Thursday 14 February 2013

What is Yoga?

Yoga means different things to each one of us. For some, it is relaxation and letting go of every day stresses. For others, it is a deeper philosophical and spiritual discipline. Some, on the other hand, are more interested in its physiological benefits. As you embark on your journey with yoga, you discover what yoga has to offer you and your own yoga practice will develop as a result.

'The Deeper Dimension of Yoga' by Georg Feuerstein offers some traditional definitions for yoga. You can have a read and see which one's you resonate with the most.... Perhaps they will bring a new perspective to your own self-practice.


Yoga is the control of the whirls of the mind.

Yoga is skill in the performance of actions.

Yoga is ecstasy.

Yoga is said to be the oneness of breath, mind, and senses, and the abandonment of all states of existence.

Yoga is the union of the individual psyche with the transcendental Self.

Yoga is said to be the unification of the web of dualities. 

Yoga is known as the disconnection of the connection with suffering. 

Yoga is said to be control.

Yoga is the separation of the Self from the World-Ground.

Yoga is said to be the unity of exhalation and inhalation and of blood and semen, as well as the union of sun and moon and of the individual psyche with the transcendental Self. 

This they consider Yoga: the steady holding of the senses. 

Yoga is called balance.  

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