If we follow the First and the Second principles, we shall realize what is our dharma; understanding our dharma gives us an insight of our duty. Knowing our duty will help us to identify our goals in life and correct
Yoga doesn’t take power — yoga gives it. Daily practice increases human strength and provides a supply of energy. Despite the fact that classes require some energy from us, due to the harmonization of internal processes, strength is added. It
Yoga has a magical method of relaxation — shavasana (rest pose). The Treatise of Hatha Yoga says: “Mastery in yoga is determined by the posture of Shavasana.” Relaxing in shavasana, we release muscular tension throughout the body, and the feeling
Ahimsa nonviolence, non-harming other living beings. We should do our best to cause no harm to any living being unless it is absolutely necessary. If it is impossible, we should follow our duty. With regard to yoga practice, this principle
There always has been, is and will be the need for retreat. Since antiquity, people wanted to find something more valuable and important in their lives than the usual daily routine. There are always people who are looking for the
Retreat means a quiet or secluded place in which one can rest and relax. In yoga, this term is used to refer to spiritual practice with complete immersion. A retreat can be either solitary or with a group of like-minded
The Universe, allowing us to be born, gives an opportunity to learn important lessons, and yoga gives various practical tools for their successful overcoming. However, to take advantage of these tools, we need a physical living body — the human
There are as many types of yoga as there are types of human activity. Nyasa Yoga is a branch of yoga working with our tactual sensibility. It is translated as “Yoga of touch sensations”. Nyasa yoga is very similar to
All the new solutions that the modern civilization offers us are in English, as it has become the international language of communication. Knowing English we will be able to draw information from different sources — the ancient treatises on yoga,
Yoga offers a great variety of tools to overcome fear! Therefore, using our mind and the instruments of yoga we can overcome personal ignorance and realize the source of our fears. We will tend to do less harm to everybody
Released power, first of all, goes for recovery of the body, and we feel the surge of energy and vivacity. And the stable emotional state, following this effect, lets us review our life and rebuild it in the right way,
The degree of our awareness will depend on the state of our gross physical body and the processes running at a deeper level. It should be noted that, we are closely interconnected with the environment, because our body is an
When we spend our time in nature, we feel much better than in the big cities. That is why, even intuitively, we strive to spend our free time more often in parks, summer cottages, villages, hiking, etc. This is especially
Bhakti is a very powerful method, because through the contemplation of beauty we forget about everything except the object of contemplation — through this we naturally reach an extreme degree of concentration and higher states in yoga. The pitfall is
Bhakti yoga gives the following answer: supreme logic never contradicts logic. To learn to trust the Universe, we need to constantly sharpen our minds. Otherwise, uncritical perception can be tricky.
Бхакти йога даёт следующий ответ: сверхлогика никогда не противоречит логике.
One of the most powerful tools to overcome our egoism is help other living beings. Sometimes, being overwhelmed with routine, we forget what it is — help others. The principle “The whole world owes me” makes our egoism even stronger.
Bhakti yoga — the essence of implementing the triple approach: will expression, knowledge and action. A perfect Bhakti Yogi achieves liberation from all personal limitations and learns that there is no difference between the Higher Self and the Absolute. Show
Ancient treatise “The Narrative of Hatha yoga” states that the habit to practice yoga every day is the main criteria of success on the way to understanding yoga. But what do they mean by the word “habit”?
“A habit is
The regular practice will bring harmony into our everyday life and will help to fill it with peace, give strength and energy for the creative work. A person can make achievements in different activities due to these internal changes: knowing
Yoga exercises are extremely useful for the body, as they engage different types of muscles, work on joints and ligaments, provide the required daily load of physical exercises for the body that we lack in the modern lifestyle, and release
Yoga cannot replace medicine. It is true that a lot of people, who regularly practice yoga notice improvement of health, positive changes in their shape, better sleep, resistance to stress, etc. But all these things are considered only bonuses from
It does not matter if we eat only plant food or consume animal products. The most important is to follow the principle of harmony in our personal life and in yoga practice. The regular practice will lead us to changes
According to Yoga, each of us has a Higher Self, which is absolutely free, Almighty and All-knowing. It manifests itself in cosmosphere as Prana. The word Prana translated from Sanskrit means “breath” or “life”. It is also called “vitality”. In
From the ancestors of humanity we have got a great amount of methods to activate and recover our bodies and feel the vivacity and the flow of vital force. One of these methods is Kriya Yoga. In our language ‘kriya’
Using physical exercises yoga helps to keep the body in harmony and to reach the next level in self-knowledge. Yoga teachers pass the tradition of leading healthy lifestyle through the ages. Men and women trained hard their bodies to feel
The second principle of Yoga: “I will use my energy and focus my consciousness only on such things which lead me to my goals in work, study, leisure or yoga. Before I get involved in any task, I should ask
The First Yoga principle: “I want to be kind, I can be kind and I will be kind! I will make every effort not to make harm to any living being unless it is necessary. If I cannot avoid doing
Every our thought has consequences in the real life. Forgetting about the importance of thoughts in our head, we admit uncontrollable emotions, reactions and events in our life. With time we can notice, that we don’t like what is happening
It seems that nothing could be easier than living and letting live. Although, whether we realize it or not, very often we fail to follow this principle. Sometimes, while we are struggling to survive ourselves, we interfere with somebody else’s
Time is an extremely valuable resource in our life. However, do we always realize its pricelessness? What does it take to spend time effectively, making it the most beneficial for ourselves and for the rest of the world? There are
If we study ancient texts of India then there the appearance of yoga is associated as the knowledge given to people by Shiva – the supreme God of Hindu tradition, representing the primary Creator of the Universe.
Появление йоги исследователи
Usually what we think of ourselves is not what we really are. We can associate ourselves with our aspects: the physical body, emotions, moods, thoughts, social status. But this is not the Higher Self. This is just a manifestation of
Yoga teaches us that our Higher Self is omnipotent, omniscient and free. However, as our Higher Self considers itself the manifestations: the body, the thoughts and the emotions, it suffers, has fears and weaknesses. Yoga recommends us to remember about
Bhakti yoga is a very “subtle” yoga. It tells us that behind all true beauty lies the manifestation of some higher principle of the Universe, which is called the Absolute, God, The Supreme, etc. We gravitate to where we grasp
Yoga rejects sexual, age-related, national, religious or any other differentiation of people. Yoga is for everyone! And everyone can find their own yoga. There are just fashionable trends. There were times when only men could practice yoga. Now we can
First, a lot of scientists come to the opinion that yoga knowledge was brought into India from outside thousands of years ago and had been stored there till the Colonization. After that yoga came to the West. Second, the system
It is important for the person doing Nyasa to feel the body of another person as his/her own, and perform nyasa in such a way as you would like it to be done for yourself. It is necessary to feel
«Our spontaneous reaction, our negative state of mind, our physical and emotional feelings depend on our associative links, on the way our channels are formed and on the way our Prana goes through them” Vadim Openyoga
«Наша спонтанная реакция, наше
When we practice yoga we can influence the associative links from both the subtle level (our thoughts and emotions) to the physical level (our physical body) and from the physical to the subtle. Therefore, we break our old inappropriate associative
On the way of learning Yoga, the first step is to exercise control over the physical body. Kindly and consistently we learn to listen to our body and to control it. As a good manager we force it when necessary
When a person is full of life, he is happy, joyful, healthy and capable to achieve any goals rather quickly. If the vitality is reduced, a person is prone to diseases and problems and hardly achieves success. The fuller our
