Yogasan is not only a physical exercise. It is a science, which develops personality, leads a person to harmony, peace, concentration and balance. It helps to practice meditation. Yoga is a group of ancient spiritual practices originating in India. As a general term in Hinduism it has been defined as referring to "technologies or disciplines of asceticism and meditation which are thought to lead to spiritual experience and profound understanding or insight into the nature of existence."
When everything else fails to ease and calm your mind, a therapeutic session of Yoga is sure to relax you and fill you with peace and serenity. Travel to India to discover Yoga, a 5,000 year old scientific technique for spiritual development, that at the very least will soothe your agitated senses and fill you with a sense of well-being, and at the most, help you to attain nirvana or Moksha, the ultimate unification of the body, mind and soul with the entire universe, as one interconnected whole. Yoga is an originally Indian concept that was propounded by the ancient Indian sage Patanjali and is derived from the Sanskrit word Yog which means ‘union,’ presumably union with the divine being or God.
When everything else fails to ease and calm your mind, a therapeutic session of Yoga is sure to relax you and fill you with peace and serenity. Travel to India to discover Yoga, a 5,000 year old scientific technique for spiritual development, that at the very least will soothe your agitated senses and fill you with a sense of well-being, and at the most, help you to attain nirvana or Moksha, the ultimate unification of the body, mind and soul with the entire universe, as one interconnected whole. Yoga is an originally Indian concept that was propounded by the ancient Indian sage Patanjali and is derived from the Sanskrit word Yog which means ‘union,’ presumably union with the divine being or God.
Yoga essentially seeks to utilize the energy present in every human being to regulate the heart rate, clear confusion and provide peace of mind. It provides long lasting results, and is perhaps the only discipline that works as a deterrent to the development of any further disease, without the help of any orally administered medicine. It has also been known to retard the ageing process.
According to the philosophy of Yoga - at the deepest (or highest) level of our existence on this earth, we are all perfectly free. However, this is not our everyday experience for in our ordinary state of consciousness, we are subject to all kinds of limitations, and most significantly, experience suffering (duhkha). The practice of Yoga can help us discover our innate freedom, through an extensive process of self-purification and cleansing of the mind.
Yoga detoxifies the body through purification of bowel, enemas, cleansing of the nasal passage and eyes. The breathing exercise ‘Pranayama’ enables one to get rid of blockages in the nadis. These harmful blockages are caused by various factors such as stress, toxins and improper diet and, impede the flow of prana throughout the body. According to proponents of Yoga, the interrupted flow of prana leads to adversities in mental, physical and emotional health of an individual. Regular practice of Yoga can rid us of these injurious blockages.
Yoga is mostly associated with the practice of Asanas (postures) of Hatha Yoga or as a form of exercise, although it has influenced the entire Indian religions family and other spiritual practices throughout the world.
The yoga and meditation tour in India aims at offering an acquaintance to the tourists about the yoga centres in India and the teachings and training of Yoga at these centres like Madras (Chennai), Rishikesh, Kerala, Rajasthan and Bihar. Yoga tour at the Yoga centres in India detoxifies the body through purification of bowel, enemas, cleansing of the nasal passage and eyes.
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Major branches of Yoga include: Hatha Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Raja Yoga. Raja Yoga, known simply as Yoga in the context of Hindu philosophy, is one of the six orthodox (āstika) schools of thought, established by the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Karma Yoga: the way of right action that propounds selfless serving without the motivation of obtaining results of labor.
Bhakti Yoga: the way of devotion thorough devotion to a supreme being to submerge emotion and self in pure love.
Jnana Yoga: the way of knowledge through studying divinity and learning to discriminate between illusion and reality.
Hatha Yoga : the physical path that trains the body to control the mind and senses through asana and pranayama.
Tantric Yoga: the feminine path that worships the goddess of energy and sees the body as the temple of the divine.
Kundalini Yoga: the path of energy that arouses the energy stored in the chakras through breathing and movement.
Raja Yoga: the path of meditation that controls the mind from wandering and helps to obtain mastery over thought.
Pranayama is an aspect of Yoga, that deals with breathing. Pranayama is a method of controlling prana or life force through the regulation of breathing. It is the breathing process or the control of the motion of inhalation, exhalation and the retention of vital energy.
The nature is made of different elements, which produce new substances with the action and reaction of one another. When there is some kind of imbalance or opposition in their functioning and work then the nature brings back its balance, if the nature is allowed to do its work according to its style then there will no imbalance in the environment.
KAYOTSARG
Kayotsarg is a tool for self-purification and realisation. It helps to reduce physical, mental, emotional, intellectual stress and anxiety. In this age of tension and stress, Kayotsarg leads to a happy, peaceful and contented life. A 24 hours long Kayotsarg was performed one day, the second a fatless and spiceless food was taken, the next day kayotsarg was again performed for 24hours. This whole exercise was performed for nine days. Through this most of the disease was got rid of and whatever was left was get rid of through naturopathy. Hypertension, heart diseases and backbone problems are a few of the diseases for which Kayotsarg has miraculous cures.
ANUPREKSHA
Anupreksha is full concentration on a single ancient conception. This is an efficient process of ascertaining the reality. Ancient philosophers and seers used this tools extensively for realising the Truth.
Objectives of Anupreksha
• Preksha means concentration of the perception
• Anupreksha means concentration of thought
• Activate the energy through Preksha and utilize that energy by Anupreksha. Through deep concentration, realize the eternal truth
• Emotional transformation or development of virtues by contemplation
• Eradication of psychological distortions such as irrational fear
2. Spiritual Basis of Anupreksha
• A spiritual therapy for curing physical, mental and emotional ailments
• A technique of self study and self introspection
• A process to understand the transitory nature of world
• Helps to keep consciousness free from infatuation
• Four kinds of Dharma Dhyan - Contemplate on solitariness, transitoriness, worldly object and its nature of not giving shelter permanently
• Enter into the level of Shukla Dhyan - Pure consciousness endowed with infinite energy, bliss and knowledge
3. Scientific Basis of Anupreksha
• Evidence show that habits and behaviour can be altered by changing the frequency of emotions
• Frequency should be reduced and wave length is to be increased
• When frequency is practically zero and wave length is infinite, the state of Shukla dhyan is achieved
• Modern alternative therapies:
Faith Healing
Pranic Healing
Hypnotism healing process
Aura cleansing
Metaphysical healing
4. The Process of Anupreksha
• Begin with mahaprana dhvani
• Relax the body and visualize the particular colour
• Experience that with each breath that colour particles are entering into body
• Perceive those particles at particular psychic center
