M i n d  .   B o d y  .   C o n s c i o u s n e s s   .   U n i t e

M  i  n  d  .   B  o  d  y  .   C  o  n  s  c  i  o  u  s  n  e  s  s  .   U  n  i  t e

As a well cut dia­mond has many facets, each reflect­ing a dif­fer­ent colour of light, each facet of the word ‘yoga’ reveals a dif­fer­ent shade of mean­ing and dif­fer­ent aspects of the entire range of human endeav­our to gain inner peace and happiness.

‘Yoga’ is derived from the san­skrit root ‘yuj’, mean­ing to bind/join, union, to ‘yoke’ the power of body, mind and soul.  The pur­pose of yoga is to real­ize and max­i­mize one’s own poten­tial. Y o g a   i s   a   w a y   o f   l i f e .

Yoga opens the body through care­ful train­ing, like the sun opens a flower — del­i­cately unfold­ing it lit­tle by lit­tle.  When the body is open, the heart is open and the nat­ural hap­pi­ness of con­scious being can be revealed.

The pos­tures, or asanas, of yoga are usu­ally our intro­duc­tion to yoga, and help keep the body free of ‘dis-ease’, reduc­ing stress and fatigue, sooth­ing the nerves, and har­mo­niz­ing the body whilst sooth­ing the mind.  Yoga is an impor­tant, pow­er­ful and effec­tive method of ther­apy that works on the prin­ci­ples of har­mony and uni­fi­ca­tion.  Tak­ing into account the inter­re­la­tion­ship of all the organs and sys­tems in the body, if any of the sys­tems or organs are out of bal­ance and not coor­di­nat­ing with each other then not just one, but all sys­tems and organs are imbal­anced.  Yoga brings us back to har­mony and bal­ance, allow­ing energy to flow freely through the entire body.

The abil­ity to do one pos­ture and not another is not a reflec­tion on one’s abil­ity or progress in yoga.     W e    f o c u s    a n d    r e j o i c e     i n

o u r     a b i l i t i e s    -    n o t    o n     o u r     l i m i t a t i o n s   !

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