What is Yoga?

The term "yoga" comes from the word yuj in Sanskrit, which means union - union of body, mind and soul or consciousness. There is a way to reconcile the different aspects of what we are.
Yoga is not just yoga postures, it is not just physical exercise for the body, which is often mistaken for. It includes some large and complex that affects both the body and the subtle layers, which provide energy to the mind and själen.Om you read the ancient yoga scriptures - Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - you will see that yoga is a way of life. The need to be in at all levels of human existence for mankind to find both spiritual and material happiness.
In the same way that water comes in many forms - steam, ice and liquid and can be used in many ways - we have Yoga many forms and each form has a särkild role to play in the various aspects of life: relationships, family, career, health and the environment.
Everyone can do yoga. It is not acrobatics. Yoga comes naturally to us.
Three blind men encountered an elephant. A person touched the tail and said that the elephant is like a broom, the other man touched the leg and thought that it is like a tree, and the third person touched the trunk and said it was like a hose. People try yoga and believe that it is just asanas and breathing or meditation, but the whole is always greater than the parts. Yoga is much more than what they perceive it as.
Did you know? That yoga is not just asanas or exercise but also
Fun and joy
Silence
Independent
Love
self
Fun and joy
When you are looking for entertainment, looking up the accident when searching for knowledge, seeks happiness you.
Yoga is a way to reach out for joy and play in every situation - everyday or unusual, a movement toward balance and abundance. The first step is understanding, and once you have embarked on a path of yoga, then you have already seen and become aware of what is. After that, it's just a spiral upward.
Silence
Prayer as part of breathing is silence
Love that part of eternity is silence
Wisdom without words, silence
Compassion without goals is silence
Action without someone who "does" is silence
To smile with the whole existence is silence
And all the above is yoga.
Independent
Independence is not apathy. Regardless do not joy disappears. Independent gives the joy that nothing else can give. Independent shields you do not, the fact is that it connects you. It puts you in touch with the present moment so totally that you can be 100% in whatever you do.
Practicing yoga gives wisdom and knowledge, which in turn leads to oberoende.En deeper understanding of things temporary nature provides a state of non-dependent of all events, things, people or situations and allow you to remain calm in any situation.
Love
Love is your nature. When you express love caught frequently the object of it. The gaze is caught by something external. To find your way back to your nature, you need insight. Pain is the first insight. The turning attention away from the object of your emotions and direct it toward your body and your mind. Energy's second insight. A flash of energy back to yourself. Divine love is the third realization. A glimpse of divine love makes you so great and transcends all relative pleasures.
Trance
Trance is the fourth realization.
Trance is consciousness raised and you are only partially aware of the physical world around them. Insight into the undivided existence - that all is one and only one - is the fifth realization Love Glowing is bliss, love flowing is compassion. A mixture of all of this is yoga.
Love that glows is bliss, love flowing is compassion. A mixture of all of this is yoga.
self
Feelings change, thoughts change, ideas change, your body is constantly changing. But deep within us, we long for something that does not change, something that is eternal, which is always, which is our Self. Self is not only complex mind-kropp.Varken body or mind is the Self. The only reason for the body to exist is to make you aware of how beautiful you are and to make you aware that it is possible to live all the values ​​you hold high and create a divine world around you. Yoga gives you a lens to view the world from the inside out rather than the other way around.