Saturday, July 5, 2008
Why to Choose to Practise Bikram Yoga
... the eight limbs of practice. One of the main effects of ashtanga Yoga is that it produced abundant amounts of body heat, which in turn provokes abundant sweating. This helps in detoxifying the body, a process necessary for the purification of the individual on the path to samahdi. The practice of bikram Yoga differentiates itself from ashtanga by the use of warmed rooms. Temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit) and humidity levels of 40% help achieving the detoxifying of the body and speeds up the healing process of injuries.
Another good reason for taking up bikram Yoga is that it has been "westernised", or adapted to the needs of western capitalistic society. While having been designed as a physical therapy for people with injuries, bikram Yoga dispenses with the goal of achieving samahdi and concentrates on the immediat...more
Yoga, Or Creating The Link With God?
...e is up, the body dies?
What mysterious force keeps us alive? Why? And why does a life have a beginning and an end? Yogis believe firmly that when they reach the state of samahdi, all the answers to these type of questions will be known. In other words, while in a state of samahdi, the yogi elevates his awareness of life, his consciousness, to such a high level of harmony with creation that it is given to him to understand it completely.
One could say that the yogi in a state of samahdi is "logged on", or in direct contact with that force which is referred to as "life". Just like a PC that is logged on to a site on the Internet with total privilege, meaning, the user can open any available page, so can the yogi perform a query or search in his mind while in samahdi and the answer will come to him, whatever the question or its subject.
The best comparison I could make, ant it is spectacular, that I do admit, is that the yogi in samahdi logs on to and creates a direct link with God. Does this make the yogi omn...more
Dangers of Kundalini Yoga
...Kundalini yoga is particular path of yoga, which amongst other things can offer a seeker tremendous occult power. Kundalini yoga seeks to open up the different charkas or energy centers. If an aspirant is successful he will be able to have access to these yogic powers.
The first danger of awakening the kundalini powers is that they can be easily misused. If we open our third eye it is possible to read others thoughts and have a glimpse into the future. However this power can be easily misused, we may start to look at what people are thinking about, rather than using it for divine purposes we will use it for our own egoist uses. If we do not have purity and genuine aspiration, gaining occult powers, may just give us a tremendous sense of pride. We would enjoy showing off to other people. By doing this we do not gain any divine qualities of peace and inner happiness. When we feed the ego we become proud and this can easily lead to our downfall.
With Kun...more
Teaching Hatha Yoga: Establishing Guidelines for Student Conduct
...elves from the phone, they should set it to vibrate without noise.
Most Yoga teachers realize a few people are on call, but they cannot be allowed to disrupt what the majority of Yoga students seek. Most Yoga students come to your classes to find a piece of tranquility. They want to get away from cell phones, multi-tasking, deadlines, and a hectic work day. Keep your body clean. It bothers all of us, if we have to remind a student of this. This is a tough but necessary guideline. Even though you might use common sense, someone eventually will enter the Yoga studio, and your nostrils will never forget the experience.
How long can you, or your Yoga students, take the punishment? Your students do no...more
