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Yoga Basics Tips: Before You Begin

September 3rd, 2008 Shaka

Yoga Basics Tips: Before You Begin
Yoga may seem simple, but it is a powerful form of exercise.

So, as with any exercise program, you should consult with your doctor before you undertake a yoga program if you have any existing medical conditions or concerns.

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Yoga Basics Tips: Where to Practice

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Yoga Basics Tips: Where to Practice
You can practice yoga anywhere, indoors or outdoors. All you need is a good flat surface and space to move without obstruction. A rug or yoga mat is helpful in providing a non-slip surface, but not absolutely necessary.

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Yoga Basics Tips: Yoga Pilates For Health

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Yoga Basics Tips: Yoga Pilates For Health

Derived from hundreds of yoga asanas, Joseph Pilates created a basic system of 34 exercises which help align the spine and open energy channels in our bodies. Like yoga, the exercises have three basic functions: movement toward and away from center and rotation around it. However, unlike yoga, Pilates involves constant movement, rather than holding the poses as is the case in yoga. While both yoga and Pilates movements are executed with a focus on breath and alignment, Pilates proper lacks a spiritual element. That is why several schools now offer a sort of hybrid course of Yoga Pilates.

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Yoga Basics Tips: Yoga Overview

September 3rd, 2008 Shaka

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Yoga Basics Tips: Yoga Overview

Yoga originated thousands of years ago in India. This ancient practice strives to unite the body, mind, and spirit. In basic terms, yoga practice trains practitioners to reunite personal consciousness with universal consciousness. We were never really separated, yogis believe, but in this life we often forget our interconnectedness with all living beings. Practicing yoga helps us to remember that both consciously and physically. In fact, the word “yoga” means “to bring or yoke together.”

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Yoga Basics Tips: Six Branches

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Yoga Basics Tips: Six Branches

Hatha Yoga is the branch of yoga most commonly practiced in the West. It’s basically the physical form of yoga with a focus on postures, breathing and meditation.

However, there are five other branches: Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga and Tantra Yoga, each ascribes to a slightly different philosophy. For example, Raja Yoga is also known as classical yoga and its focal point is meditation.

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Yoga Basics Tips: The Philosophy of Yoga

September 3rd, 2008 Shaka

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Ancient Yogis used the image of a vehicle to describe man’s place in a harmonious life. The mind is the driver of this vehicle. The soul is man’s true nature. Three energies that make that mid-body “vehicle” move are action, emotion, and intelligence. For complete centeredness, these three energies must be in balance. Yoga, therefore, combines techniques in movement for physical health as well as breathing and meditation skills that bring mental health.

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Yoga Basics Tips: Classical Yoga/The Eightfold Path

September 3rd, 2008 Shaka

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Yoga Basics Tips: Classical Yoga/The Eightfold Path

In the second century C.E., Patanjali composed a seminal text, Yoga-Sutra and defined Classical Yoga. The 195 aphorisms or sutras that comprise the Yoga Sutra, expound upon Raja-Yoga, which is the eightfold Yoga path. The Eight Limbs of Classical Yoga are: 1) Yama/Restraint, 2) Niyama/observance of purity, tolerance and study, 3) Asana/Physical Exercises, 4) Pranayama/Breath Control, 5) Pratyahara/Preparation for Meditation 6) Dharana/Concentration, 7) Dhyana/Meditation and Samadhi/Enlightenment.

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Yoga Basics Tips: Ancient Yoga

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Many scholars believe that Yoga originally came from shamanistic practices of the Stone Age. There are parallels in it between Modern Hinduism and Mehrgarh, a Neolithic settlement (in what is now Afghanistan). Many tenets of Hinduism appear to have their roots in this shamanistic culture of Mehrgarh. Early Yoga and archaic shamanism had much in common. Both worked to transcend the human condition in a personal way, but as a community practice. Later, yogis turned the practice toward more individual development with the understanding that the more developed an individual is, the more united he becomes with all creation.

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Yoga Basics Tips: Pre-classical Yoga

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Yoga Basics Tips: Pre-classical Yoga

Between 1800 and 1500 B.C., approximately 200 Gnostic texts called the Upanishads came to being. They explained the concept of the transcendental self and its relation to the ultimate reality. The Karma doctrine is believed to have originated with the Upanishads as well. From this point, other related belief systems branched including Jainism and Buddhism. All practice the idea of transcendence and interconnectedness of all beings.

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Yoga Basics Tips: The Vedas and Yoga

September 3rd, 2008 Shaka

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Yoga Basics Tips: The Vedas and Yoga

The Indus-Sarasvati civilization created the oldest scriptures in the world: the Vedas. The these collections of prayers and songs that speak to a higher power contain the oldest recorded yogic teachings. This is why the teachings in the Vedas are also referred to as Vedic or Pre-classical Yoga.

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Yoga Basics Tips: Yoga Overview

Yoga Basics Tips: Six Branches

Yoga Basics Tips: The Philosophy of Yoga

Yoga Basics Tips: Classical Yoga/The Eightfold Path

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