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Yoga
* YOGA: It is a spiritual discipline that uses the
body to express the emotions and feelings in a harmonic way. (Yocharya
Taunay Valle)
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A method of Yoga is all that it has a code, as example: Ashtanga Yoga (Patanjali), Hatha Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Mantra Yoga, etc. A style of Yoga is a variant of a method, as example: Iyengar Yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Power Yoga, Vini Yoga, Sivananda Yoga are variants of Hatha Yoga. A system of Yoga is composed by several methods of Yoga, for example: Yoga Integral Taunay, Holos Yoga, etc. The techniques of Yoga are elements used in a method, style or system of Yoga. Examples: asanas, pranayamas, kriyas, dharana, yoga nidra, etc. The specialties of Yoga are those that it unites Yoga with specific type as: therapy, sport, profession, etc. Examples: Yoga for asthmatic, Yoga for diabetics, sport Yoga, Yoga for executives, Yoga for pregnant woman, Yoga for children, etc. How many kinds of Yoga do exist?Now countless methods, styles and systems of Yoga exist. See some of them below:
Physical: increase of the breathing capacity, invigoration of the system imunológico, rhythmic breathing slower, larger muscular relax, elimination of the physical stress, balance of the glandular system, deep and restoring rest, etc. Emotional: balance of the emotions and feelings. Mental: larger concentration, self-esteem, self-confidence, mental relax, solemnity-knowledge. Spiritual: interior peace. What is the goal of Yoga? The goal of Yoga is the samadhi. Samadhi means a state of spiritual ecstasy. While in the traditional yoga (Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, etc.) this is the final goal, for Integral Yoga this is the first step. Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga doesn't try to turn this state of spiritual accomplishment far away from the terrestrial life, in an individual scale, but in a transformation of the conscience of everybody for the gone down of the Divine. Each experience with the external world, be that important or trivial, be addressed for the Divine and become in a step for the perfection.
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OM is considered the mantra of the mantras. In agreement with the
Indian Tradition everything in the universe emanates of the primordial
vibration of OM. In Latin " omni " it means everything, universal, and
that Latin root is present in several words of our Portuguese language,
for example: omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, among another.
Is Yoga religion? It is a great mistake to consider that yoga is a religion form. Yoga arrived to the impregnated occident of Hinduism, that, a lot of people believe that yoga is a Hinduist religion. To Indian, every religion is a type of yoga. In India, so much the Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism practices yoga. Like this any person, independent of its religion, its can practice yoga and to benefit of its practice. In fact, to practice yoga it is not necessary to believe in God, because yoga is not a subject of faith in certain dogmas, but amplification of the conscience to in an universal plan. The evangelical ones condemn the practice of the yoga, in spite of its healthy effects, because they are afraid of they lose its followerses. The practice of the yoga does that the apprentice has more discernment and it doesn't let to manipulate and to explore economically.
Is Yoga Physical Education? Yoga uses the body as a middle, not as an end. The corporal postures of Yoga (asanas) they are attitudes, opportunities of spiritual expression. This way, to do yoga as mere physical activity is not yoga.In Brazil, the Federal Council of Physical Education - CONFEF tries to reduce the yoga as a physical activity cannot to supervise and to do that the yoga professionals register in its Regional Council. That is a true aberration and its reveals the attempt of usurping a milenar culture.. In the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), in 2003, the Federal Public Ministry granted preliminary in favor of Yoga, Martial Arts and it Dances, so that the Regional Council of Physical Education it refrains to supervise or to intervene in those areas. In fact, a direct action exists in the Supreme Federal Tribunal of unconstitutional of the Law 9696/98 that regulated the creation of the Federal Council of Physical Education in Brazil.
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