Modern science is proving to you that the whole existence is just one energy. The converse of this is the science of asanas. So innumerable asanas are possible. Q.27 Are you a religious or a spiritual person? What we give for one person, if it is given to you, it may not work well for you because that person is so much heart and this much head. You have to work at it and work at it and work at it; otherwise you must be happy doing the circle. If you open up and see the whole circle and the way you are going, it looks like a circus. Yoga means to open up the circle and stretch it out like a straight line, so that if you follow the line you will go somewhere - you are not going round and round. In other words, one half of your lung is hanging out there. There are other dimensions to this, but to put it simply, just by observing the way somebody is sitting, you almost know what is happening with them. Guruji has a wonderful life story of humble beginnings and many obstacles overcome in the way of poverty and ill health, to triumphant endings as he established what became Iyengar Yoga.

Hatha Yoga is not exercise. What is Hatha Yoga? 9. How is Yoga different from physical exercises, aerobics etc? So it is important that we bring back classical Yoga as it was. These compulsions will suddenly come back if you just break the sadhana, because nature is not going to release you so easily. What Yoga means is to move towards an experiential reality where one knows the ultimate nature of the existence, the way it is made. Right now the number of people practicing Yoga is growing in a big way. There are so many billions of people on the planet, but everyone took this form - two legs, two hands, two eyes. The conjunction of Jupiter with either Mars or the Moon giving rise to auspicious yogas also pave the ground for Raja yoga-formation, however, Ramanuja states that in these two events the person will be fortunate and prosperous in the dashas of Mars and the Moon but Jupiter's dasha will be ordinary. It is just that a scientist has never experienced this - he has arrived at it through mathematical deductions; a religious person has not experienced it - he believes it because it is written somewhere or has been said by someone.

If you are going in circles, it just gives you an impression that you are going somewhere but you are not really going anywhere; you are going through the same thing again and again. The more you are identified with your physical system, the more cyclical you are. While in vinyasa flow classes there are more poses which are moved through more quickly. There is a huge volume of memory - genetic memory, evolutionary memory, elemental memory, atomic memory, karmic memory, inarticulate memory, and articulate memory. Repetitive cycles of compulsiveness are happening because there are various types of memories in the system. If you watch carefully enough, even the situations that you face in your life come in cycles. I even noticed some improvement in my photos-nothing dramatic, but I definitely looked more awake and fresh. If this memory was not there, your body would not even take a form.

When you were in your mother’s womb, your body knew it has to take on this form. Yoga is not about bending and twisting your body or holding your breath. This is not just in terms of breath. In terms of price versus production cost, what is yoga bottled water puts Big Oil to shame. In the documentary film Thirst, authors Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman demonstrated the rapid worldwide privatization of municipal water supplies, and the effect these purchases are having on local economies. Drink water before, during, and after class to stay hydrated. The exercises practiced in each class are aimed at meeting the goals and needs of our students. Retreats are also popular in Christian churches, and were established in today's form by St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), in his Spiritual Exercises. But what the trees are exhaling right now, you are inhaling; what you are exhaling, the trees are inhaling. Planets are going around the sun, the solar system is moving, and everything in the galaxy and the cosmos is cyclical. The word "ha" means sun, "ta" means moon.