The word "yoga" comes from a Sanskrit term that literally means "yoke" and, in Hinduism, implies harnessing oneself to God. However, contextually or with a qualifier (e.g., chakra, Chinese, Polarity, Taoist, or Tibetan), the word "yoga" often seems to mean simply "religious or quasireligious practice or group of practices." It is a Hodgepodge of dozens of religious and quasireligious systems and methods, many of which are health-related.
A system of self-discipline & physical exercises which helps you gain control of the senses, body and mind, using meditation for purifying one's soul. An ancient Indian philosophy and way of life originating in India. A Hindu school of thought or a system of contemplation aimed at achieving a state of perfect spiritual insight, enlightenment, and tranquility for affecting the union of the human soul with the Supreme Being.
In the West, the term is most commonly understood as the physical exercises that are often practiced as an aid to healthy living. There are many different forms of yoga. Hatha yoga; the most widely practiced form of yoga in the Western world uses specific postures and breathing exercises. Yoga when used as a form of alternative medicine is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation, practiced for over 5,000 years.
Yoga is the third of the four successive stages (margas) of purification and enlightenment in Saiva Siddhanta--chariya, kriya, yoga and jnana. We can think of yoga as the joining of the atma with the paramatma. There are numerous means of joining the soul with God: In Ayurveda, yoga means union, and is a traditional system of healing the mind and body. It is believed that yoga cleanses the body of toxins, improving muscle tone and blood circulation. Useful for conditions such as anxiety, arthritis, headache, migraine, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, pregnancy, rheumatoid arthritis, and more.
There are four yoga's:
the path of devotion; the path of knowledge and discrimination;
the path of detached work, and the path of meditation.
Yoga for Busy People (YBP, Yoga for Busy People method): Form of hatha yoga expounded and endorsed by minister Dawn Groves. Purportedly, one learns with YBP how to "re-inhabit" one's body and develops a "childlike partnership" with it. Yoga Nutrition: Dietary method endorsed by Richard Hittleman, author of several books on yoga. Its theory holds that: (a) prana ("life-force") is absorbable from food and is its "real nourishment," and (b) eating too many indigestible, rich, "devitalized" foods allows gastric removal of "vital energies" from other parts of the body, including one's "mental and spiritual bodies." Yoga Therapy: 1. Field of practices that use yoga to treat mental and physical problems. 2. Psychotherapeutic variation of hatha yoga whose postulate is that disease is the cumulative lodging of "undigested experiences" in the "body/mind." Yogic Flying: An "aspect" of TM-Sidhi. Purportedly, it is a means of self-levitation whose effects include "bubbling bliss." Group practice allegedly promotes "harmonious trends" throughout a society. Yogic Neuromuscular Therapy: An alleged means of stabilizing the "mind body connection." This stabilization purportedly allows the connecting of the spirit and the "unified body and mind." Yagya: Vedic (Hindu) ceremony purportedly designed to engage at least one deity in promoting health and restoring "environmental balance." Yantra Yoga (Tibetan Yantra Yoga, Yantra Tibetan Yoga): Tibetan Buddhist variation of hatha yoga. The purported benefits of practicing Yantra Yoga include "balanced energy" and "spiritual development."
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