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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on June 22, 2013, 06:51:58 PM

Title: What does American Yoga mean?
Post by: Plane on June 22, 2013, 06:51:58 PM
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A person is said to have achieved yoga, the union with Self, when the perfectly disciplined mind gets freedom from all desires, and becomes absorbed in the Self alone.

Bhagwad Gita 6.16-18

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Yoga is the cessation of movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the seer's own form.

Patanjali

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Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.

Amit Ray

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Yoga practice can make us more sensitive to subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

Ravi Ravindra
Title: Re: What does American Yoga mean?
Post by: Plane on June 22, 2013, 07:06:23 PM
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.........................But the person who introduced more Americans to yoga than any other in those days was Richard Hittleman, who in 1950 returned from studies in India to teach yoga in New York. He not only sold millions of copies of his books and pioneered yoga on television in 1961, but he influenced how yoga has been taught ever since. Although he was a student of the sage Ramana Maharshi and very much a "spiritual" yogi, he presented a nonreligious yoga for the American mainstream, with an emphasis on its physical benefits. He hoped students would then be motivated to learn yoga philosophy and meditation..............


http://www.yogajournal.com/wisdom/467 (http://www.yogajournal.com/wisdom/467)
Title: Re: What does American Yoga mean?
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on March 17, 2014, 11:10:11 PM
You cannot sell some things to Americans as you would to Indians. What happened is that of many people who tried to popularize yoga in the US, this guy appealed to more people.