How to practice Hatha Yoga
What is Hatha yoga? What are it’s elements? What are the benefits of practicing Hatha-yoga? What should one be careful about in it’s practice?
Yoga Concepts
Yoga comes from Bhārat, so it is important to understand the underpinnings of this complex and subtle life-system.
The conceptual underpinning of Yoga are cognitive. This means that one cannot intellectualise these concepts, but look at them cognitively and viscerally.
All this means that the ancient concepts of asmitā or self-worth, dharma or natural state, karma or action that creates debt, and other concepts that are applicable to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs, need to be rewired and understood as a life system, not as a religion or belief system, linked to a God, as propounded by other non-Indic major World religions.
How to practice Raja Yoga
What is Raja yoga? What are it’s elements? What are the benefits of practicing Raja-yoga? What should one be careful about in it’s practice?
Yama is the practice of behaviour control
What is yama, the first step of raja-yoga? What are it’s elements? Is it relevant in today’s life? How should you practice yama?
How to practice ahimsa or non-harming
What is ahimsa or non-violence? Is it complete abstenance of violence? If it is complete abstenance, then how does one function?
How to unravel secrets of truth or satya
What is Truth or Satya, the second yama of raja-yoga? How is it perceived? How can we practice it without shortchanging ourselves and others?
How to practice asteya or non-stealing
What is asteya or non-stealing? How does it impact our relationship with others? What is it’s relationships with integrity?
Understanding the secrets of brahmacaryam
What is brahmacaryam (sexual continence), the fourth yama or raja-yoga? Why is it important? How should it be practiced?
Success in aparigraha is reduced attachment
What is aparigraha? Why is the ability to renounce possessions important to the development of a person in Yoga? What are its elements?
Diet control (mitāhāra) is the sixth yama
What is diet control (mitāhāra)? Why is it an important element of self-control (yama)? What are it’s elements? How can one succeed in it?
Self-control elements that need practice
What is niyama, the second aspect of kriya-yoga of raja-yoga? How is it different from yama? How is it practiced? What are the elements of the practice?