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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Yoga has a rich and complex history that dates back to the ancient cultures of India. It arose from a combination of spiritual exploration, philosophical reflection, scientific experimentation, and spontaneous creative expression.
#2 The history of yoga is thousands of years old, and it is believed that the first written sources on yoga are found in ancient Hindu spiritual texts known as the Vedas. The Rig Veda, considered by many to be of divine origin, contains hymns that reflect the mystical exploration of consciousness, being, and connection with the divine.
#3 The primary form of meditation in the Vedic tradition is through mantra, the repetitive singing of certain sounds. The sounds themselves are put forth by the seers in what is considered a pure form of divine expression.
#4 The Upanishads are a collection of writings on yoga that were written in India during the Vedic period. They believe in a universal spirit, brahman, and an individual soul, atman. The practices described in the Upanishads are not similar to what we find in most yoga classes in the Western world today, but they do shape the language and experience of teaching.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	09 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	3
EAN13	9781669352631
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Yoga has a rich and complex history that dates back to the ancient cultures of India. It arose from a combination of spiritual exploration, philosophical reflection, scientific experimentation, and spontaneous creative expression.

#2

The history of yoga is thousands of years old, and it is believed that the first written sources on yoga are found in ancient Hindu spiritual texts known as the Vedas. The Rig Veda, considered by many to be of divine origin, contains hymns that reflect the mystical exploration of consciousness, being, and connection with the divine.

#3

The primary form of meditation in the Vedic tradition is through mantra, the repetitive singing of certain sounds. The sounds themselves are put forth by the seers in what is considered a pure form of divine expression.

#4

The Upanishads are a collection of writings on yoga that were written in India during the Vedic period. They believe in a universal spirit, brahman, and an individual soul, atman. The practices described in the Upanishads are not similar to what we find in most yoga classes in the Western world today, but they do shape the language and experience of teaching.

#5

The later Upanishads, written through the fifteenth century, began to experiment with different yoga practices that used breath and sound as tools of physical transformation.

#6

The Bhagavad Gita is a guide to spiritual liberation. It explores the mystery of the mind and provides a set of guiding principles for a life of conscious action. The practices described in the book offer a pathway to inner peace through connection with the divine.

#7

The three paths of yoga are karma yoga, jnana yoga, and bhakti yoga. The act of committing yourself completely to teaching yoga can be a form of karma yoga, making the needs and intentions of your students the focus of your efforts.

#8

The Yoga Sutras are a classic text on yoga, and they explain how to cultivate your path to samadhi, a blissful state where you are absorbed into oneness with the divine by releasing the ego. The eight-limbed path is yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi.

#9

The five yamas are nonviolence, being honest with yourself and others, celibacy, religious study, and self-restraint. They are applied to asana and pranayama in the yoga classroom.

#10

In Buddhism, this is called skillful means: the teacher draws from a variety of practices and teachings to lead a student along an appropriate path toward awakening. Redirecting the student’s effort is not lying if the purpose and effect is to help her in deepening her practice.

#11

The niyamas are personal observances that bring our attention away from relationships with others and onto the intimacy of our relationship with ourselves. They help us become more authentic in our teaching.

#12

The third limb of yoga presented in the Yoga Sutras is asana. Asana is commonly translated as pose, but it has a much richer meaning. It means being present in your body, inhabiting it, and living in it.

#13

Patanjali’s eight-limbed practice is done in sequence. If you attempt pranayama before properly preparing your body and mind, you will increase your tension and cause harm. The asanas, along with basic physical and mental health, allow pranayama to be done safely.

#14

Pratyahara is the practice of drawing the senses inward, relieving them of their external distractions. It allows you to leave external circumstances in abeyance. Without pratyahara, a bead of sweat gathering on your brow or the sound of someone entering class late might distract you from your breath or concentrated awareness.

#15

The eight limbs of ashtanga yoga are often compared to a tree. Yama creates the roots of living clearly and honorably through ethical being. Niyama establishes a base of purity in one’s body and mind. Asana creates the branches, extending strongly yet flexibly to move with the breezes of life.

#16

The path from the Vedas, Upanishads, and Yoga Sutras to the modern and well-known Hatha yoga practice is typically described as a series of straight evolutionary lines. But this is not correct. Rather, Hatha yoga arises from the formative influence of tantra, a fact that many Hatha practitioners refuse to accept.

#17

The left-hand path of tantra involves moving from esoteric internal practices to fully living in the world, embracing with intense concentration the most powerful expression of Shakti energy in the strongest sensual experiences.

#18

The tantric philosophy and practices are based on the idea of yoga, which is to be without separation. The aim is to be completely present in just that moment, and to find there a sense of being in a state of bliss or oneness.

#19

The first Hatha yoga texts were written in the fourteenth century by the Indian sage Swami Swatmarama. They explained the three purposes of Hatha yoga: total purification of the body, complete balancing of the physical, mental, and energetic fields, and the awakening of purer consciousness.

#20

Hatha yoga uses all of who we are, from our physical bodies to our most subtle and elusive inner nature, as the raw material for learning, seeing, and integrating our entire being.

#21

The shatkarma is the first stage of Hatha yoga practices, designed to bring the body’s three doshas or energetic qualities into balance. By balancing the doshas, we improve overall body function, allowing asana and pranayama practices to proceed with the greatest ease and effect.

#22

The roots of the salutation namaste and the bow come from the Pradipika, which describes a practice that starts with asanas and shatkarmas. The ultimate aim is the same as in raja yoga: to come into a state of samadhi.

#23

The Gheranda Samhita and the Pradipika offer very detailed guidance on pranayama practice, beginning with statements on how prana and the mind are inextricably linked: When prana moves, chitta moves. When prana is without movement, chitta is without movement. By this the yogi attains steadiness and should thus restrain the vayu.

#24

The Pradipika’s explanation of mudra and bandha is the support of all the yoga practices. With the help of tantric practices, kundalini, the energy that was unleashed in creation, is awakened and rises back up through the increasingly subtler chakras until union with God is achieved in the sahasrara chakra at the crown of the head.

#25

The first path is renunciate and firmly rooted in Patanjali’s raja yoga, while the second path is influenced by the tantric movement. The distinctions between these two tendencies would often blur as lineages, schools, and teachers brought their own creative expression to the evolution of yoga.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The history of yoga in the West is a history of yoga evolving and changing. It took until around the fourteenth century for Hatha yoga, the predominant form of practice, to be given written form in texts like Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

#2

The early American transcendentalist movement, which was centered around the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and others, spread knowledge of yoga in the West in a language that resonated with the non-Hindu culture in which they lived.

#3

As yoga continued to grow in the United States, it was often blended with other eastern spiritual practices, and this led to a variety of different yoga styles.

#4

Yoga teaching flourished in America in the early to mid-twentieth century with the rising influence of teachers from outside the country. In the 1940s and 1950s, a young Latvian-born teacher named Indra Devi popularized a form of Hatha yoga in Hollywood and across the country.

#5

The first well-known teacher to embody the eclectic creativity that characterizes most yoga teaching in the West today was Devi. She created a space in her classes for exploration beyond the structures and strictures inherited from the past.

#6

The traditional schools of yoga span a continuum from relative insistence on teaching and practicing in a prescribed way to more open and eclectic approaches in which teachers feel a sense of creative freedom.

#7

The Hatha yoga styles discussed here are the vast majority of approaches found in the West today. They each have their own methods and techniques, and it is up to the teacher to decide which ones to use.

#8

The legitimacy of teachings is bolstered if they are seen as received through an ancient lineage or from a divine source. The truth, however, does not provide enough motivation to accept what the guru says.

#9

Ananda yoga is a form of Hatha yoga that was developed by Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, and author of Autobiography of a Yogi. It emphasizes opening to a direct inner experience of the divine.

#10

Ashtanga means eight limbs, and it is the name of the popular approach to yoga taught by Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India, and practiced worldwide. The complete name, Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, identifies Jois’s method of yoga practice, which is firmly grounded in the Yoga Sutras.

#11

Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga is traditionally taught in Mysore style, in which each student moves through a sequence of asanas on their own while the teacher gives individualized guidance. The practice is done every day except Saturdays, new moons, and full moons.

#12

The few approaches to yoga in the West that are n