The Origin of Yoga, best we find out some background here!

This is the final in this series on yoga, and what a better way than find some info on the origin of yoga.

So have a quick read and hopefully you will get a pretty good idea of what yoga is all about and wether it will help you or not.

Yoga in my view is definitly a great way to help you on your way to living the good life and certainly helped me in my business dealings and working along and with other people.

I will write another post on how yoga helped me in business, in the meantime enjoy the origin of yoga.

Images of a meditating yogi from the Indus Valley Civilization are thought to be 6 to 7 thousand years old. The earliest written accounts of yoga appear in the Rig Veda, which began to be codified between 1500 and 1200 BC. It is difficult to establish the date of yoga from this as the Rig Veda was orally transmitted for at least a millennium.
The first Yoga text dates to around the 2nd century BC by Patanjali, and prescribes adherence to “eight limbs”
(the sum of which constitute “Ashtanga Yoga”) to quiet one’s mind and merge with the infinite.

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Hatha yoga? What is it and will it Work For You?

I often wondered will this yoga work for me and what the heck is Hatha Yoga?

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Well if you have read the previous two posts you should be starting to get the idea, so have a read and tell me what you think.

Over the last century the term yoga has come to be especially associated with the postures (Sanskrit asanas) of hatha yoga (“Forced Yoga”).

Hatha yoga has gained wide popularity outside of India and traditional yoga-practicing religions, and the postures are sometimes presented as entirely secular or non-spiritual in nature.

Traditional Hatha Yoga is a complete yogic path, including moral disciplines, physical exercises (e.g., postures and breath control), and meditation, and encompasses far more than the yoga of postures and exercises practiced in the West as physical culture. The seminal work on Hatha Yoga is the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, written by Swami Svatmarama.

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Yoga and religion, Do You Know The Connection? And Does it Help You?

I have often wondered, as I am not strong on religion will something like yoga be beneficial for me? will it work for me? Do I have to beleive?

All these thoughts go through your mind, so I thought I would do a short series on yoga and you can work it out yourself.

Thats what I did I now I am very confident on what yoga can do for me, so have a read a nd let me know what you think.

In the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jain traditions, the spiritual goals of yoga are seen as inseparable from the religions of which yoga forms a part. Some yogis make a subtle distinction between religion and yoga, seeing religion as more concerned with culture, values, beliefs and rituals; and yoga as more concerned with Self-Realization, i.e., direct perception of the ultimate truth. In this sense, religion and yoga are complementary. Sri Ramakrishna likened religion to the husk, and direct experience to the kernel. Both are needed, “but if one wants to get at the kernel itself, he must remove the husk of the grain.”

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