By Sadhguru
Sadhguru: Unfortunately in the western part of the world, if you utter the word “Yoga,” people think you must twist yourself out like rubber bands.
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The profound inspiration that yoga promises begins not in the body, but in the mind. In The Yoga Mind, internationally renowned yoga expert Rina Jakubowicz takes a simple, accessible approach to the complex origins of yoga philosophy.
If you spend considerable time doing yoga, you begin to see that it is about much more than just the body—the practice of yoga in fact reveals that the body is in no way separate from the psYchospiritual forces that animate it.
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A Benjamin Franklin winner for Health Wellness & Nutrition, Anatomy of Hatha Yoga remains the most authoritative source correlating the study of hatha yoga with anatomy and physiology.
Hatha Yoga for Teachers and Practitioners is a must-read if you want to derive maximum benefits from your yoga practice.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Light on Hatha Yoga) includes the original Sanskrit text compiled by Maharshi Swatmarama with a translation and thorough commentary in english by Swami Satyananda and Swami Muktibodhananda.
Eric Shaw explains the traditional purpose of Hatha Yoga. In ancient times it had a wider view than today, where it sometimes implies fitness. Hatha means Sun/Moon, which is a clue to the deeper movement of energy within the body during a Hatha Yoga Practice.
Satsang with Tyagis Shurjo and Narayani.
Hatha yoga aims to achieve balance between the body and the mind through the use of physical poses or asanas, breathing techniques or Pranayama, and meditation. Asanas are various postures that are designed to improve health and remove diseases in the physical, causal, and subtle bodies.
According to Hatha Yoga as taught by Prabhuji, in our session of pracice, after the Vinyasa (such as Sun Salutation or Surya Namaskara) we should practice Asanas, or yoga postures. Here is a demonstration of the 12 classical postures as taught by Prabhuji.
Ram takes us through Lesson 1 of this Hatha Yoga series. To begin, This yoga class helps us to loosen up and relax with basic eye neck and shoulder exercises, abdominal breathing and basic leg raises before moving on to an introduction to the Shoulder Stand and Fish asanna (or poses).