HarmonyJoga

11/09/2018

Practice benefits
Channel your energy thanks to the control of your pelvic floor and of your abdominal area (Mūla bandha)
Develop your concentration by fixing your eyes in a direction (drishti) while doing the postures (āsana).
Breathing in harmony with the movement (Ujjãyi Prāṇāyāma)
Increase your confidence
Linking the postures to each other

« Oh Yogi, never practice any āsana without vinyasa… ».
Vanama Rishi

10/07/2018

vyādhi = vi + ādhi

vi :
special; supreme; highest or subtle

ādhi :
disease; physical ailment; more precisely, a physical and mental condition where you are helplessly and completely (ā) grounded (dhi); physical ailment
Thus, vyādhi refers to mental ailment; mental illness; a condition totally opposite to samādhi; the condition of mind preventing an aspirant from reaching Samādhi.

28/06/2018

2.46 The posture (asana) for Yoga meditation should be steady, stable, and motionless, as well as comfortable, and this is the third of the eight rungs of Yoga.

(sthira sukham asanam)

2.47 The means of perfecting the posture is that of relaxing or loosening of effort, and allowing attention to merge with endlessness, or the infinite.

(prayatna shaithilya ananta samapattibhyam)

2.48 From the attainment of that perfected posture, there arises an unassailable, unimpeded freedom from suffering due to the pairs of opposites (such as heat and cold, good and bad, or pain and pleasure).

(tatah dvandva anabhighata)

Pattanjali at Swamiji

Yoga Sutras: Extensive practical explanations of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The Yoga Sutras succinctly outlines Yoga Meditation for Self-Realization. Patanjali created no new Yoga, but rather, systematized existing Yoga into the Yoga Sutras.

27/06/2018

"For people over fifty, it is enough to practice some of the easier and more useful asanas, as well as some of the pranayamas. Those who have been practicing for many years, however, can do any asana or pranayama without a problem.

21/06/2018

Where in the yoga sutras do we derived the term “VINYASA” from?
Ramaswami, a student of Krishnamacharya for 35+ years explained that this is related in two sutras from chapter two:

2.46 is the most famous sutra in the world (make that in my world): 2.46 Sthira Sukham Asanam, or: Sitted position should be comfortable and steady. AND
2.47 prayatna saithily anantasam apattibhyam, or: Effort should be accompanied by smooth breath