium and mental peace.
They also develop spiritual sentiment.
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Importance of Asanas
Balance the endocrine glands & control the emotions.
Revitalize the nervous system.
Improve blood circulation.
Relax any tensions in the muscles.
Can correct defective postures.
Calm the mind.
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Overall Benefits of Asanas
Improves muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina
Easy movement of the body
Tones the organs Aids in blood
circulation Stimulates immune
system Lowers blood
pressure and cholesterol
Reduces fat
Is cleansing Improves breathing Reduces stress and
tension Improves
concentration and creativity
Creates sense of well-being and calmness
Boosts self-esteem Elevates the mind Creates spiritual
sentiment
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Postures and Meridians Asanas affect the
energy flow of the body. There are 12 major
meridians of chi or energy in the body.
Most of these are related to a particular internal organ with which it transverses.
Yoga asanas directly put pressure on these key points, strengthening the meridians, and if necessary redirecting the circulation of vital energy within them.
Yoga postures as ‘self–acupuncture’ stimulate the meridians of vital energy.
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Chakras – Psychic Centers Chakras are subtle
energy centers along the spinal column.
These psychic centers are also related to the endocrine glands.
They find a psycho-physical manifestation in conjunction with the glands.
Asanas affect the chakras.
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Chakras – Main List There are seven conventional
chakras:
– 1st chakra = Muladhara - terranean
– 2nd chakra = Svadhisthana - fluidal
– 3rd chakra = Manipura - igneous
– 4th chakra = Anahata - solar
– 5th chakra = Visuddha - sidereal
– 6th chakra = Ajina - lunar
– 7th chakra = Sahasrara - 1000 petals
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Concentration Points for Chakras
1)Mu'la'dha'ra - base of the spine, above the perineum;
2)Sva'dhis't'ha'na - base of the genital organ;
3)Man'ipura - navel; 4)Ana'hata - midpoint of the chest; 5)Vishuddha - throat; 6)A'jina‘ - between the eyebrows; 7)Sahasra'ra - crown of the head.
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Asana Practice – for Maximum Effect
Must be comfortable to the yogi, as effect on glands and chakras is very important.
Best practiced in the early morning before meals and in the late afternoon or early evening before meals.
Do 2 - 3 hours after eating; On finishing, leave 20 - 30 minutes
before eating.
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Things to Remember
Breathing control.
Conscious stretching: - no pain should be felt.
Counter positions or balance: - must treat the body equally by
stretching each side of body equally and in opposite directions.
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Asanas – the Proper Flow Important
aspects:
Moving into the pose
Maintaining the pose
Coming out of the pose
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Some basic asanas- Yoga mudra A good warm-up
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Some basic asanas- Cobra
Counter-balance the first warm-up
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Some basic asanas- Hare Good for memory
and intellect
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Some basic asanas - Boat
Good for navel which is the controlling point of the body
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Some basic asanas - Shoulder stand
Helps increase longevity, invigorates all the lower chakras, cures many diseases.
High blood pressure patients should not do this asana.
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Some basic asanas - Fish
Complimentary to shoulder stand
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Fish posture
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Some basic asanas
- Spinal twist (must do both sides)
Activates all the chakras, helps in all diseases, helps in longevity
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Asanas for Spiritual Development
Remember: Asanas are not like exercises; They should be learnt from a
competent acarya (meditation and yoga teacher).
Need to:
– Know the asana
– Know the person
– Fit the asana to the person
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Stress at Different Levels
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Yoga and Stress As part of the evolution of mind,
the crude mind is converted into subtler mind.
As the mental scope goes on increasing, mind undergoes a psychic dilation / expansion.
The operative forces of this psychic dilation are 3 in number:
(1) physical force, created out of physical clash;
(2) psychic force, created as a result of clashes in the psychic sphere;
(3) spiritual force emanated from longing for the Great.
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Multilateral Mind As a result of mental dilation, ie increase in
volume and mass of the psychic body, the mind acquires more and more potentiality for multilateral activities.
According to the mental dilation, the physical body as well gets metamorphosed, and as the longing for the Great increases, the physical body develops certain complexities for an adjustment with the higher psychic demands.
Hence we find that in creatures having developed sentiments, the physical body is a composite structure of a large number of glands with their peculiar activities. The developed glandular complexity is an essentiality for facing the psychic clashes in subtler spheres.
- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
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Dealing with Life ArenasFor expansion in life and for mental and spiritual development, individual human beings need to deal with the: physical physico-psychic psychic psycho-spiritual spiritual They also need to deal with the social sphere.
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Yoga and Balance
There needs to be a proper balance between:
physical mental / psychic spiritual
This is done for and while the unit being moves and experiences spiritual realisation.
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Spirituality – the Subtlest Pursuit
The realization of the universality of one Infinite Consciousness and the experience of Bliss.
The opportunity to realize and become conscious of a Supreme Reality.
One's spiritual ‘fitness’ is determined by the feeling of Oneness, the desire to be with the Divine all the time and the strength of one's will power.
You've got to live it!
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Spirituality and Yoga
Yoga is Self-conquest = merger of unit mind into Cosmic.
Since the Divine is universal, there is no dogma in yoga.
Practices are scientific, so a system should be followed to gain the benefits.
That system is the 8 fold path and all the practical steps associated with it.
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- its not hard to do.
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