On the cover page of yoga books, we always see the display of complex body postures.
🔹There is a Yoga era for healthy, symmetrical
and beautiful bodies each and everywhere...also a tight competition between gyms and yoga studios worldwide.
🔹But do you know these all involve regular
breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, slow progressive results, with a transformation of our whole life?
🔹Nowadays many shocking news especially about young energetic active celebrities, suddenly passing away while doing exercises or regular fitness training.
🔹Do you know the majority of cases are
because of a lack of proper breathing practice, and relaxation in regular intervals? How many of us know Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, with a focus on the psychological concepts and techniques designed for controlling the processes of the mind, which form the core of Yoga psychology?
🔹Pictures seen in the majority of Yogic representations are only one of the limbs among eight limbs in (ashtangas) in the Patañjali yoga sutra. Let's know the Ashtanga of Yoga
Have you heard about the word mind river?, it is the literal word for the mental process according to Vyasa, the first and foremost commentator of the Yoga sutra. Yoga is the cessation of the mental process (Citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ).
Mental processes involved in this context in cognitive processes like those of thinking, imagining, doubting, inquiring, deciding, dreaming etc
Patañjai
🔹not invented Yoga but give a to-do manual based on practice
🔹short, only concepts and techniques are given.
Ashtanga of Yoga:
Patañjali presents an eightfold(aṣṭāṅga) path of Yoga. The eight ‘limbs’ involve the following:
1. Yama:
a set of behavioural restraints such as non-violence, avoidance of telling lies, etc, mental purification
. Niyama:
a set of rights, such as cleanliness, gratitude, ascetic practinowadaysawareness and everything from God etc.
3. Āsana:
a steady and comfortable posture,usually considering as Yoga now a days
4. Prāṇāyāma:
breath control,residing in an asana.
5. Pratyāhāra:
going inside, withdrawal of sense organs fa from objects, insight
6. Dhārṇā:
restricting the range of attention or concentration,
7. Dhyāna:
sustaining attention for long time.
8. Samādhi:
a high level of consciousness-raising to elevate the soul.
Namasthe.. love AnnaNathasha 🙏🏻
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