by Tirtha Acharya | Nov 11, 2020 | Yoga
Yogic power & some Mysterious activities done through Yoga in ancient/ modern time
Many people imagine that yoga is all about bending and twisting the body, as it is what Medias shows to people. However, yoga is more than bending and twisting the body, yoga focuses on going inward and concentrating on the thoughts in the subtle level, to achieve the extraordinary things in life. Many ancient yogis and modern yogis describe yogic power as the ability to evoke out the hidden potential with the human being.
There are umpteen of yoga teaching and practices available throughout the world. In a bid to evoke out the yogic power within the self, it is of utmost importance to choose the congenial yoga practices in your life. Yogis have attained beyond the limitations of the human being by cultivating yoga in their daily routine thus evoking out the yogic power. Many works of literature blatantly say that no human being has not attained the full potential of their mind, body, and soul. Yoga is the superpower that acts as a catalyst to go beyond the mortal power and evoke the mystic or yogic power.
In this article, we will delve into mysterious things that have been done in the past through yogic power by the rishis and maharishis.
Survive on air through yogic power
Pranayama is what yogis’ resort to nullify the physical nourishment. Yogis strongly believe that the human body is the mirror of the minds and there is no need to depend on the foods to survive for a few days. However, how could this become a reality? Yogis depend on the simple principle of going into deep relaxation by subsiding breathe. By practicing such a mind slowly starts to become less aware of human consciousness, time, and energy. For instance, people resorting to such starts to feel the hours of meditation seem only of a few minutes or seconds.
The simple principle of avoiding the physicality by plummeting the metabolic activity can do some magic thus results in low physical activity and thus slow pulse rate and respiration. In such states, the body does not require any sorts of physical nourishments.
Some yogis like Yogi Prahlad Jani had lived for more than 70 years without resorting to foods and drinking. There is a lot of documentary on Yogi Prahlad Jani to verify his claim. So, the yogic power is amazing. Start follow the yoga path from today.
Acquaintance with the past lives
Yogis know past lives too. Due to the simple, yet inquisitive questions like ‘WHO AM I?’ WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE? WHY DID I COME TO THIS EARTH? and the quest to answer takes the spiritual journey to the interesting mode of knowing the past lives. Nevertheless, it requires a high level of concentration and the ability to bestow time, energy, and focus. Using the spiritual practices, which they follow religiously, takes them beyond the physicality that ultimately amazes the normal human being with the truth.
Embracing death with the exactness of time
Did you know a seasoned yogi could choose the time to leave this mortal coil? Death is inevitable truth and seasoned yogis can take control of the time and place of their death in a bid to attain the Mahasamadhi. They could consciously leave the mortal coil. Some of the prominent Yogis in the past have left their mortal coil consciously. The list includes Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda and many others.
Control over nature through yogic power
Yogis have supernatural power to take control over not only their thoughts and imagination but also to nature. The superconscious of seasoned yogis can evoke out the super yogic power at focusing on the inside world, and steadily shifting out of the 5 senses to the supernatural power. Thus, giving them the power to take control of their mind and the surrounding.
Living for a longer period
There are many instances where yogis have lived for more than 100 years. Many works of literature claim that Himalayan yogis have lived for more than 150 years and this is all possible due to the yogic power. For instance, Devraha Baba has lived for more than 150 years.
Defying gravity
Yogis can defy gravity and can levitate in the air for a longer period. This is possible due to the supply of oxygen to every cell through Pranayama. The experience of feeling light comes into action after being oxygenated thoroughly. Certain works of literature that claim yogis can levitate for hours on end.
Yogis can tolerate extreme temperatures
In the past, Yogi has been able to meditate for months in extreme weather conditions. Yogis meditate at high altitudes and they are not affected by the cold conditions. It is all possible due to the yogic power. Yogis can take control of their minds and body also. They can control to the extent that they can regulate their body temperature to tolerate the extremities.
Yogis can heal the wounds without suffering much by means of yogic power
The healing is possible due to yogic power.
Yogis can remain celibate for the whole life
Yogis eat Sattva foods and remain healthy
by Tirtha Acharya | Nov 7, 2020 | Yoga
What is Samadhi?
The literal meaning of word Samadhi in Yoga is bliss or enlightenment. The state of Samadhi in Yoga is also called the ultimate position in the voyage of Yoga. Likewise, Samadhi is called the final or the eight limb in the Patanjali or Yoga Sutra. When a person reaches the state of Samadhi his or her consciousness reaches to the state where he sees only better. It is the highest level of dhyana. Furthermore, only a few yogis who has been practicing yoga for longer period reach this state. Samadhi in yoga is taught by various yogic schools throughout the world.
When a person reaches the state of Samadhi then he can attach and detach whenever he wants. At the state of Samadhi in Yoga, he can thoroughly understand himself. Many yogis describes Samadhi in Yoga as the state which cannot be explained in the words and thus an individual who wants to attain the state of Samadhi in Yoga much practice to reach the ultimate yogic state. While some Yogis says that Samadhi is the blissful state where the individual connects himself with the whole universe.
How to practice?
Samadhi has been compared with meditation. Just as the meditation happens spontaneously, Samadhi also happens in a similar way. It cannot be practiced. When you become seasoned in Samadhi, it happens automatically without putting any efforts. The first state of Samadhi is putting concentration efforts also called Dharana. By practicing some time you can be a seasoned Samadhi yoga practitioners.
Dharana is another prerequisite to achieve Samadhi in Yoga. We build up concentration by practicing Dharana. In contrast, Dhyana helps you to de-focus and aids you to relax effortlessly. Through Samadhi, you can change from one state to another consciously. You put Dhyana at one time after practicing a few minutes you totally absorb and enjoy the blissfulness of the meditation.
In yoga, the experience of the vastness is the pined for the real world.
It is classified “Brahman” in Hinduism; anyway to a great extent Parabrahman, now and then Parashiva and now and again Parameshwara are additionally utilized. Regardless of what it is called, it is the experience of everything. That is the explanation Patanjali called it “Kaivalya”, “alone”. There is not much, near, or outside of it. It is all that is, was or ever will be. The ten kinds of samadhi are the progressive stages one must experience in moving from the general presence of our waking attention to the state of inconceivability, or Kaivalya.
Various kinds of Samadhi in Yoga
The Few sorts of Samadhi in yoga are:-
- Sabija Samadhi – As the name recommends, it is the Samadhi ‘with the seed’. It implies that there is an object of contemplation. The object of reflection is called pratyaya. There are 2 sorts of Sabija Samadhi:-
- Samprajatna Samadhi – In this Samadhi the searcher is caught up in Pratyaya at a solitary degree of cognizance. Saprajatna Samadhi can happen at every one of the four degrees of awareness. The four states are:-
- Savitarka Samadhi – Vitarka is the cognizance of particulars
- Savicara Samadhi – Vicara is the cognizance of the worldview
- Ananda – The cognizance of examples among standards, where one reflected on more over the examples than the worldview.
- Asmita – This is characterized as the awareness of unity. There are no differentiations between the phases of mindfulness in this cognizance.
- Asamprajatna Samadhi – This is the condition of moving starting with one level then onto the next of awareness. The four phases of progress are as per the following:-
a) Nirvitarka – vitarka to vicara
b) Nirvichara – vicara to Ananda
c) Ananda to Asmita
d) Asmita to Nirbija Samadhi
- Nirbija Samadhi – It is the Samadhi ‘without a seed’. It is the most elevated type of Samadhi and leads straightforwardly to Dharma Megha Samadhi.
- Dharma Megha Samadhi – It is the most remarkable sort of Samadhi. It is the condition of going out of the universe of relative happenings and environmental factors and progressing into Kaivaly
by Tirtha Acharya | Sep 19, 2020 | Yoga
Nighttime yoga or bedtime yoga
It is a universal truth that yoga practice aids to keep you fit and healthy. The more interesting fact about yoga is if we practice yoga at the right time then the benefits will be humongous. If you practice, yoga just after waking up you will see the awesome benefits the whole day. Furthermore, if you practice yoga just before hitting the bed or do the nighttime yoga you will feel other benefits like peaceful and serene deep sleep because you will be able to release everything that you have hold be the grudges or the physical strenuous activities all will sink if you practice some bedtime yoga before sleep.
Many scientific researchers have shown that yoga practitioners become relaxed if they practice yoga before sleep whose ramification is the quality sleep as well as long time. Those individuals who are suffering from insomnia or have very constrained time to sleep get hugely benefitted if they practice light yoga.
Important postures during sleep time: There are certain specific poses that must be practiced with care because at nighttime we are doing yoga after having dinner. Therefore, usually, it is not recommended to do a complex form of yoga, but the easy yoga that helps to keep you fit and healthy.
- Supta Jaṭhara Parivartānāsana – Supine Spinal Twist
- Balasana – Child’s Pose
- Supta Baddha Konasana – Reclining Goddess Pose
- Viparita Karani – Legs-Up-The-Wall Pose
- Savasana – Corpse Pose
- Forward Bend
- Cobra Lay
- Knees to Chest
- Legs Up a Wall
- Child’s Pose
Benefits of practicing nighttime yoga or bedtime yoga
Your night sleep will be serene and calm with nighttime yoga
It is normal for the body to be stressed out by working the whole day long continuously for a longer period. However, there are remedies to come out of the worry and anxieties that build up in our mind and muscles—the best remedy is practicing mindfulness breathing and imaginative meditation. These techniques practiced with care helps to subdue the stress and purge out negativity from our thoughts.
Negative thoughts are the root cause of making our sleep uneasy. If there are no negative toxic thoughts in our mind we fall asleep right away in a jiffy. Nighttime Yoga and meditation are the pills to help you reach the serene state of mind and keep away from negativity and spring positivity, overall it gives good night sleep and calm the mind.
Another way of being mindful is following you breathing, this technique is also called Sudarshan Kriya, where you focus on your breathe and ultimately reap being de-stressed and also lowers blood pressure. Anxious kids or adults with high anxiety usually do not sleep easily, to them this technique is handy and many are reaping benefits as well.
Practicing yoga will limit the time to use mobile before hitting bed
Using mobile phones or laptop computers are baneful as they stall your sleep. The stimulating lights emitted from the electronic devices make you active even at the time of sleeping. The blue light stimulates the hormone called cortisol, which is a stress hormone that keeps you awake longer than usual. Therefore, it is usually recommended to practice mindfulness and other light yoga techniques instead of indulging in the TV or going online.
Aches and Pains gets reduced
By nighttime yoga, physical pain can also be reduced. The back pain, which usually occurs by doing work for the whole day cannot only be cured using painkillers but also through using yoga and meditation techniques. The blood circulation increases by doing some light exercises before sleep. The harmful toxins and chemicals are purged out if we practice yoga and meditation on a regular basis.
The basis for the next day is prepared
The sound sleep keeps you active for the whole day, whereas disturbed sleep does not allow you to concentrate for a longer period.
by Tirtha Acharya | Sep 17, 2020 | Yoga
Isha Yoga & Its Benefits
Yoga is the ultimate truth, which ushers the practitioners to self-realization through long-term practice. Among many yoga organizations offering various forms of yoga techniques, which are present in today’s world, an organization named Isha Yoga foundation was established in 1992 by Jaggi Basudev in Coimbatore, India he is also popularly known as Sadhguru among his 9 million followers.
The tradition of yoga is not an inchoate path but a complete way that leads to a peaceful and calm state. The isha foundation is defined as the comprehensive system that incorporates the ancient and modern science behind the yogic philosophy and present with valid reasoning and proper analytics among the ardent disciples as well as followers who are connected to the Isha foundation through the social media platform.
Inner engineering program
The profound knowledge of yoga and meditation is morphed into tangible steps towards the inner growth of the individuals. Sadhguru himself through the information and experience he had gleaned through developed the inner engineering program that springs the inner growth of the individual and helps in inner growth. Many people, mostly those who have experienced the bliss and peace through the practice of Isha yoga claim that it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to know own self through the practice of Isha yoga under the guidance of the living realized master of this time.
What is taught in Isha Foundation?
Just like any other yoga center yoga is the main component, similarly, at Isha Yoga Foundation the core of doing yoga is learning yoga through experience is the main component. The course offered by the Isha Foundation aids in knowing thyself in such a way that life’s vitality increases by leaps and bounds, practitioners claims. Unlike, other forms of yoga, you do not need to leave your family and house to join the movement of the Isha Foundation, however your spiritual life runs smoothly by remaining and enjoying your family and social responsibilities. Likewise, you will be able to gain personal growth and become highly conscious of time, energy, and space through the self-realization process in Isha yoga.
Isha Foundation runs many yoga programs that do not only include the arduous poses but also incorporate simple ideas like maintaining good postures, affirming that you are not body and mind, but energy, meditation, and other powerful ways of transforming the inner energy through the inner engineering program. In a bid to practice the small yet life-transforming work you do not need to have years of experience or knowledge about Isha yoga, a novice with can-do ability can easily practice this yoga form.
Keeping in mind to help every individual to keep up with the yoga, Isha Foundation has developed powerful yet simple techniques to help inner exploration and build inner strength. Therefore, Isha Yoga programs have touched every one life starting from tribal villagers to the highest earners executives, in which most of them are youths.
Benefits of Isha Yoga
We have compiled the benefits from the input of the Isha yoga practitioners and doing some literature reviews published in the websites and journals:
1.) Helps to relieve anxiety and stress by practicing AUM meditation.
2.) Aids in the stabilization of mind, body, and soul thereby keeping physical and mental health hearty.
3.) Stabilizes the whole system of the body.
4.) Energizes the body and the soul through the practice.
5.) Deceleration of the aging of the human body.
6.) Isha yoga Helps to reduce hypertension and keeps the blood pressure of the human in a normal level.
7.) Opening of the third eye of the human and seeing the next dimension of life.
by Tirtha Acharya | Sep 15, 2020 | Yoga
10 tips on How to choose yoga mat
A few years back, nearly a decade or two decades, there were no various options to choose for a yoga mat. At that time, there was only an option of PVC and it was highly sticky at that time, and not much comfortable neither undemanding at that time. Furthermore, there was not much option to color; either blue, red, or purple was only to choose from. However, the time has changed and there are many options to choose from.
The main purpose of choosing any sort of yoga mat is their stableness while you pose for yoga. Colour and pattern are a secondary component; nevertheless, they are also important in choosing a mat. For environment conscious customers it is equally important for the mat to be ecological and environmentally friendly. The stableness the mat provides is depended on the thickness of the mat, the surface texture of the mat, and what it is made up of.
In this article, we delve into the best possible way to choose your mat. By going through the article, you will learn the life learning skills of choosing the best mat for you that comes within your budget, matches your lifestyle, your habits, and priorities.
thickness plays an important role in determining your comfortable during your yoga practice. The perfect yoga mat is neither too thin nor too thick. The too-thin mat may end up banging during the crescent lunge of the yoga practice. The thick mat has benefited over too thin, however too thick mats will make you feel wobbly during the yoga practice.
1. Take your needs and desires into account
The type of mat you need is contingent upon the yoga poses you perform. Likewise, for many people, the desire of the person also plays a vital role to determine what type of mat is perfect for you and which type is not.
2. Type of yoga you practice
The yoga poses you do regularly determines the type of mat. If you are completely new to yoga, then it is usually recommended to by a comparatively lower quality mat. Who knows you may leave within a few days of practicing yoga? Likewise, if you are a seasoned practitioner then it is usually recommended to soft and cushioned yoga mats.
3. Place you practice yoga
If you are practicing yoga outdoors then the portability of the mat plays an important role, however, if you practicing yoga inside the home then the portability of the mat does not cause any sorts of problems.
4. Material
The material of the mat determines the longevity of the mat. It determines how much it yields and wears over time. Stickiness, environmental friendliness, and texture of the mat are contingent upon the material of the mat.
5. PVC: inexpensive and not environment friendly
6. Foam and rubber: Expensive but eco-friendly yoga mat
7. Cotton: Thin and eco-friendly and increases the grip by soaking sweat
8. Jute: Resilient and eco-friendly. Combined with other types of the mat
9. Texture
The texture of the yoga mat determines the traction and personal comfort of the practitioners. Sticky mats are useful to do intricate poses. Rubber and foams are the best choices to choose if you like an eco-friendly mat with less traction as they are smooth.
10. Size: The size of the standard form of 24”*68”. It is usually recommended to choose the yoga mat which covers your full body during posing for the Savasana or any other yoga pose that needs to be covered with the whole body.
by Tirtha Acharya | Sep 2, 2020 | Yoga
Importance of alignment in Yoga
Yoga Alignment Keep you in proper positions of your hand, leg, body, and right position of everything. It produces an optimal performance of your muscles and prevents you from the spine, joints, and muscles problem. While doing yoga asana it should take care of yoga anatomy & need to expand, contract, and take breath accordingly.
Yoga without proper alignment is not considered a good yoga practice. Alignment is in fact a process of creating an ideal relationship between the bones of the body and its musculature to maximize the efficacy—physical as well as spiritual to make the better movement of the body. The main gist of practicing proper alignment in yoga practice is to halt the unnecessary and advertently happening injury and prevent the strain on muscles, ligaments and tissues of the body.
The use of term alignment in yoga is to delineate the most precise way to perform any sorts of pose in a bid to increase the advantages and subdue the unnecessary injury of performing yoga. To create a sound and stable base to practice yoga, alignment is practiced most often. Most of the times, the outcome of any sorts of pain results due to doing any sorts of pose incorrectly, while others insidious—showing any sorts of symptoms slowly but in a baneful manner.
It is common to feel the wear and tear of the joints and tissues due to performing of uncanny, yet rewarding poses. It is necessary to create the proper alignment of our body to get the utmost benefit and rewards. In a bid to make optimal alignment, it is necessary to practice yoga poses in a correct manner by practicing them with proficient yoga gurus, so that yoga does not turn ominous if practiced incorrectly.
Significance of practicing alignment in Yoga:
1. An unharmed protocol is established
Due to unsafe practice, there is rife in baneful events. The reoccurring problem can only be minimized if we practice the best-advised protocol. Nevertheless, the unharmed protocol is not universal. The protocol is used practiced by understanding how to align yourself in a posture.
2. The connection with the body is made stronger
It is necessary to make a strong connection with the body to make your yoga practice fruitful. There are umpteen of positive effects of yoga on our body, which is achieved by practicing for a longer period. By practicing yoga by making alignment with the body can make the whole process smooth and easy.
3. The benefits increases by manifolds
The main purpose of practicing any sorts of asana is to gain all the positive effects that yoga can offer to you. If all the prerequisites are fulfilled you will be achieve what others have not benefitted from. For example: Simply by aligning the pose you could reap the benefits that you could not otherwise by simply practicing other poses.
4. Practicing proper alignment helps you to enjoy the moment to the fullest
It is not a cup of tea to focus fully while practicing yoga at home. Most of the times it is anything but easy to fully concentrate on yoga practice. Unnecessary thoughts might pop up on your mind and disturb the practice. Sometimes, you may be disturbed with the unnecessary noise outside your home. However, practicing yoga along with fulfilling all the protocols of alignment aids you to be in the present moment and enjoy the moment to the fullest.
5. Corrects in Cultivating Healthy Habits
Healthy habits are prerequisite to achieve the some deemed to be unachievable goals. It does not matter whether it starts from a micro habit and builds to the life-changing habits, or directly hits the mega habits. Correcting the alignment starts with focusing on yourself. The correct alignment helps you to be aware of the movement as well as moment. Focusing on the healthier movement aids you to cultivate the best habits in you and aids you in building good habits outside of yoga.
Which Course is better for Alignment?
Normally, yoga teacher training completely focuses on alignment in yoga, anatomy, the science of asana, breathing techniques, when to contract and when to expand, when to fold more an when to less, how much of force our muscles can bear and almost everything on how to do yoga and how to teach. So, we recommend you to Participate in beginner or advanced yoga teacher training course near you or in Nepal Yoga Home if you are free.
