What is Yoga?
5 Jan 2020 HYN Himalayan Yoga Academy
Current Overview of Yoga:
Everybody knows what yoga is. Yoga is being done in health clubs, beauty parlors, stadiums, movie shooting studios, Gym halls, Aerobics Chambers, Zumba halls, Theater, etc. Celebrities cum all stars are doing nowadays to maintain fitness and keep them thin & slim. They are thinking that yoga is a great role and is very important in the glamour zone as well. Now let’s talk and find out what they are actually doing that tells us whether it is yoga or not. So, Learn What is Yoga……….
First Angle:
Physical jerks at the Gym Play? The more they are smooth, easy, and balanced; they may perform true yoga practices. But many of what now they approach, are just the aerobics series, and physical training using yoga postures as their form, and because of the quick extreme stretching with bouncing ‘ballistic’ movements they are not yoga, is just the Yogasana postures. The fundamental ethics of physical training is “No pain No Gain” but it is not yoga.
Second Angle with something:
Yoga has been proven to be a beneficial stress–relieving system and can be used by anyone right in the middle of a stressful situation, close to but only a small part of it. The Yoga classes at modern yoga studios, of which are tens of thousands throughout the world. So far as they are taught by experienced yoga teachers who have been there using simple techniques suited to the fitness, flexibility, and experience of the student, they may do a small amount of what we try to accomplish from Yoga.
Third Angle with different ideology:
Sometimes, somewhere the people/yogins in deep meditation in a cave and camp are also an image people usually have. However, most yogins are deeply involved in the world for the benefit of the world and the people in it and certainly have little time for sitting in caves. These people think meditation is supper, is everything. Some people think yoga & meditation or meditation & yoga are different science or different practices for different purposes. In fact what it is.
People have many ideas of what yoga is, but rarely do they come anywhere near the width and depth of yoga. The object of this article is to express the right image of the extent of yoga and to explain how we can use it in our lives to realize our highest potential and dimensions. It makes us acknowledge about the true sense of yoga science, its true understanding, and its daily applications.
Meaning of Yoga: What is Yoga
Yoga means the state of oneness achieved by uniting, yoking, harmonizing, equalizing, and connecting.
Definition of Yoga:
There are many definitions of yoga given in different sacred texts and also some are practically applied conditionally and unconditionally. Yoga is more about meditation. Throughout the meditation, we reach Yoga. Meditation is the final tool or the final key for yoga. So we can’t say yoga and meditation, but we can say yoga asana and meditation or meditation and Yoga or Samadhi as well at least.
At somewhere point in yoga studios, I heard and read as well that they are saying yoga and meditation and also say that “ We teach both yoga and meditation” in our center. In fact, that is wrong. The right thing is to say that we teach just “Yoga”, and not need to say that we teach yoga and meditation because all the things are means of Yoga, which is not different from yoga. Yoga is mastery over the mind and is more about meditation.
Yoga is generally defined as:
Yoga is the realization of the union of body, mind, and soul. It is the science of self-realization throughout the body, mind, and soul. Yoga is not done, is achieved. It is not physical activity, that is achieved from the performance of these activities. It is the state of proper functioning by uniting of hardware, software, and current together.
Yoga is defined as the “Management of Life”. It has three aspects body management by physical yoga ( Hatha Yoga), Mind management by concentration and meditation ( Raja Yoga), and power management by energy recharge ( Prana Yoga). It is also known as “A Way of Living”. We learn how to be healthy, how to be happy, and how to be conscious. How is the day, for Night; how is the night, for the day?