The Healing Power Of Yoga
Yoga is an Indian or philosophical doctrine, which includes a series of mental and physical exercises such as Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Kriya, meditation and or asceticism. The concept of Yoga can be used as “union” or “integration” as well as in terms of “harnessing” and “hooking” of the body to the soul for the collection and concentration to be understood. The path to follow to achieve these goals differs substantially, and determines the results.
Yoga is one of the six classical schools (darshanas) of Indian philosophy. There are many different forms of yoga, often with its own philosophy and practice. In Western Europe and North America, one when of thinks of the word yoga only physical exercises are related, the asanas, or Yogasanas. Some meditative form of yoga place special emphasis on mental focus, others more on physical exercises and positions and breathing exercises (pranayama), some directions emphasize asceticism. The philosophical basis of yoga has been formulated mainly by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads provide information about Yoga.
Even the older Upanishads (c. 700 BC) describe breathing exercises and the withdrawal of the senses (Pratyahara) in the Atman as an aid to meditation (dhyana).
The middle Upanishads, which originated around 400 BC, mentions several times the concept of yoga and also the essential elements of the later yoga system. The yoga here has close contact with the theories as they developed the philosophical system and practice of Samkhya.
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