Kriya Yoga

Kriya Yoga 

Kriya Yoga is a very specific system of yoga, which has survived to this day thanks to the works of Lahiri Mahasaya (born 1861). Yogananda denounced her to a wider audience through his book "Autobiography of a Yogi". This system consists of a number of yogic techniques that improve the spiritual development of practices and help him to achieve a deep state of calm and unity with God. 

Yogananda writes that the practice of Kriya Yoga mentally directs his life energy to the circular motion up and down the six spinal centers (medulla, or medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve signs of the zodiac that make up cosmic personality. Thirty seconds of motion energy sensitive to the vertebral column can move a man in his evolution. This thirty-second practice of Kriya Yoga is, the spiritual practices. 

According to Yogananda's Kriya Yoga was well known in ancient India, but at some point lost due to the sacrament of the clergy and the indifference of ordinary people. History of Lahiri Mahasaya received initiation in Kriya Yoga of Babaji, the immortal yogi Mahavatar in 1861, recounted in "Autobiography of a Yogi". In describing that memorable meeting Yogananda said that Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya: "Kriya Yoga, which I give you the world through the nineteenth century, today it is the same science that Krishna gave to Arjuna thousands of years ago, and which later became known to Patanjali and Christ" . 

Quoting the words of Krishna Yogananda wrote that Kriya Yoga is a discipline of body, mental control and meditation on Aum. When he says, perhaps through the practice of pranayama, control of expiration and inspiration. 

Kriya Yoga is a set of dynamic exercises. In fact, Kriya Yoga absorbed the techniques of Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga. Compilation of these techniques counterbalanced the task of harmonizing breath, the use of asanas, mudras and bandh (a variety of body positions and body parts) and the concentration of mind on the divine sound Aum. 

Thanks Lahiri Mahasaya Kriya Yoga soon spread throughout India. Yogananda - disciple of Swami Sri Yukteswar, who, in turn, was a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, who later brought Kriya Yoga to the United States and Europe in the twentieth century. Since then it has spread around the world under the leadership of many gurus, many of which have positioned themselves as the descendants of Lahiri Mahasaya. 

The best-known disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya were Swami Sri Yukteswar, Sri Panchanon Bhattacharya, Swami Pranabananda, Kebalananda Swami, Swami Keshabananda and Bhupendranat Shanval (Shanval Mahasaya).

Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga 

Kundalini yoga is a physical and meditative practice, consisting of elements designed to train the mind, senses and body to create a connection between mind and body. Kundalini yoga focuses on the mental and spiritual growth, as well as the potential of the body to mature, have a special mission for the role of the spine and the endocrine system in the understanding of yogic awakening. 

Kundalini Yoga concentrates on psychic centers (or chakras) of the body to accumulate spiritual force known as kundalini energy. 

Kundalini is the potential form of prana (life force), which is dormant in the body of every person. It is portrayed as a curled snake (in literary translation from the Sanskrit "Kundalini" means "that which minimized the rings, although some insist that the transfer should be a" lock the Beloved ') lying at the base of the spine, which can be awakened through spiritual and individual practitioners. 

The practice of kundalini yoga consists of a series of exercises for the body, expressive movements and utterances, characteristic of rituals, rules respiration and concentration levels. But none of these components of practice should not be perceived by future yogis as simple stretching exercises or the type of gymnastics. 

Shannahoff-Khalsa describes some of the techniques of Kundalini yoga in its "Protocol Kundalini Yoga" (2004). Most of the techniques are characterized by such features as pose with crossed feet, of the spine (usually - straight), different methods of control of breathing, use of mantras, closed eyes and concentrating the mind (usually on the sound of their own breath). The author focuses on the fact that these techniques should not be taken as substitution of medical consultations and medical treatment. 

Kundalini yoga is a relatively new phenomenon in the West. It was first presented to the United States in 1969, when Yogi Bhajan came here from India and began to train teachers. Usually it is quoted with the statement "I did not come to collect uchenieov, I came to create teachers. Like other types of yoga, Kundalini yoga links movement with breath. Main, what distinguishes it is a direct focus on moving energy through the chakras, stimulating the energy of the lower chakras up to the higher chakras. Chakras are energy centers, making a total of seven, parallel to the vertebral spine from the coccyx, and finishing top. In Kundalini Yoga there and eighth chakra, which is an electromagnetic field, sometimes called the aura. It is believed that mangers strengthened and purified through the practice of Kundalini Yoga. The system awakens the energy of the chakras and passes it along the nerve channels connecting them. 

Despite the fact that this system is tied to the physical plane, the main benefits come from its internal practices. Kundalini Yoga is called the "yoga of consciousness", because it awakens the kundalini, which provides an unlimited potential that is present in every person. 

When the uncertain potential energy wakes up in the body, it stimulates the upper centers, giving the individual enhanced intuition, purity of mind and the potential of creative forces. For this reason, the kundalini in ruling circles was considered a dangerous practice and its concept in the course of history was kept secret. Knowledge transfer personal teacher to student only after a lengthy initiation process that determines the level of consciousness of the pupil. Yogi Bhajan spent many years traveling through the Himalayan mountains, to find the hermits, saints and yogis, collecting their individual exercises Kriyas and pranayyamy before openly began to teach in the West. 

Before be represented a broad audience of Kundalini is a term describing a movement of energy after the practice of any form of traditional hatha yoga and pranayamy.

Sahaja Yoga

 Sahaja Yoga

Sahaja Yoga (Sahaja in this context means "born with", and yoga - "Union") is a form of meditation created by Nirmala Srivastava, more commonly known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, and the followers just call her mother. They believe that it is the embodiment of Adi Shakti, the primary divine force. The term Sahaja Yoga is also used as the title of world organization Sahaja Yoga Vishwa Nirmala Dharma, "new religious movement", which she founded in 1970 in Nargole, India. 

Practice and related organizations has grown in India and spread throughout the world, and now their meditation centers can be found everywhere. Comprehension practice Sahaja Yoga was made free for all concerned, but the organization itself claims that the result of lessons Sahaja Yoga is a quick self-realization and the awakening of kundalini. The practice of Sahaja Yoga taught prisoners in Italy and the United States to help them achieve social, psychological and spiritual recovery. 

Sahaja Yoga teaches that in the subtle body, there are seven major energy centers or chakras, which can be sbalansirovannaymi through the awakening of kundalini, usually dormant energy that exists in every human being. In the tradition of Sahaja Yoga Self-realization is the first encounter with reality, or the awakening of kundalini. When attained self-realization, one can feel the cool breeze on his crown. If there is a feeling of warmth or heat, the body has not reached an appropriate balance. 

Sahaja Yoga offers a simple method to achieve this state compared with the traditional practice of hatha yoga, where the basis of the method lies in the physical postures and breathing exercises. Sahaja Yoga says that besides our physical body, there is also spiritual: fine system, consisting of channels (Nadi_ and energy centers (chakras), which affect our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual harmony. Each chakra own different qualities some of which may remain secret. Once the kundalini awakens and rises through the center of these, the quality at the same time begin to appear. 

Along with balancing the seven chakras, Sahaja Yoga is also recommended to balance the left and right nadi, it is the way of energy. Throughout the yogic system, there are 72 thousand nadis, of which there are basically three: Ida Nadi (or left sympathetic nervous system), Pingala Nadi (Right sympathetic nervous system) and Sushumha Nadi (parasympathetic nervous system). 

Some of Sahaja yoga meditation on the image of the founder of the school, as this is additional help in his focus on the awakening of kundalini. Dipping feet in the tub with salt water or walking on the sea - it is also one of the techniques of Sahaja Yoga, which helps the meditator to gain balance. 

Meditation on Sahaja Yoga has proved to be effective on the part of many diseases, including asthma, epilepsy and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, some of these positive indicators have been recorded scientifically. Sahaja Yoga Meditation has also proved more productive than other types of meditation in treating depression, depressed emotional states and lack of appetite. 

Organization Sahaja Yoga supports a hospital in Bombay, India, which uses specialized techniques. Hospital justifies its fame place successful treatment of diseases such as hypertension, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis. 

Sri Nirmala Shrivastya also developed a diet for a healthy liver. White cane sugar, white rice, yogurt, ginger, fruits and vegetables called "cool" liver. Alcohol, fried foods, red meat, fish, whipped cream and chocolate are among the search, which "warms up" the liver, so their number should be kept to a minimum

Agni Yoga

Agni Yoga 

Agni Yoga (also called "Living Ethics") is the esoteric doctrine based Russian artist Nicholas Roerich and his wife Helena Roerich. Inspired by the Vedic tradition, as well as Buddhism and the works of EP Blavatskoy and the Theosophical Society, Roerich had issued a series of books "Agni Yoga" In the early twenties of the last century Roerichs got a lot of fans in New York, where they built a museum of art in Russia, where their teaching was quite significant, and in India, where they away from the world. 

In Sanskrit the word Agni means "fire" and is the name of the Vedic deities. In the use of Roerich, it refers to the spiritual fire of the heart or mental energy, which is considered as the main force, which is built all my life, which should be clear and cultivate. The word "yoga" in this context refers not to the known physical practices of hatha yoga, and any of the schools of philosophy of bhakti yoga and raja yoga, but rather a meaningful life, guided by the teachings of the great teachers in their daily life and ministry. 

Theologians say that the books of Agni Yoga is understood as a separate course of Theosophy. After the works of Elena Blavatskoy theosophical movement split into a number of separate groups, each of which said that its board has approved the secret masters. Agni Yoga in this respect remained neutral and separated from the movement as a whole, recognizing in his teaching of Christ, along with other teachers, such as Buddha, Moriya, Sergius Radonezh etc. 

According to the teachings of Agni Yoga divine energy is transmitted to humans through the Eucharist. Cup filled with liquid ritual symbolizes the heart is filled with supreme inspiration. 

Despite the fact that most of the books and teachings of yoga are international, without being tied to a specific territory, some scholars are Agni-yoga as a purely Russian phenomenon, imbued with patriotism. On the other hand the concept of "new nation" referred to here is sometimes associated with Shambhala. 

In the writings of Agni yoga divine energy associated with notions such as vibration, electricity, new rays, radio waves, magnetic or etheric world, as the antagonism of the world in which we live. Numerous discussions were centered around the spiritual energy and its avatars. The source of it considered "Distant Worlds", which can be interpreted as a reasonable world, or simply parallel forms of existence. 

In any case, the energy of these worlds, according to the teachings of Agni Yoga, a person can bring healing and enlightenment, and our world, in turn, must prepare for such a "high frequency". Some signs that the interaction is human society, where money does not exist, as well as racial differences, but power belongs to a world government. 

In the books on the Agni Yoga, addressed the theme of the spirit army. Practitioners should be a warrior and be fearless in battle. Another constant theme of the book is a "new church", "new country" or "new world".

Yoga nidra

Yoga nidra 

Yoga-nidra in literary translation sounds like a "dream yoga". This term refers to the technique used to prepare the mind and body before reaching the deeper levels of consciousness and concentration to meditation. Be that as it may, yoga nidra regularly practiced in independent form as a daily relaxation techniques. Practitioners say that half an hour of yoga nidra replaces up to three hours of normal sleep, but still completely replace the dream yoga nidra is not worth it, because the body and mind still takes some time habitual leisure. 

This dream yoga is a state of consciousness, when the yogi is connected to the Divine energy, staying in contact with the whole cosmos. This energy is beyond time and space, pozvalyaya yoga to see the past, present and future. At this time, the Yogi can also get acquainted with their past lives. Through yoga nidra yoga can work on karma, as the purity of consciousness at this point allows the purification of the subconscious. The subconscious mind at this point is cleared by means of special prayers, known as shankapala. Experienced yoga use yoga-nidra for astral travel, and the highest level of this condition leads to samadhi. By the way, yoga nidra is not to be confused with a variety of self-hypnosis techniques that do not have anything to do with it. 

Sages and yogis yoga-nidra has been known for thousands of years. The Upanishads (Madukhya Upanishad) describes three states: wakefulness, sleep and deep sleep. Yoga nidra is a state of conscious concentration in a deep sleep, which in Madukhya Upanishads called Prajna. This third of four levels of consciousness expressed by the mantra Aum, the sound presented by M. Condition Yogi-nidra is outside the visions and sensations. As the state of conscious deep sleep, yoga nidra is universal and can not belong only to some specific tradition or teachers. 

However, some teachers and schools have focused on yoga-nidra more than others, have more experience in the practical training of followers. Paramyogeshvar Sri Devpuridzhi is one of the first modern proponents of this practice, taught since 1880. During his travels in the Himalayas, Sri Devpudzhi met, among others, by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, which is well known in Europe and is filed yoga-nidra nkotorym yogis and swamis. 

Swami Satyananda began to popularize the practice of yoga nidra about forty years ago. He described her relationship with the ancient tantric practice, called "Niassa, where each part of the body treated his own mantra in Sanskrit, and during her meditation mentally immersed in a particular area of the body. 

With extensive travel and teaching vseminrnymi Mahamandaleshvar Maheshvaranandy Paramahamsa Swami and Swami Satyananda, Yoga-nidra gradually spread to India, Europe, Australia and the United States, transformed in the system: satyaananda yoga and yoga in daily life. Swami Rama on the Yoga-nidra still continued with the Himalayan Institute of several of his former students. 

The form of the practice of yoga nidra, taught by Swami Satyananda includes eight well-defined phases: internalization, Sankalpa, the rotation of consciousness, breath control, a manifestation of opposites, creative visualization, Sankalpa and externalization. Yoga nidra can practice tolkol under the supervision of an experienced teacher and mastering the practice gradually. In the deeper stages of practice may slow breathing and life processes, which resemble lethargy.

Jnana Yoga

Jnana Yoga 

Jnana yoga is one of the four main paths of yoga (jnana, bhakti, raja and karma), according to the philosophy of yoga and Vedanta. From Sanskrit jnana means "knowledge" and is usually interpreted as "true knowledge of ourselves." In vedantiyskoy school of Hinduism, to know himself as Brahman (supreme transcendental) this is Jnana. Recognize that man is Brahman, pure consciousness, non-involved, non-active and contemplative calm - this is Jnana. 

In the Bhagavad-Gita Sri Krishna says that jnana is from a reliable understanding kshetra (field of activity relates to the body) and kshetradzhny (an expert body, ie the soul). Next on the text of Krishna emphasizes on the fact that anyone who aspires to a transcendental consciousness, must understand the difference between these two concepts. 

Jnana Yoga says that there are four basic ways to achieve liberation. This: 

- Viveka (discrimination): the ability to find the difference between the real and eternal (Brahman) and the unreal and temporary (the rest of the universe); 

-Vairagya (dispassion): after the practice of discrimination a person must be able to separate himself from all time; 

Shad-Sampath (six benefactors): calm (control of mind), dama (control of senses), uparati (denial of social activity, which is not the duty), titiksha (resistance), Sraddha (faith) and samadhana (perfect concentration). 

Yogic knowledge differs from knowledge entsiklopelicheskogo, so to achieve it must also be some way to go. Jnana Yoga is the way to achieve awareness of the laws of the universe. In the practice of jnana yoga is the main tool for meditation and reading of the Holy Scriptures (not only characteristic of Hinduism, as belonging to any religion). 

Jnana yoga practitioners there is little in the western world, what is most interesting in the East, they too are not so much. The fact that this is the path that has the least external manifestations, because of what he often preferred to hatha yoga, bhakti yoga, or Sahaja yoga.

Karma Yoga

Karma Yoga 

Karma yoga, also known as Buddhi Yoga, the "doctrine of" baziruescheesya on the Bhagavad-Gita - the sacred Sanskrit scripture of Hinduism. Karma yoga is one of the four pillars of yoga as such, and focuses on the commitment to duty (dharma) while remaining impartial in relation to all the worldly. It is believed that man can attain moksha (liberation), or the love of God (bhakti) by performing their duties without a shadow of selfishness in order to meet the Creator. Karma Yoga is an optional element of such systems, originating from classical yoga, as Natya Yoga. 

Bhagavad Gita gives a summary of the process of the practice of karma yoga. By itself, the Bhagavad-Gita is the head of a more extensive work, known as the Mahabharata, where there is a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his friend and charioteer - Krishna during the events of dynastic wars. The impulse to communicate is served Ardouny, as he experiences the loss of morale because of the grief and loss that he should suffer, as both warring camps, there are his family and friends. In response, Krishna sheds light on a number of philosophical systems and practices of yoga (including Karma Yoga) through which the fight could still be under the principles of righteousness and justice. 

The word "karma" comes from the Sanskrit kri, meaning "to do", so that in its most basic sense, karma means action, and yoga - union. Thus, karma yoga literary translation as a way of unity through action. It is described as a path of action, reflection and expression, when the practitioner behaves according to his duty (dharma), not recognizing their own selfish desires, likes or dislikes. This action without attachment to the results of actions. 

Krishna describes this work as taking place without expectations, motives or rejection of the fruit. Thus, it can clear the mind of man and make the latter quite objective. He argues that there is no need to remain in the external state of loneliness or inaction, to practice the spiritual life, as the state action or inaction, above all, coordinated intelligence. 

To achieve perfection in life, Krishna speaks of the need to control all the desires of the mind and the tendency to enjoy the pleasures derived through the senses. The practice of Karma Yoga in everyday life makes a man healthy through action, meditation and devotion, making it more acute his mind, developing the intuitive power of knowledge and transcendent consciousness. 

Like many other philosophies of Hinduism, karma yoga is based on a shared understanding of karma and reincarnation (samsara). It is believed that a person is born with the positive and negative karma, which he accumulates in previous lives, and that push e th at certain things in this life. This process continues for as long as the person does not get a zero balance in which karma is not at all, then that person gets released. 

Shankarcharya said that during the practice of karma yoga, the mind is cleared. Thus, he describes the karma-yoga as a way to jnana-yoga, and jnana yoga already leads as a result of human-to Moksha or implementation. 

The Hindu holy Hindu Saint Mata Amritanandamayi says this: "Beauty and the attractiveness of unselfish love and service should not disappear from the face of the earth. The world must know that life in devotion is possible, as well as life, inspired by love and service to humanity. Meditation and studying the scriptures are two sides of one coin. The inscription on this coin is the unselfish service, and this is what gives it real value. Our sympathy and an act of self-sacrifice leads us to the depths of truth. Through the impersonal service, we can uproot the roots of the ego, which obscures Ya dispassionate, impersonal action leads to liberation. This action is not just a job, it - karma yoga.

Integral Yoga

Integral Yoga 

Integral Yoga or Purna Yoga (translated from Sanskrit as a complete yoga), sometimes called Yoga Supermind This name refers to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo on the integration of all parts of the T here with the Divine, and treatment of all affected components to a state of harmony of the higher consciousness . 

Sri Aurobindo founded and established his own school in the early twentieth century as a way to find the integral of the Divine, at the end of which every man freed from ignorance and its consequences, in order to grasp the truth that is beyond human consciousness. He describes the nature and practice of Integral Yoga in his work "Synthesis of Yoga". Title clearly says that his yoga is yoga of synthesis, designed to harmonize parts of karma, jnana, and bhakti yoga, as described in the Bhagavad-Gita. It can be considered synthetic product of Vedanta and Tantra, as well as Western and Eastern approaches to spirituality. 

Many types of yoga, except, perhaps, Natya Yoga, develop only a single aspect of life and the ultimate goal of liberation and the state of transcendence. The aim is Integral Yoga is the transformation of all beings. Because of this, using different practices: physical, vital, mental, emotional and spiritual. Means of transformation of these components is described in detail by Sri Aurobindo, who formulates it all in his integral philosophy. The aim of Integral Yoga is the transformation of all beings, and no, that something is left unattended. 

From other mystical ways of the school of Sri Aurobindo distinguishes the recognition of the need to change the individual and the surrounding world. Thus, the integral Yoga is a two-track: in the foreground is a complete change and transformation of internal and external nature, and the second (not second in importance) spiritual realization of God or the transcendent or the Enlightenment. 

Sri Aurobindo believed this mental consciousness rights transit step in the evolution of the earth, and our civilization - only a step towards the greatest experience and opportunities Supermind. Sri Aurobindo believed Supermind principle, able to organize everything and to coordinate. This consciousness is enclosed in all creation, he believed, and sooner or later, one of the following stages of terrestrial evolution will manifest itself in the outside world. 

In integral psychology of Sri Aurobindo and his entire metaphysics, space is described only in two dimensions or differences. On the one hand suschestvueyut physical, vital, mental and higher transpersonal realities. At the same time, there are manifestations of an external entity, the inner essence and profound mental entities. So all this horizontal and vertical hierarchy of existence was to be transformed through integral yoga.

The essence of bhakti yoga

The essence of bhakti yoga  

In Sanskrit, "Bhakti" means the spiritual attitude of bhakti, a devotee called people to God, God himself, presented in the form of personality. Very bhakti yoga is the real embodiment of human love for God, and the ways of expressing it historically, there were several that led to the fact that today distinguish the nine forms of the embodiment of bhakti yoga. If a devotee to God people wish to know the supreme love for God, he must resort to one of the ways to achieve this. So, you can choose the path of Sravana, which translates as "Hearing God", but the essence of this bhakti-yoga is to study the scriptures of the Hindus, which speak about God.

Lotus Pose

In the system of hatha yoga there is a lot of various exercises, but the most famous of them can be regarded as the lotus position, which they know even those familiar with yoga only hearsay. In order to pose a lotus out most faithful, it should be exactly sit down and stretch my legs, then slowly put the right foot on left thigh, and then perform an identical operation on his left foot. To insure proper implementation of all these movements, it is necessary to draw attention to the location of your heels. Pouso be considered complete only when they relate to each other on the outside and touch the inside of the lower abdomen.

Dependence of the loads from the age of yoga

Hatha yoga, both in principle and any other type of physical activity, you can do almost from infancy, gradually increasing the number of exercises. When a child comes 2 years, it can be gradually accustomed to the long-time walks, to games that require constant movement. With 6 years of age the child should continue to play, for jogging, hiking, but can gradually begin to study some breathing exercises, in addition, should actively explore the lightest variation of the dynamic type of exercise, and exercise equilibrium type and the lotus position. 

When little yoga turns 10 years old, he continues to use the acquired knowledge, known him to engage in exercises, but care should be taken to start swimming lessons and more intensive work with the breath. In the interval from 13 to 16 years, the most relevant lessons are exercises that allow people to develop physical abilities such as strength, endurance and speed, to a new level should be removed control of the breath, the yogi must be able to perform almost all dynamic exercises, as well as actually be able to perform the lotus position. 

The most active period covers the age span of the young yogi from 17 to 30 years, while in which he should be able to perform all possible exercises of hatha yoga, to be able to stay in all postures and breathing exercises to carry out any difficulty. In the next ten years of life yogi must keep his physical form, but it is recommended to improve the results in one area of hatha yoga. The next decade is characterized by the same level of stress, but requires more walking. Each subsequent year should not affect the physical abilities of yogis, especially if they comply with the requirements of ever-increasing amount of time spent on the street.

Legends about Yoga-alchemist

Legends about Yoga-alchemist 

On the acquisition of "diamond body" was sent to one of the types of yoga, Tantric Vajrayana, the essence of this was to acquire permanent and incorruptible body is preparing for the final "transformation", Hatha yoga to strengthen his state of immortality. Tantric processes, as such hold in the body, which is called "thin" it is the one with the cosmos and at the same pantheon, in turn, is deified. The essence of the above is that the student had to survive a real thin body death and resurrection, it should have happened after the end of the cycle of destruction and restoration of the universe. Therefore, this process resembles alchemy, the process of disintegration and reconstruction, although it is a variant of Western alchemy. Yoga, like the alchemist has some kind of transformation of matter. However, the matter in India was completed process pakrita or shaky, the Maya called them arhitep-mag. 

Among the traditional Siddh is completed and this part of the transformation process tantric yoga, the essence of the following: continuation of alchemy it is the age-old way of tantric yoga, which seized on the one hand the secrets of Sakti, ie imitating her transformation to a prime speaking skills and knowledge to transform ordinary metals into gold, on the other hand Vajrayana has a "diamond body" and Siddha-deha hatha yoga have no strong differences from the "body of glory" of the alchemists of the Western lands. The role of the transfiguration of the flesh is given to the worshiper's body like a god creating (Divya-deha), "body wisdom" is a worthy receptacle for only him, to those who "liberated in this life, it is called (Jivan-mukti). Strangers who visited India to feel the unity of yoga and alchemy but they were not alone, його-alchemical folklore to develop in the Indian people, combining myths about the elixir of immortality and the treatment of metals has turned a single myth about yoga-Mare.

Immortals yoga

Immortals yoga 

Most people at one time in my life heard the word "immortal yogis. Only a few people managed to meet at least one. I have devoted the time and trouble to to find - whether they exist. 
Until I met 8 of them. I arbitrarily set 300 years as the minimum duration of life in the same physical body as a standard, as an estimate of such an unusual class of people. . This is an 8 immortal yogis, both men and women, their age from 380 to 130 000 years. Three of them retain the address of his place on the planet Earth for over 2000 years. 

Once I met Rama and Sita in the Netherlands. They come and go at will. I am in awe looking at the relationship that continued for 130 000 years. 
There are at least several thousand immortal yogis on the planet Earth. Most of them live in the Himalayas. A group of them always appears at the meeting Khumbu Mela in India. 
These yoga absolutely committed to improving their ability to learn and accumulation of great energy of age of age. But self-justification and unconsciousness can occur at any time, causing the decline and death. Shiva Purana, which is the oldest scripture that describes the millions of years of human history, contains many stories about this and that type of human character, which is required to practice the presence of God in Truth, Simplicity and Love. 

Immortals of yoga by his example demonstrates that the practice of the Presence of God in Truth, Simplicity and Love is a timeless condition for infinite health and vitality. 
One of the things that struck me when I saw these the wise, simple and great people, was that most of the people who live near them, have little interest in becoming immortal yogis, or not at all interested in this. It is still surprising to me. 

This problem of self-evaluation? 
This is a crude materialism? 
It is the spiritual darkness of the human soul? 
This lack of imagination? 
The idea is to be master of itself seems too difficult? 
Obviously, this is limited thinking, but why most people are so limited in its assessment of human potential and their beliefs about their own potential? 

Yoga is the stereotype of the immortal image of a hermit, practicing celibacy and living in a cave, but the immortal yogis are as men and women, and traditionally, according to the Hindu Holy Scriptures, the life of a householder with a wife and family, is an appropriate way to achieve liberation, and skill . For example, Shiva, Rama, Vayshista Babaji many immortal bodies have wives and children. 

Spiritual liberation, and skill in fact mean the same thing. Liberation means complete healing of emotional intelligence and, through this, the possession of a healthy body. Liberation means to be not born of the Eternal Spirit and to include the mind and body in adult life eternal, endless energy. Liberation means to live, fully conscious I am staying in, in the Guru - ie in our personal relationship with the Infinite Mind. 

Mastery means - to eliminate the consciousness of the victim and cause of our goals and desires. It means to live in bliss, except when you deliberately heal someone suffering from pain. It means to be free from death, as appropriate. This means sintegrirovannost spirit, mind and body and possess the ability to heal the body. 
However, the skill has several levels: spiritual enlightenment begins with the following understanding - energy becomes to what she thinks! 

1. Selecting physical immortality is probably the first level. 
It includes a complete philosophy of life from a physical standpoint 
immortality rather than a mortal perspective (perspective, focused on death). 
2. Awareness of the energy body. 
3. Learning how to clean energy body: mantras, practices with the elements earth, air, water, fire, love 
4. Nothing can replace 30 years of spiritual practices: Rebirthing, fire, starvation, etc. 

Perform a sufficient number of years of practice in order to really be in the forefront of the process of spiritual purification in such a way that the healing of emotional energy pollution faster than you earn it. For some people, an important step is to become a vegetarian or give up cigarettes or alcohol. 

4. Be in harmony with the principle of guru 
5. Choosing a lifestyle that supports spiritual growth and mastery. 
6. Become knowledgeable perfect image of the great scriptures of all religions and the great literature of samples of humanity, especially the Shiva Purana. 
7. Creating a spiritual community as a personal media support. 
8. Establishing a successful relationship with Babaji, the eternal Father in human form, and to allow your friends to communicate with him on this path. 
9. Dissolution of death wish, which you inherited from your family tradition. 
10. Healing of senile diseases. Old age - this is the last exam for the human condition - you or pass it - or go to another world. This is the main obstacle to physical immortality. Most people give up and die more often than follow the path of personal improvement. We would prefer that someone else did it for us. That is why we must transform the helplessness, hopelessness, infantile consciousness, birth trauma, cancer awareness, etc. 
11. Shiva Kalpa is the main ritual (way) rejuvenation - 12-year-old course. 
12. The actual healing of birth trauma, fetal and infaltilnogo consciousness, parental disapproval syndrome, unconscious desire for death, inherited from family and from past lives and informed use of force the human mind. 
13. Find satisfaction in career, prosperity and civil liability. 
All these items relate to improving the human condition, the following is our divine potential. 
14. Development of transfiguration - the materialization and dematerialization of the body at will. Healing of emotional intelligence can take anywhere from 50 to 100 years if we are working with this all the time. This is our main work during the first century. 
15. Experiments with teleportation, astral projection, levitation, etc. 
16. Control of food, sleep and sex - 40-day fast without food or water. 
17. The development of conscious relationship with the Sun, Moon, Planet Earth and its environment, etc. 
18. Controlling organs of the body instead of being controlled by them. Be able to heal the body and make him invulnerable to wounds, disease and death. 
19. Master the million Yogi, which are needed in order to create the human body directly from the Spirit. Without this ability, the origin of the human body is a relative theory. However, evolution can begin at any point and move in any direction. 

In everyday life people show that they can suspend the natural bodily processes, manage, change them and cause them all sorts of wonderful variations, as the benefit and harm. Our creative energy now can continuously penetrate into the laws and processes of nature and change them with pure intentions. Life becomes more stress-free when we do not need a supernatural energies and live in harmony with our common divine and human nature. This is good - to live in peaceful harmony with the laws of nature and have no need to use supernatural forces. 
20. I met my immortal yogis highest level of skill, apparently, is reached after 500 years. Despite this, the father of Rama lived more than 60 000 years without achieving spiritual mastery. 

Eating from the Tree of Life, which means the practice of the Divine Presence, is still and constantly a source of Eternal Life. God is the source of wisdom, peace, pleasure, mastery, and the materialization of eternal life. Devotion to God is the source of eternal science of personal vitality. 
The choice to become immortal master yogi makes you immortal in real time. The trick is to remain immortal. This obviously includes the mastery of this choice in the Eternal Now. It is not difficult, it is in harmony with our Divine Nature. We just have to remember - always and without effort - that we are born the Divine Child High God. We - this is his favorite ideas in his / her mind.

Origin of Yoga

Origin of Yoga 

The figure, found during archaeological excavations in the area Mogendzho-Daro in the Indus Valley, attracted the attention of scientists to the yogi, or, as it is called "proto-Shiva". This image Pashupati (from Sanskrit "lord of animals") is a figure sitting in the traditional yoga pose with legs crossed, resting, relaxed hands on his knees. I found the figure of sir John Marshall and his team - they are all sure that it is a prototype of the god Shiva, and describe her as a man with three faces, seated in a yogic pose with crossed feet. And yet, these thoughts are not quite co-operating with the modern academic concepts. 

In Indian philosophy, yoga is any of the six orthodox philosophical schools. Philosophical system of Yoga is closely connected with the school samkhi. Yogic school, as explained by Patanjali, adopted the philosophy and metaphysics samkhi, but by itself it is more theistic, adding to the twenty-five elements samkhi divine union. The parallels between yoga and samkhey so obvious that Max Muller said: "in a popular fashion statement, the two differ in both philosophy and with samkhya samkhya without the Divine. 

The founder of formal philosophy of yoga is considered the sage Patanjali. Despite the fact that he attributed to yoga sutras (which sometimes are called Yoga Sutras of Patanjali), some experts on Hinduism says that the work of Patanjali is a collection of fragments and traditions of texts dating from the second or third century AD. Other scientists lead a broader period of time, an exciting period from 100 BC 500 years BC 

Further development took place within the yoga of the Indian subcontinent for centuries. During this time, formed six major ways to achieve enlightenment and liberation from the shackles of the material world. Later, it spread in such a form is already in all countries of the East, which was closely associated with the practice of Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism. In the seventeenth-eighteenth century, yoga has become one of the major practices in Tibet, as well as in Muslim countries. 

When India became a colony of Britain, some British scientists interested in issues of yoga. In the eighties of the nineteenth century, even the first note out of one of the British journalists, dedicated to yoga, but the spread of the new philosophy has not received. 

Only in the late nineteenth century, Vivekananda brought this philosophy to the United States and, later, Paramhansa Yogananda during visits to the United States and Europe, opened to the Western world that a system of understanding ourselves and the universe. Life of the great teachers of that time was reflected in the literature and studies of future generations. 

But its heyday teaching yoga reached only in the twentieth century, when everywhere began to open up educational and research centers. In India itself there are an infinite number of them, but the greatest authority enjoys yoga Cultural Center in New Delhi. 

Start the yogic path in Russia are traditionally tied to the seventy years of the last century, although the notion of "Agni Yoga" came within the teachings of the Roerich before the mid-twentieth century. This time, the assimilation of knowledge gained by those who spent many years in the cradle of yoga, with Russian realities, as a consequence, the resulting product was much different from the yogic philosophical schools of other countries. Distribution of yoga in Russia associated with names such as Boris Leonidovich Smirnov, Vasily V. Brody, Zubkov, Koltunov and many others.

Yoga - what does it consist?

Yoga - what does it consist? 

Classical yoga is divided into eight parts, each of which represents an element of mental, physical and spiritual exercises to achieve harmony. Four of the eight have to deal with mental and physical exercises that are designed to coordinate the mind and body. The remaining four are working with different degrees of meditation. There are six basic types of yoga, which are designed to achieve the same goal, but in different ways: Hatha, Raja, Bhakti, Jnana, and Tantra. Hata Yoga is perhaps the most well-known system, it consists of about two hundred postures, movements and breathing techniques, which lead the body in order, making it healthy. The philosophy of yoga says that breathing is the most important engine of health, as breathing is the largest resource of prana or vital force. In hatha yoga uses pranayyama that in literary translation sounds like "breath control". Initially, hatha yoga was developed as a system that would make the body healthy so that people are not distracted by the problem of the body during spiritual self-improvement. 

There are several different schools of hatha yoga. The most numerous are the Iyengar Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga. The first was founded B.K.S. Iyengar, who is considered one of the greatest innovators of the case. Here we use the techniques of hatha yoga, but his gaze is directed at them from a different angle. This type of training is good in the role of physical therapy, in addition are allowed to use additional devices to make it easier for people to take the necessary provisions. Ashtanga yoga is hatha yoga, is interpreted as a dance. 

In other types of yoga you can see the realization of other ideas that are typical for this practice. Raja yoga is for enlightenment and disciplining the mind through meditation. The idea of this philosophy lies in the simplicity and non-attachment to the world of desire and material objects. The focus of karma yoga put on charity, service to others, lack of aggression and violence as a means to achieve peace. Bhakti yoga is the path of devotion and love for God or a Universal Spirit. Jnana Yoga is the practice of knowledge and wisdom. And, finally, Tantra Yoga is the path to self-fulfillment through religious rituals. 

Some yoga classes, depending on the school and teachers can be as easy and quite time-consuming workouts. During the study pulse, heart rhythm and breathing may be slowed down so that observers believe that a man and not breathing. 

The greatest success can be achieved by practicing yoga daily. Yoga should be an exercise that lasts a lifetime. The longer a practitioner is engaged in self-improvement, the more conversant he becomes. Basic items can enhance strength, flexibility and good health for a very short period of time, but the years pass, to reach in this case the depth of perfection - that encourages many people during yoga practice. 

The best way to learn yoga under the guidance of an experienced teacher, but the basic aspects can be studied independently, based on the knowledge gained from books, which today can be found fairly good summary. Yoga can also act as a program of therapeutic value, but it is more typical for study abroad.

Detail Utthita Parshvakonasany

Utthita Parshvakonasana - "straight side corner. This position belongs to a variety of "standing" asanas with an assault, when one leg is straight and the other - toward which, indeed, do the exercise - is bent at right angles. In this upper part of thigh is strictly parallel to the floor, and the section legs from knee to ankle - perpendicular. Situation feet - standart. 

The trunk leans in the direction of attack, as if the same name lying sideways on the floor parallel to the surface of the thigh. Both blades are again leaning against a vertical surface, ie, chest plane deployed in the legs. Lower arm rests on the floor with his hand or fingers, being established outside of the foot, but not near the inner side of the foot. Bock, more or less regard to the legs of the same name, but in fact the degree of this contact depends on the length of hands, which have all individually. 

Attacks in this Asana, we must maintain an effort thigh bent legs. Those who have good joints and a good stretch the potential to evade the necessary work in this position, and they are carrying out an attack, fail, settle at the hip to the knee of an acute angle. This scheme is very similar to the posture required, but only for an inexperienced look. 

Muscles of the thigh legs, which is located in the attacks, while switched off, they generally stop working, the body "hangs" in the knee joint. Is a mistake. "Standing" postures are not in order to escape from the payload, but rather - to find the maximum force offered by this form and remain in it, completely disabling the nervous component of physical effort and the muscles that are in the process do not participate. 

In asanas, performed with an assault, there is one small, but sensible stratagem, which told during the seminar in Moscow in the late eighties Faek Biria. To load the muscles bent his legs felt so strongly and does not violate a state of consciousness, it is necessary to comply with the so-called "Hinch". If we have a look at the foot resting on the floor free legs, then it is obvious: where there is growth, more to the inner side markedly favor tendon, which then goes up on the tibia. "Hinch" - part of the tendon, its interval from the end of the lifting of the foot to the place where the leg becomes purely vertical. Actually, "Hinch" or "Inch" is nothing like "inch", which is about three centimeters in length referred to a segment of the tendon. 

And if we are to some tension up from the floor toe, then this section of the tendon is strained, as if becoming the "iron". Job thigh bent legs ceases to be felt, and then, subject to the "Hinch" may hold the asana with an assault and how to be completely effortless. But this does not mean that they disappeared and no longer affect the body and perception. If using "Hinch", overexposing asana, in which there is an attack, do not even get a sense of the breath go astray after you complete the pose, already at rest, so to use the technique to be mentioned is reasonable. 

A hand placed on top, pulled out and also with the wall along with the same name by the upper shoulder blade, is both a continuation of the line of the upper side. Should be turning his head up from under the hand to contemplate the ceiling. When I say "look at the ceiling or on the thumb, which is at the top" - this does not mean that we should go there to stare at whatever cost, twisting his neck and eyes, which, by the way, if possible, better to close. You just need to observe the position of the head with a rotation of its extent available, without appreciable voltage 

Contraindications to this position there but overall, contained in the chapter on "Asana". The effect is the same as that of the "triangle", with the only difference that the change ranges of the joints. Reverse the same version of this exercise gives an unforgettable experience for beginners and is called Parivritta Parsvakonasana - "flip-side angle posture".
The effect of the practice Utthita Parshvakonasany 

This asana tones up the ankles, knees and hips. It corrects the defect in the calves and thighs, the breast develops, reduces body fat in the waist and pelvis, removes sciatica and arthritis. Also increases intestinal peristalsis and facilitates defecation.

Utthita Parshvakonasany

1. Stand in .

2. On inspiration jump spread your legs to a distance of 120-130 cm Pull the hands apart. 

3. Turn right foot out at 90 °, and left a little inside. Squeeze your knees and hips. 

4. Bend right leg at the knee up until thigh and calf did not amount to a right angle. Right thigh - parallel to the floor, and lower leg - perpendicular. Inhale one or two times. 

5. Exhale and turn the body right. Put right hand on the floor beside the right foot. 

6. Pull the left hand over the ear, rotate the neck and look up. 

7. This final position. Breathe normally and stay in that position for 20-30 seconds, paying attention to the following points: 

(1) draw the inside of his right buttock to keep it in line with the outside of the right knee; 
(2) strain your quadriceps and stretch the hamstrings of the left leg; 
(3) draw the left armpit, biceps, wrist and elbow. The body of the left ankle to the left hand stiffly as a whole, so that no fluctuations; 
(4) Pull the scapula; rotate the left side of the torso up and back so that his chest was expanded and the back side of the body remained in the same plane. 

8. On the inhale raise your right hand from the floor and lift torso, keeping the right angle, right foot. Inhale. 

9. Inhale as you straighten your right knee and go into the situation. 

10. Repeat this same position in the left side, following all the instructions, but replacing the word "right" to "left".  

Special notes: 

(1) It is important to establish the correct distance between the legs, or a bent legs will not be the right angle. If the distance is too great, then we obtain an obtuse angle, and if it is too small, then the angle is acute. The distance should be chosen, respectively, the growth of man. When a posture is performed in the right direction, the distance is set by the left foot, which moves inside or push back, right foot in this case is fixed, and vice versa. Leg, which is already bent, for it is not used. 

(2) The left hand is facing the floor when you turn the left side up. 

(3) Beginners (if they have a lack of mobility) can keep on the floor of her fingertips.

Additional description Utthita Trikonasana

Initial position of the feet in this Asana requires special attention. The fact is that all people are different proportions of the limbs, this is added the difference in height and build. And the question immediately arises: what is in each case setting the width of the legs? Answer: The starting position in this position for any person to be so, when - leaning to one side with the spine, more or less parallel to the floor (in the thoracic part of it) - arm, dropped down perpendicularly, will be located in the middle segment of the knee to the ankle joints of the same name feet. Or you can say this: the hand touches the floor in the middle of the horizontal projection of the said segment. 

In contrast to the approach Iyengar yoga, where everything is done too abruptly, tear, quickly, I do not recommend a "standing" asanas to put legs to the starting position jump, nor would advise you to jump back to its original position. In fact, these Macropod manners in the classical practice, completely out of place. Sharp movements in addition initiate a consciousness, and the already overheated reality, and the challenge of yoga - to balance it, so all the movements during the transition from posture to posture should be unhurried, relaxed and soft that people are not leaping around, moving jerkily, like Pinocchio in a bad cartoon. 

So, let us turn to the formulation of the feet. In all positions, which are carried out "standing", the foot always oriented so that foot is feet, to which we bend (or in the direction which makes an attack, that is, bend the knee) was placed in the plane of the legs and torso, that is was directed sideways, parallel to the wall, if we stand back to her. The other foot is always formed with the first only an acute angle from 45 ° to about 70 *. During the execution of any "standing" posture soles of both feet must be held tightly to the floor, which is achieved not at once. 

Moreover, the School of Iyengar insists that they were pressed to the floor so close to the body weight distributed on the surface of each foot evenly, virtually no distinction in its individual sections. Only then will a certain point in the center of the foot, which they call "eye of God Burg, supposedly, will be closely in touch with a support surface that characterizes the necessary state and position of the feet. 

This, of course, "aerobatics", which I think only confusing for a beginner just have to resolve several mutually exclusive issues. In addition to keeping his feet in full contact with the floor in Utthita Trikonasane, legs should be straight in the knees and a cup of their sunken top. The trunk also went down to the side, located in a vertical plane, which you control for touch backs. 

All these endless details, petty, non-essential requirements and nuances of the system allow Iyengar yoga at least something to talk about asanas but bare description of their geometry which, especially in the "standing" postures, it is extremely easy and fast to remember. Of detail given here is important because attention should be involved in something to do with no real meaning on the one hand - and distracted from his search for the proposed, scanty indeed information - on the other. 

Typically, flexible middle-aged man, unfamiliar with yoga, very mediocre. Not only that by hand floor "Trikonasanah - an elusive goal, but also the knees drawn disgusting, and the torso turns, - what can I do? 

First: all the "standing" asanas should be performed, as I said, at the wall. Iyengar in 1989, said in a joking manner, but quite seriously, that the "standing" poses a wall - the best teacher, and here he is absolutely right. 

So, we camped in a vertical plane so that the foot is feet, to which we have gathered to bend, was at a distance of 10-15 cm from the wall and parallel to it. Then the heel of opposite foot - at the turn to the desired angle - will touch the wall. Setting foot in such a way to advance a certain width, I begin with an exhalation lower torso to one side, say - to the right. In this case, both shoulder blades do not lose contact with the wall, especially the upper left, which should not come off or an inch. 

It is so moving down until such time as no one in his ribs or resistance in the leg, which I omitted. As soon as the difficulty appeared and feel - no matter where! - Became apparent I must, pushing (which is convenient, but possibly vertically, not diagonally) with his right hand in his right leg the same (with shoulder blades pressed against the wall) and distributed on the part of her body weight, stay in a position to direct the knees and stretched string (but without too much stress!) feet - while the body is relaxed! The upper arm goes to the zenith, the bottom - the nadir. 

That is, although it rests on the leg or the floor, but perpendicular to the latter. At the same time I done it head to the left so that, without straining his neck to look at your left thumb, which is located at the top. In this position, I watch the breath in his nostrils, stomach completely relaxed. Again, pay attention to the above subtlety: if the legs are too relaxed, then any "standing" asana will be unstable. As adaptation to these postures should be phased out from the wall, firmly stand on its own feet. To control can only slightly touch her back, and then perform the asanas without any support and the support. 

On the other hand and foot strain is a mistake, leading to the fact that together with them in an unacceptable degree of "capture the" minds and the whole body, and it is not nothing but a spurious work that is entirely unnecessary and a hindrance to the faithful execution of postures and all practices in general. Therefore need to "catch" a sector of the intensity of the tension leg, so that they remain sufficiently rigid, immutable structure, and the torso and it was capable of the most relaxing, while in the belt, it can be freely bent or twisted. Thus we come to the polar nature of the load regime of the body: all working in Asana - strained only to the extent necessary, minimally, with no excesses, it is not involved - relaxed to such an extent as possible. 

In Utthita Trikonasanu should bend to exhale, to breathe freely and in a pose with the breath to rise to its original position so that the rate of flexion-extension not to shoot down the respiratory regularity and quiet. This requirement dictates a slow motion at the entrance of the posture and exit them. 

So - when bent, exhale, inhale free - and we again breathe normally, calmly, relaxed and at ease, but being in this position

Utthita Trikonasana

Formulation feet. Begin by determining the optimal distance for you feet. Foot should be comfortable and stable, but at the same time not put the feet too close to each other. Put your feet on the width of a little more than a meter, feet parallel to each other. Fully expand the right leg out: fingers and knees should look strictly to the right. 

Put the right heel on one line to the left. Then wrap the left foot inward at 15-20 degrees. Bend your right leg so that his knee was on the heel, then take a look at the right thigh - it should be parallel to the floor. If not, increase the distance between stops: leaving his right leg bent, promote the left foot away from the right, until the right thigh becomes parallel to the floor. Once again, straighten your right leg - this is your individual Utthita Trikonasana distance. If the leg muscles are not very elastic, and hip joints are mobile enough, you will be hard to hold the front thigh parallel to the floor without feeling tension in the legs, knees or lower back. In this case, the first time, put the foot closer to each other. 

Log in Asana. The first step towards development Utthity Trikonasana done, and we can move on. Take a brick and put it on the high line for the right foot. If you went into the pose, you feel that you can delete the palm below, change the position of bricks. 

Dilute hand in hand, parallel to the floor. Pull them intensively. Imagine that they are becoming longer with each exhalation. Tyanites crown upward, lengthening the spine. Firmly press the outer edge of the left foot to the floor. Lift the right side of the pelvis, removing it from his right thigh. Pull your knees. Take a deep breath, lowering his left hand on the waist, and move look at the fingertips of his right hand. On the exhale, slowly lower yourself to the right, making the slope of the hip joint and evenly extending both sides. 

Lower the right hand on the brick, firmly press his hand to him, but do not put weight on it body. Tyanites left hand up to the ceiling. Breathe deeply and calmly, watching the extended thorax and breathing becomes free. 

Starting master Utthita Trikonasanu, students often tend to bend down as low as possible, with the body moves forward, and the pelvis - back. To avoid this error, dropping, try to keep them in the same plane with the foot. 
 
Stay in Asan. Going into Utthita Trikonasanu, try to align the pose. Start with the stop: Make sure the pads of the thumb, the area under the little finger, inner and outer edge of half a dozen tightly pressed to the floor, weight distributed evenly between them, while the right foot is still tucked inside. Several times the tear off his toes from the floor and pull them forward - this will help to better understand feet and revitalize asana as a whole. Once again, firmly press the foot to the floor. Make sure that the kneecap looked exactly right for this actively deploy the right thigh outward. Draw the muscles of the upper thigh. 

Now will focus on the pelvis and abdomen: they should look strictly forward. This is not always easy, especially if the hip joints is not enough fluid. Point the right buttock and tail bone to the left heel and lift up the left side of the pelvis until the abdomen and thorax did not unfold exactly forward. Make sure that at this hip and knee right leg is not wrapped inside. You should not feel discomfort in his lower back. Do not "take the pose by storm" - within its capabilities. Not terrible, if not immediately be able to deploy the pelvis completely. 

Try to evenly pull both sides - do not compress the right and not to round the left. If achieved evenness fails, lower your hand to a higher support, such as a chair seat. With respect and love for your body and remember: do not pose becomes less effective if you do not bend very deeply. 

Actively pull hands - let them be like the rays emanating from the heart. Attach the shoulders of the head. The left hand should be directed straight up, do not let it deviate forward or backward. Deploy the chest to the ceiling and direct the breast to the chin. Starting to develop posture, looking forward, not up. Let look will be soft, and the mind - calm. Breathe evenly and deeply. Watch over your body: whether all parts of the body maintain the correct position? Feel like a traction in the body is formed space. 

Exit asanas. Asana Hold for 8-10 breaths, then exhale stronger push the left foot to the floor. For inspiration go up, the maximum pulling his left arm. Lower the palms on the waist and then expand to the position of the foot parallel to each other. Remove all power before perform the pose in the other direction. 

Vary posture. Perform regular Utthita Trikonasanu and do not be afraid to experiment: for example, change the distance mezhdustopami or deploy a basin under different angles. And, finally, from time to time Trikonasanu do, completely forgetting about the instructions. Suppose you send breath. Just abide in Asana, watching a feeling.

Subtleties performance Utthita Trikonasana

To enhance the effect of exercise in the terminal phase, you can move a little weight on the wrist at the bottom hand, and leaning it does not, create an additional force on the twisting of the spine, expanding the body in the plane perpendicular to the floor. 
Head as torso turns toward a raised their hands, asking the twisting of the spine. Thus meet the requirement of the hands of one vertical line and creates a large voltage at the base of the spine and hip joints of the feet. This spine does not hog up and straightened and perpendicular to the line connecting the highest points of the ilium of the pelvis. The upper and lower sides of the body are equally stretched, and the slope occurs mainly due to the lateral tilt of the pelvis. 
When performing asanas to feel the energy relationship between the palms of hands. 
At the top of the hand tends upward, stretching the chest. 
The duration of inhalation is equal to the length of exhalation, breath holding after exhalation is maximal. 
If the problem perform Utthity Trikonasana classic such as poor flexibility and / or balance, you can use a support (a chair or a wooden brick), as well as perform its standing against the wall. 
When the additional option Utthity Trikonasana very important to monitor the straightness of the same name with a slope of the legs, the knee should not to fall down. On learning the stage, to avoid injuries, people with good bend your knees to do with the slope of the bent leg. 

Contraindications: 
Trauma of the neck (not looking up) 
Low blood pressure 
Circulatory failure

Utthita Trikonasana. Pose of an elongated triangle

The practice of yoga postures can not be imagined without the triangle. It also strengthens the whole body and makes it more flexible and that is why there is almost our every lesson. "Utthita" means a stretched, elongated, "trinal" ( "Three" - three, "Conan"-angle) - a triangle. This posture of an elongated triangle. 
Summary Utthita Trikonasana 


1. Stand up straight  

2. On inspiration jump spread your legs to a distance of approximately one meter and pull the hands apart on the same line with the shoulders. The palms looked at the floor. 

3. Turn right foot 90 ° to the right. Turn the left foot slightly inward. Squeeze your knees and hips. Make one or two breaths. 

4. Inhaling, bend your torso to the right. Grasp your right hand to right ankle 

5. Raise your left arm so that it was in line with the shoulders and right arm. The left hand looks ahead. Extend both hands, elbows stretched all the time. 

6. Turn the neck and look at your left thumb. 

7. This final position of the asanas. Breathe normally and stay in that position for 20-30 seconds, paying attention to the following points: 

(I) muscles of the legs should be stretched and drawn into kneecaps and raised up; 
(II) The back side of the left leg, hip and back surface of the chest should be in the same plane; 
(III), expand the chest, this Pull shoulder blades inward. 

8. Now, while inhaling raise his right hand on the ankles, lift your torso and return to the position of this technique, and then to position 2. 

9. Repeat this pose on the left side of the following items 3-8 and substituting the word "right" to the word "left" and vice versa. Exhale and jump, get up in . 

Special notes: 

(1) While you are in position 2, the foot should be sent directly, do not let them turn to the side. 

(2) Pull your toes, but do not strain them. 

(3) Once you turn the right foot to the side, watch that ankle, knee and the middle part of the femur were on the same line. 

(4) Clause 3: 

(I) at a time when you turn the right foot, bend the left knee; 
(II) the left hand should remain steady and should neither rise nor fall; 
(III) the body should not bend to the right. Anus and the head must remain on the same line. 

(5) Those beginners who find it difficult to bend, can not arm tackle the ankle, and a drumstick.

The effect of the practice Virasana

Virasana eliminates the rheumatic pains in his knees, gout cure, forming arch and is ideal for pain in the feet, calves and heels, with the remainders of the heel bone and when the feet grow cold, or feel tired. Hero Pose is good for those who work in water or standing for hours on their feet, as well as in diseases of the blood vessels. Those suffering from pain in their heels when spurs will get relief, and spurs will fade away. Virasana gives excellent stretch ankle joints, eliminates (in conjunction with "standing" asanas) tend to their chronic subluxation, provoked by the poor quality of the ligamentous apparatus of the joints.

Additional description Virasana

Virasana - "hero pose". The main contraindication for long fixing this posture is varicose veins, especially in the lower part. In this case, the maximum time of exposure can make no more than forty seconds, but may be two or three repetitions. 

Back in Virasane should be fully erect as in the area of the sacrum before the ribs, and in the neck-stuck "shoulders, chest deployed. 

We have already talked about that in any classical performance Asana to develop flexibility arises predmeditativnoe state of consciousness, an intermediate between sleeping and waking, partly reminiscent of "Shavasana. Virasana very revealing in this respect, as well as to effect compliance with the vertical spine. If the ankle and knee joints can maintain this posture for a long time without feeling, then toward the end of the eighth to tenth minute - if the incorrect position of the spine - as if from nowhere, for no apparent reason there are shortness of breath and palpitations. If the bearing is OK, but not observed vertical, relax, you start to fall forward or backward. 

If the ankles are not stretched, it should first be some time to just sit on their heels. It would not immediately able to sit down - on the heels or on the floor between the feet wide apart, you need to look at the experience. 

If they exist - no matter where or how, excluding unpleasantness and pain - should straighten your back and relax, so that they are gone, melted away to nothing left except the emptiness of mind and convenience of staying in position. Then, when out of this emptiness will appear something - anyway where - should be based hands on the floor, slowly bend forward, raising a "fifth point", and thus take pressure off the knees and out of poses. Then pull the legs forward, and relax them. 

If you feel the performance of poses do not leave, but not increase, you can stay in Virasane as long as you do not notice the increase in intensity or color appears in the unpleasant sensation. If the knee or ankle very bad, then the performance of this asana should first be placed under the "fifth point" two or three books or not too soft. The idea remains the same: to provide a valid form today poses minimal sensations, which then after some time disappear from sight as a result of conscious relaxation of body and mind. 

Arranged in such a way that the ankle lay exactly on the rise, not turning neither in nor out, the heel is straight up, and each foot must be vertical, like leaning on the edge of the palm. "The fifth point" while freely placed on the floor between feet. 

Those who are unable to even sit on your heels, you should do "Ardha Virasana", that is, half pose with one leg stretched forward. If you stay in Virasane long enough (of course, without the unpleasant sensations in the near-emptiness "shavasana"), then there are the curious sensation, and effects. For example, after ten minutes, appear strange movement in the body, it continued somehow to sink in the hips and knees, though, it seems, no reserve forms anymore. 

If you maintain the pose even longer, a private therapeutic effects of its influence in the excerpt from twenty minutes to half an hour (without any tension and unpleasant feelings) is that removed the so-called cluster (Beam)-type migraine headaches, from which you can not relieve any medications, as their origin is connected, apparently, with the vascular system of the brain. 

The reason for this effect Virasana quite simple: at long aging posture blood flow in the legs substantially limited, and there begin to grow stagnation. Because blood flow is not fully stopped, the oxygen-poor blood, gradually getting into the bloodstream, reaches the chemoreceptors of the brain, which "give the team" on the release of vasodilator substances to eliminate the supposedly arose on the periphery of severe stenosis (narrowing) of vessels. The above-mentioned mechanism, launched by artificial restriction of blood flow, triggered automatically, and the headache disappears. 

In general, the curing time, as already mentioned, is a tremendous gain effect of yoga asanas, which can not be ignored. There are some curious cases of loss of control of time in asanas with tangible consequences. 

One day a certain lady (let's call it II), regularly practicing Hatha yoga, discover some symptoms predgrippoznogo state that it is very upset, because at over 37 ° C do asanas are not recommended. In grief, she decided to sit a little longer at least one Virasane, so nice to relax, temporarily without feeling contrary tickling in the nose and scratching in the throat. I note immediately that AI had on the nature of severe hypermobility of the joints. So, it is convenient to the village in Virasanu and soon switched off and relax. When he came to forty minutes later I. was surprised to find that low-grade fever and all other symptoms disappeared well - a little happy end. 

Once my friend the same way to really fall asleep in "Padmasana", although at a very good health. Waking up after about an hour, he was greatly puzzled began cardiac arrhythmia, which then would not let him for a month.

Aligns the body of the Hero

The correct position of the pelvis - a pledge of a strong and healthy spine. Imagine that your pelvis - a bowl filled with water. Place your hands on the side of the pelvis and gently lean forward, imagining that the water rushed to the front edge of the bowl. Then lean back, as if you want it to come nearer to the trailing edge. 

Now find the center position at which water will uniformly cover the walls of the bowl, then gently lean forward so that it barely touched the front edge. This is the neutral position of the pelvis and lower back which retains its natural curve. 

When we take an unusual situation in some parts of the body may be stress. Especially concerns the abdominal muscles. Take a few smooth, full breaths, expanding the abdomen on the inhale and exhale, relaxing him. 

Virasana like no other posture helps develop the correct posture. Observe the natural curvature of the spine. When the pelvis is in the correct position in the back formed a soft curve. Place your hand on your lower back, to understand, she retracted, rounded or remain flat. Try to fix the position of the spine. 

In contrast to the waist, the middle and upper back should be made a bit ago. To achieve the desired form, send the chest to the back. This subtle movement - you should have a feeling that the middle and lower back related T-shirts a little more than the front surface of the body. Makes that motion slowly and thoughtfully, not allowing the shoulders to rise up or fall forward. Now imagine that the chest is filled with helium and let it strive upward, while expanding the area of the collarbone. 

Draw the bones in the shoulder joints, sending them back - it will help raise the chest. Lower the hands on your hips. Breathe evenly, feeling his lungs fill with air. 

In conclusion, realign the position of the head - it must be located directly above the pelvis. Extends the back of the neck so that the base of the skull slightly rising, and his chin was parallel to the floor. Take a look soft and relax the throat. Let the upper sky moving toward the crown, and the language becomes difficult. Stay in the pose as long until you feel tension and discomfort.

Virasana. Hero Pose

"Veera" means a heroic, brave, a hero. This posture resembles a warrior in a sitting position. At first glance it seems simple Virasana. Nevertheless, during the first years of practice for many was the traditional sitting position is not easy. Students complain of a burning sensation in the hips, sore knees and ankles. 

Disregard Virasanoy should not, even if you think that it brings nothing but suffering. Although its effect is not immediately pose Hero is very useful. In Virasane we improve the mobility of the knees and ankles, as well as learning to wrap the thigh inward. Posture reduces tension in the legs, improves digestion and relieves you from unpleasant sensations in the stomach. In addition, Virasana - one of the traditional provisions for pranayama and meditation. If it is done correctly, it can stay a few minutes, watching his inner feelings. In other words, this asana promotes awareness, which is the cornerstone of the practice of yoga. 
Summary Virasana 

1. Kneel, holding them together. 

2. Dissolve the foot and rotate them so that the foot looked at the ceiling. Keep your toes and feet in a straight line, pulling them back. 

3. Keep your feet so that the distance between them was 30-45 cm Lower down the buttocks, until they lie on the floor, but not on the heel. Make one or two breaths. 

4. Keep your buttocks so that they are touching the floor. Now the inner surface of the calves should be close to the outer surface of the thighs. 

5. Turn the palm of your hand so that they looked down, and put them on their knees. 

6. Keep your weight on your hips and lift the waist and the sides of the trunk upwards. 

7. Open the chest, lift your neck and look straight ahead. 

8. Breathe normally and stay in that position for one minute, and thereafter for as long as you can. Herewith: 

(1) the body should not lean forward; 
(2) omit the groin and hips down; 
(3) do not let the footsteps left her side; 
(4) do not sit on their heels 
(5) keep the natural curve of the waist 

9. Place the palms on the floor, lift your buttocks and connect the foot. Now straighten your legs. 

Special notes: 

(1) In this Asana the pressure falls on his knees and ankles so that it is sometimes difficult to put your buttocks on the floor. Put under your buttocks folded blanket to the body weight was evenly distributed between the knees, feet and buttocks. Gradually reduces the thickness of the blanket. 
(2) If the foot can not bend back, hold them horizontally. 
(3) If you find it difficult to keep the body straight, then firmly uprites hands on his knees and pressed his groin down so that the body pulled up from the base of the pelvis. 
Detail Virasana 
A simplified version of the posture of the Hero 

When performing this variation Virasana you need a blanket and a brick, which will help avoid stress in the knees. Support is needed for most beginners. Moreover, it is possible that for the safe execution of postures of these materials is not enough. Even if you do not feel any inconvenience in the classical variant Virasana, try to do it using supporting materials - is within reach, so you can work in a better position. Then follow the asana without support. 

Fold the blanket in four and place it in the center of rug. Brick, place close to the smooth edge of the blanket across the rug. The blanket will help reduce pressure on the ankle, and brick - relieving pressure from the knees. 

Kneel in front of a brick so that the legs were on the blanket, and feet - on the mat. Toes should be directed strictly ago, and the soles are deployed to the ceiling. Inner side of knees in contact with each other, and the heels are separated at a distance slightly greater than the width of the pelvis. Carefully lowered to the brick. 

Observe the sensations in the legs. What happens to the feet, ankles, shins, knees and hips? If you feel too much pressure on the ankles or knees, put under the legs have one or two blankets. If you feel a burning sensation, sharp pain or a spot in the knees, dissolve them by the width of the pelvis so that the thigh bones were parallel to each other and the edges of the mat, and then increase support under the pelvis. 

As soon as you feel comfortable, begin to align posture. First check the position of feet. Before making any amendments, make sure they are positioned symmetrically: equally wrapped inside the heel - at the same distance from the pelvis, and ankle are parallel to each other. In addition, the foot must be on one line with the shins. Pull the outer side ankle and firmly push both heels to the pelvis. Place your hands under the foot and fingers send out your skin - so the foot will be less stringent. 


wrong 
Do not let your feet cross on the side  


wrong 
Do not sit on their heels  


correctly 
Keep the natural curve of the waist 


Now pay attention to their knees. When the correct position, they retain their mobility and does not hurt either during or after the posture. Nevertheless, students often showered her knees inward and pererastyagivayut popliteal ligament, which can lead to injury. If your knees hurt, sit above. On the other hand, the slight discomfort is natural - it can occur if you are Virasanu first time. 

Palms send the skin over the knees, freeing them from excessive pressure. Observe the sensations in her lap - most likely, they will be different. 

Then focus attention on the front surface of the thighs. Do you feel stiffness or tension? Hips should wrap inside, and the lower leg - well pressed to the floor. Feeling the strength and stability in the legs, breathe evenly. Feel how Virasana helps to revive and relax your feet.