Yoga a part of culture....

Ashtanga and Culture:

Many a times I encounter with some questions on yoga that seems strange, there were quesries regarding the myths that have spread in Hungary regarding yoga by few unqualified teachers. Basically as Kino has marked many a times it is never easy to understand the key and back ground of yoga for a western mind, even they live India for decades.

Yoga has many Fundamentals that can be learn with a long period of time such as 30-40 years of constant practice while for an eastern or an Indian it is a part of the culture.

People are struggling to undertsand the right meaning of Ashtanga yoga, they have defined the Yamas and Niyams according to their western perceptive mind. In doing some good they have done more harm and conditioned the mind with a peculiar thinking.

Yoga philosophy is a deep conotation of life, it is as life is not as it ought to be. It is the wasting of time doing asanas without understanding their relative importance as taught in Anusara styles.

I would suggest just 5 reasons for a western mind to do yoga, 6th one will be misleading if there would be :

1. To do for a general health like strong immune system.
2. To concentrate and calm the down the nervous activities for healthy psychology.
3. To unwind the important areas of their body.
4. To explore your own path.
5. To loosen up Ego.

In India yoga is a part of daily ritual, an Indian dont need to use his mental faculty to explore this science as it is very simple for them. While in west it has become more complicated and technical. We need to set our priorties to know where we are heading up with yoga practice, many of us find at last the we just end up as a mere gymnast !!!