Why do you not teach classical yoga in our fitness clubs
Sport And Fitness / / December 19, 2019
Yoga for 90 minutes
Yoga for pregnant women, fat-burning yoga, yoga for body shaping, yoga for elastic priests yogoterapiya yoga to increase the IQ, yoga... I'm sorry, it's hard to stop. All these phenomena can be grouped under one name - "Yoga in Russia."
If you ask the average visitor yoga center, why he does yoga, he will answer something like: "To maintain a healthy body and spirit", "self-development", "In order to cope with stress. " Or even find some excuse. And in general, would be right: it is with this promise popularized Indian spirituality, wave coasting on Russia after the Soviet collapse. yoga centers began to grow like mushrooms after rain, and to the east razomlevshie gimmick population Orthodox Russia suddenly became a chorus singing "Om, shanti, om", cross-legged on the glamorous thermoplastic rugs. After all, beautiful lotuses.
To become a teacher of yoga, it is sufficient to overcome the month course: skim the Sanskrit alphabet and learn pranayama course for beginners.
After that, you can safely go to teach people, lack of experience is unlikely to embarrass the employer. In fact, not to invite the Indian guru, when the demand for spiritual pumping almost outstripping supply.
yoga centers - these are places where people without a certificate of teacher meets a man with a certificate. There they studied the tip of his nose, he sings misunderstood words and gymnastics. After the session, the spiritual grown and attained internal balance, they are sent to the outside world, full of challenges, stresses and destroying the harmony achieved factors. Then to repeat the cycle.
The Soviet Union was an effective version of yoga. It was called charging. And stress shot effectively and improved health and harmony in life after exercise appeared. Some even practiced today.
Read classics, gentlemen!
Why all this pathos ornichesky? The original teachings of yoga and those practices that have developed in Russia and in the West, and proudly called hatha yoga - are two different things. Of course, should not be exaggerated. Surely there are a few cases in which a teacher tries to correct accents and convey to the public the original idea.
Classical yoga - a philosophical school of ancient India. At the core of its teachings are "Yoga Sutras" sage Patanjali. Hatha yoga - the latest generation, but it is a continuation of the tradition of classical yoga. Hatha is really geared more towards work with the body, but its theoretical propositions are not contrary to the original teachings, and are based on it. That lack of knowledge of the theory in the West, as well as its distortion of doing yoga practice itself meaningless.
serious philosophical questions raised in the text "Yoga Sutras". World in accordance with the teachings of Patanjali, is the result of compound Purusha (consciousness) and Prakriti (nature). Consciousness passively passively, but metaphorically, it is pure light. Nature dynamic, but it acts like an automatic mechanism. Their contact is described as a union of blind and legless: only together they can be realized.
Universe The problem is that Purusha begins to identify itself with Prakriti. It takes its manifestation of their own.
We believe that our body, mind, will, emotions - the unconditional part of our "I". However, it is not.
Consciousness is not a person. Neither physical things nor mental phenomena have no relation to consciousness. It is pure light, spotlight, illuminating what is happening on stage.
Man's task in this situation - to know their non-identity of the body and mind. They generally do not matter. This bone, which we must use in order to come to an "I".
Notice how hard it is at odds with what is taught in the schools of yoga, which is cultivated in Western values "in a healthy body - healthy mind". For the sage who has reached the goal of classical yoga, still, his body healthy or unhealthy, whether it is suffering from depression or whether it is happy, hanging there with his Bochkov fatty growths or not, because neither depression nor pain, nor even in the minds of fat there.
Imagine the sea at night. The waves shake the water, because of what is set in motion and the moon reflected in it. But reflection is not the moon itself, which is fixed and always calm. Similarly, a person takes mind fluctuations of vibrations of the "I". The goal of yoga - discover the self-sufficiency of the Purusha, his complete independence from Prakriti. That is, the fat on the sides. Why get rid of it, if neither side nor the oil are not yours?
Through thorns to yoga
Thus, the purpose of yoga is to achieve absolute knowledge. In the text of Patanjali enumerates the elements of yoga practice, the main of which is called three-stage concentration. Asana (postures) and breathing practicesWhich constitute the core of hatha yoga, are referred to as adjuvants. This is only the first step towards the ultimate goal.
Yes, in practice people will feel the positive psychophysical changes. However, this is only a side effect. It is not possible to practice yoga to improve health. This is a complete perversion of the meaning of philosophical doctrine. Means here becomes the target. Something from which should be abandoned, there is need to improve and develop. It's like buying chess to put the board on the stove kindling and shapes to hang on the tree as an ornament. Or enroll in Harvard University, then to get a job as a janitor in the "McDonald's".
Yoga - this is not the way to healing and not the path of spiritual development. It is all about the other, and to understand this more, you need a certain intellectual effort.
Yoga originated in a completely different culture and religious tradition, built on certain values. When the elements of a tradition fall into someone else's cultural field, they immediately adapted to local standards of thinking, driven by habitual patterns. And, quite possibly, it's not bad. Yet somehow Yoga helps pregnant women, clears the nasal passages, improves the figure. The only problem is that due to widespread distortion of ideas find their way to this doctrine becomes extremely difficult.
Classical yoga can be practiced anywhere, anytime. You do not need either mat or a person with a certificate or a subscription to a special institution. Walking along the street, and focusing on their minds, thinking about it, you'll be closer to the yogic ideal, than standing on his head in a pose stumbling lamb with controlling your instructor.
Another question is how much you need is a match.
Classical Yoga - the coolest life hacking, it gives the solution to all problems, absolute knowledge and happiness.
But the price for it Westerner might seem too high. You have to sacrifice your ego and completely rework the system of values.
In this article I will briefly set out the teaching of yoga. Interested the original teachings of classical yoga advise you to start with the "Yoga Sutras" Patanjali with commentary of Vyasa.