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 !!!

Ashtanga Yoga: Pros and cons

Yoga is undoubtably excellent for increasing flexibility, but one of the great ashtanga benefits is that this style also gives you a workout in the more traditional sense.

In this way, it is somewhat different to the more static styles of yoga such as iyengar and hatha.

Whilst they develop flexibility and improve overall body composition, they don't help with cardiovascular training and endurance, and unless you consciously choose to use more 'power yoga' postures, they don't necessarily develop great muscular strength.

On the other hand, the benefits of ashtanga yoga include the ability to become strong and muscular in a relatively short space of time.

Certain poses in yoga, called the 'power poses' for this reason, help train muscles. And ashtanga yoga has a lot of them incorporated in its' routines. For example, the salute to the sun sequences, which start each of the series, strengthen the deltoids, triceps and pectoral muscles.

A further benefit of ashtanga yoga training is that you won't build bulky muscles. However, you do develop an increase in the size and density of muscle fibers. This has a positive effect on both strength and endurance - good hallmarks of a rounded physical fitness program.

The very nature of the way the ashtanga series were designed mean that they satisfy the caveats every yoga practice should if your aim is also to be physically fit in the traditional sense. The constant movement, and the pace mean you build up a sweat and get a cardiovascular workout. This is an intensity you control, however, and easing up on the pace means less of a workout for your heart.

Ashtanga benefits extend beyond traditional fitness, however. The combination of the heat generated with the stretching allows the muscles to soften. You can thus go deeper into a stretch than you would be able to otherwise. The heat is also said to have a cleansing effect of the body. It certainly helps with circulation, and many of the poses also help with metabolism. The focus and breathing help develop concentration and coordination as well.


Here are some of the pros about ashtanga yoga.


•It's a system of yoga that involves synchronizing your breathing with a progressive series of postures, which is a process that produces intense heat, which causes you to sweat which is supposed to be used to detoxify the muscles and organs of your body


•The first series of poses, which is considered the primary poses in this style of yoga, are basically used for yoga therapy. This therapy is used to realign the spine, detoxify the body, as well as build flexibility, strength and stamina. This series of poses is known as Yoga Chikitsa.


•The second series of poses is known as Nadi Shodana, which basically translates into nervous system purification. These poses are used to clean and strengthen the nervous system, but they are also used to help strengthen the subtle energy channels within the body.


•This form of yoga is actually one of the most popular forms of yoga and has been around for many years. It is a secret and ancient healing practice that was passed down from various yoga instructors.


•This form of yoga is also a very good workout for your body, by raising your body temperature you are in turn raising your heart rate and you are burning calories, which all in turn will help keep you physically fit and can also help you to lose weight. And the longer you practice this form of yoga the better results you will have, as well as producing dramatic effects on your body.



Here are some of the cons to this type of yoga.

•One of the bad things about this type of yoga is that you can not move on to the second series of poses until you have become strong in the first series of yoga.


•While this is not power yoga this type of yoga will give you an intense workout, which means it is not for the light hearted. If you are looking for a more relaxing style of yoga this type of yoga is not going to be right for you.

Do you have fire??

Passions are required, many of right hand philosophy termed them negative. Even hinduism said they are not necessary and can be harmful. But Tantra marks they are required for perfection and man can be completely free from them only with complete utilisation.

I have seen many of the students in Buda are showing a great deal of courage and willingness to develop themselves at higher level of health, mental peace, and emotional well being.

Fire burns our calories, gives us the heat to grow and to Chase our dreams and convert them reality. As for example I asked Veronica 3 weeks ago that she has to make up her mind for head stand but she said may be next life. But with her conviction and believe she did in 3 weeks.

Vera has left the behind the history of self doubt and 1000 reasons for not to do. She has overcome her weight and osteoporosis, but you should not attempt it needs a safe practice and motivational guidance.

We need this fire to burn our fears, to have a world where we are fearless and our opinions can hold true. We can get complete happiness when we have complete freedom. And yoga say Abhinevesh, fear of self preservation, has to go away for a spiritual and material growth.

Szilvi, who have just started few months ago have shown with her consistent practice that yoga is all about practice not about dreaming, burning your laziness in this fire. It is a matter of safe practice with concise knowledge of your self. That's why she could stay in Dwi pada asana very comfortable and stable. She is young but by the time she will be old she could be much more developed internally, emotionally and spiritually.

Same way the Hand stand lifts by Naomi is also an example of utter will to use her best to reach the effortless state. It is surprising that a girl without a previous experience of exercise regime could reach so fast

Thus let kindle the fire and do without interfering the mind in it !!!!!


Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual fire. - Buddha

Yoga Workshops by Mukesh Kothari

1.) 2009.október 17.: A jóga tüze – középpontban a zsírmetabolizmus.

Tudj meg mindent a zsírokról és ismerj meg egy egészséges fogyási módszert. Intenzív gyakorlás Mukesh Kothari indiai jógamesterrel!

Fogyást elősegítő ászanák gyakorlása és pranajáma, étrendek (ájurvéda szerint), a testsúly és testzsír kontrolálásának elvei.

2.) 2009.október 31.: Intenzív Ashtanga műhely – Építsd fel gyakorlásod szilárd alapjait.

Első sorozat, ismerd meg a vinyásza, a légzés és a test hőelosztásának alapjait! Gyakorlás Iyengar módszer szerint!

3.) November 14-15.: Intenzív jóga műhely (hatha és Iyengar alapú).

Ászanák, pranajáma, mudrák, bandha és filozófia.

4.)2009 november 28.: Iyengar jóga – Itt az idő a fejlődésre!
Középpontban a hátrahajlások és az egyensúly-gyakorlatok.

More Information: http://www.szurja.hu/

Never say never.....Gilad reloaded !!!

I come across these words in yoga sessions that "I will do this after 10 years or next life". Never say never is a tendency to be optimist. Optismism is just only a attitude it is a belief that I can accomplish the task if I will believe on me......

Patanjali in yoga sutras states that practice with the sense of dettachment is the only tool that yogi have. And the spirit to say never say never is a way to sharpen that tool.

After the spider spirit of Vera I am placing Gilad in row for inspiration. Vera shows spirit at 60 to develop, Gilad Regev,48 inspire to get the balance in life with managing a company and desire to grow internally for better health, spirituality and ever young spirit.

I met him six months ago and he practised for a month with me, with a spondylitis at lower back he show a great courage to grow, from zero level of practice to here that you can see in pictures...

Not only yoga every great achievement in life can be only attained with undying desire to toil and to break the limits set by your conditioned mind...........at last the hard work placed on mat, and breaking the jinx of your irritations.....

Robin use to say dent the universe......the purpose of the life can be only fulfilled when you can create a dent in universe...that you can be remembered even after your physical death.......Yoga is just begining.......

Workshops

We all have different needs....and yoga is one of the way to satisfaction. But even at yoga classes we find that our body and structure of muscles need unique way to unwind and open. Therefore to cater this need we are going to have workshops 2 times in a month on weekend....

Keep looking and we will do best to inform you.

http://www.bindusaryoga.hu/

http://www.szurja.hu/

Workshops will be conducted by:

Mukesh Kothari

Orlos Erika

Yoga As it is- By Mukesh Kothari

Yoga : As it is


5000 years ago when sage Patanjali wrote the treatise on yoga, he felt that he is writing a way for humanity to achieve the state of eternal happiness and joy. Yoga is popularly believed as “cessation of mind” and the union of individual self with cosmic self. My experiments with yoga since last 13 years, I felt that still we are far way from the real essence of yoga.


Yoga as a Sanskrit word means union or binds, literally signify the union of individual consciousness with universal consciousness. On the practice level defined as a state of harmony among body, mind and emotions.


Decades of yoga practice have illusion us that it is a body art , though that’s the part of it but at last not the ultimate purpose. In east and India many practices are taken by residents to enhance their spiritual level, and it is believed that yoga is the core science for it.


Present human sufferings are the result of accepting the lowest condition of mind. By the practice of yoga all such conditionings can be overcome easily. Yoga says that we are not only physically conditioned but also psychological conditioned, and we are never aware about it, therefore we are not able to know the way to come out from our problems. Yoga paves the way to higher the consciousness about our inner self and surroundings.



In the books of yoga it is said to be a science of eight fold path, widely known as Ashtanga yoga. It has the limbs they includes Yama (Principles of moral code), Niyama( personal discilines), asana (Physical asanas), Pranayama (Breath retention), Pratayhara (Sense withdrawl), Dharna (methods of concentration), dhyana (Meditation) and Samadhi (attainment of eternal bliss).


Theses above mentioned methods and techniques leads to the purification of internal and external self. They have a deep impact on the level of psychology, physiology, and issues concerned to communication with external environment. The yoga techniques help an individual to strengthen his will and psychology side to face the daily challenges of life. While the combination practice of Asanas and Pranayams lead to the enhanced health and internal joy. There are several problems that have been proved they can be cured very easily with help to Yoga practice under authentic guidance. It have been seen that problems concerned with Spine, gastrointestinal, depression, obesity, phobias and others can be handle easily with the continuous practice.


Yoga is the right path of living, it works on all aspects of the person, i.e Physical, mental, emotional, psychic and spiritual.