What is yoga - you might be one of the millions who has
taken a yoga class and perhaps even mastered the peacock pose or maybe the
downward dog pose. You might do Yoga for physical benefits or to rest your mind
but Yoga has a lot more to offer for a deeper consciousness and higher
awareness.
When you think of yoga you
probably imagine exercise and complicated positions. But actually, it's
traditionally based on meditation and spirituality believed to originate from
the 5th or 6th century BC. Yoga is an Indian practice that also covers religion
and philosophy.
Yoga is a philosophical
school of Hinduism and therefore some consider the way of life. It offers
guidance on ethical practices, offers self-development techniques and blends in
its own brand of metaphysics. Yoga supports the concept of a personal God with
the ultimate goal of achieving a liberated unified state of existence called
Kabbalah Hatha yoga.
However, the physical practice
more commonly seen in the West became popular in the 1980s and has been on the
rise ever since. Over 20 million people practice it in the US alone. Shawn
Morgan author of the mastery of change. travels the world and
wants to talk to you about how yoga can be a complete system for you to recover
from depression. So suffered
from depression anxiety social anxiety depersonalize panic disorder. All of
these pencil problems for like 10 years and recovered two years ago and so what's that like means. used to feel horrible every day and it got so normal
that didn't even know. He felt horrible and then two
years ago no longer feels
horrible every day. sometimes
goes through challenges but they're temporary, they know maybe lasts an hour
and then gets over it so
recovery is real and so to
talk about how yoga can be everything.
you need if you could drop everything else and just use yoga as your
system of recovery for depression. it's physical postures known as our saunas
are used to relieve health problems reduce stress and make the spine and muscles
more limber. you might recognize some of
the positions the bow pose the warrior pose and the downward-facing dog. the
latter helps build bone density and because the heart is above the head
encourages blood circulation. however, you practice yoga there's now a special
day to celebrated June 21st.
Take a seat close up your vision
and discover some intrinsic calmness and equilibrium. talked about the formula you know of everything
that learned. boiled down everything into a formula for health and
happiness and it's clean nutrition plus clean thoughts plus friendship nature
and exercise equal health and happiness and yoga has
everything that you need within that formula. it has a community the community
of people that you practice with is the friendship you know you're getting out
of your house and into nature. Hopefully to do yoga that was the best way to do
it so there you've got the friendship.
the nature the exercise and as you get healthier and healthier the clean
air clean water and clean food just becomes part of your lifestyle and the
other major thing that really helps with yoga is that it's a physical practice
and a mental practice so as you go through the different postures or asanas
you're actually triggering emotional things that you stored in your body over
your life and letting go of them or processing them. so it's a physical thing that happens like
memories are stored in your body.
but as you practice yoga and you
change your physiology you change the way your body is you changed. so when you
change your physiology you change the way your mind is you become more limber
with your body. you can become more flexible with your mind and as you go
through these different postures and you're triggering and releasing toxins in
all your different systems of your body and all the different internal organs
you're letting go of all the toxic memories and emotions that you've suppressed
through your life and it's a really intense experience as you practice yoga
more and more you definitely could experience crying emotional outbursts. experienced anger on a regular
basis when does certain yoga
postures and yoga also helps you increase concentration or Samadhi and this is
really important to be able to have the more free will to choose your emotional
state.
somebody once described Oprah as
an amazing adult playground where people can let go and return in a way to the
playfulness of childhood. before
came thought in between this
session would be bored what
shall do how many books can read hasn't been bored for a second. thinks for me the most important thing is that it
is simply what it is and it's up to each person who comes there to make of it
what they make of it. thinks
the old Potter yoga retreat is about people experiencing the nature here and
the simplicity of. guesses
how we used to live without modern technology and coming back to our feelings.
so we learn to slow down here and
with the eyes closed just take ten breaths in and out. okay just to gradually notice
each time you breathe in the possibility to breathe in a little bit more air
let the breath out find its natural resting point. had never tried yoga before and found it extremely nice feel like in sleeping positions could not do before and notice the difference when
we are having lunch or dinner that
can sit differently and eat because
can bend differently. can use
and stretch it makes me feel very good. we're not rushed by other classes
coming in after so we have the time to explore our breathing practices
meditation practices relaxation techniques a little bit more time to allow the
body to relax and be in the nature being a peaceful surrounding. so those
vibrations thinks feed more
into the body when came last
Sunday felt stressed. felt my body was tense 've had bloated now feel relaxed feels my face is relaxed.
State studies have been done that
the actual sheath of the DNA becomes weaker so that it can change form when
you're in a relaxed state. not only that you're accessing the unconscious mind
by being in that relaxed state and your teacher is like imprinting all these
positive beliefs into your unconscious mind. so really yoga has everything
absolutely everything that you need to recover from depression. so the key is
to get started. there's a root of the problem and that the actions you're going
to take are likely to succeed. make yoga yours and discover the diminutive when
the five senses are still. once the brain is stilled once the thoughts are
stilled that is definitely known as the maximum condition with the intelligent.
they say yoga is this complete stillness in which one enters the unit of state
never to become separate again. if one is not established in this state sense
of unity will come and go.
