Yoga and Peace

Yoga in a traditional way.
I am writing this page for yogis who are looking a place to practice yoga in India with a traditional Indian atmosphere. My yoga center is nearer to varkala beach and cliff.  Home feeling atmosphere at the center keep every practitioner to uplift them self and experience everyday practice. Yoga is a transformation. Body Mind and Consciousness. If it is not moving in this way years of practice just became fruitless efforts. For this purpose right training, right approach, right attitude, right atmosphere, right food etc is necessary.

Until you self experience there is no yoga at all. This is all depending upon a student how they begin to practice. How they begin to adapt day by day. Only an experienced teacher can patiently guide a student to achieve his goal.
I am giving individual and group training in my yoga centre varkala, India. You can find out this location just walk away from the beach. Or the way from varkala railway station to the beach. Kasi Varkala Yoga Shala, which is located 15 minutes walking distance from the varkala beach.
The yoga center can accommodate 8 students with serving vegetarian food and whole day training.
Making your body healthy and mind happy. Finally if you are looking to stay a place with peace and calm for yoga or relaxation you are welcome.
From August 2014 this year program will start. All are welcome

OM NAMASIVAYA

What is yoga practice

What is yoga practice?
Now we know that one of the most popular for of exercise in the world is yoga asana practice. There are millions of people are fascinated and experiencing this amazing ancient technique. As we say old is gold yoga is supreme and perfect. But still for a beginner or someone doing yoga long time too get confused on the path sometime. If you practice yoga just for physical fitness there is a chance for this tiredness or confusion. How to practice yoga it very important. In ancient time as we know yogis were not thinking to increase their flexibility or go for a yoga competition. It was not the purpose for asana practice. Their aim and attitude were totally different from modern man yoga practice. That does not mean that there were ignorant about new ideologies or modern man needs. They realized what a man need in his life and what are the causes of sufferings. But now we are not aware of those things. We are not still aware of why we practicing yoga. Even not aware of a single asana well how does it work with an individual. We are doing just as we do an exercise. May be you dont agree with this. But there are many people do like this, that category of people are confused or tired after a while. Nothing going to change unless you understand this principle. If someone use body just for asana practice without proper understand get tired as we do any physical workout.

Asana has a meaning it is stable and study. From body to Mind. Body need to treat comfortable and keep it queit. This help to make mind steady and quiet. Very simple. Next how to select and practice. That you have to learn from a teacher or Guru. Guru is better because he knows what really a student needs. Guru means an experienced or realized person. Moreover Sradha(great attention) Viswas (faith on action) are necessary. I think those two things most of the people lost. Because of our modern mind. But it is possible to discover yourself. Nothing has lost. Only our mind feels tired and hopeless. But the moment you begin to believe your self and go through Sradha and Viswas you will see a right path.

Om Shanti
omjisanthosh@gmail.com

Namaste
i am back again my home land kerala, India. Now i live a costal beach varkala. this is one of the rare cliff beach in India. I came this holy land first time to teach yoga in 2005. it was a time yoga begin to spread its message through foreign tourist who are travelling all over India from one to another destination. many of them like to try yoga at once when they go to India. As you know that India has very religious and diverse culture. So yoga also a part of it. From Tibet to Kanyakumari south tip of India it streaches her legs and arms to spread yogic culture. There were a time yogis used to traveled a lot from south to north and east to west visiting temples and ashrams. This is the way they exchanged yogic culture all over India. Later many yoga ashrams came up in this holy land. Now all the beaches you can see at least (so many now) one yoga centre. The need of yoga is necessary for a man who seeks freedom from his body and mind. The more yoga teachers and yoga centers coming up in India and abroad is a clear evidence and needs of yoga practice. Without language and culture yoga is stretching her message to all in the world. This makes an union or real connection among the people. We can greet each other Namaste. It is from the heart not from the head you need to say. An action with word which can make happiness for all. Punya vishayanam bhavena chitta prasadanam- Imagine pure thoughts makes happiness- Patanjali. Always think positve and let it guide you to perform right actions.

Om Tat Sat
Santhosh

what is mean by yoga asana ?

Namaste
This is one of the most popular word now this days we every one talk about it - Yoga. Basically yoga now this days create an image of body poses. According to yogic history Sage Patanjali has written the fundamental yogic text - Yoga Sutra- which means - yoga techniques. In yoga sutra define yoga asana is - stiram sukham asanam- that means a pose which is steady and comfortable. In this sense every pose or asana need to be steady and comfortable. Probably Patanjali meant to it for sitting poses basically for meditation purpose. However i just want to say that all the poses or asanas need to practice with this ease and comfort. Because this is one of the best way a practitioner can develop his body awareness and improve the quality of yoga asana practice. It is nothing with to show up maximum body flexibility or strength. Yoga asana is not for that purpose. If someone do regular yoga asana practice with dedication and devotion there will be a great union or yoga will take place every step. This can be done only without creating mental tension and with devotion. Devotion need to incorporate with every asana. Without that ego will take over the sadhaka or yoga student and the real purpose and meaning of yoga practice will destroy. This is very important basic things every yoga student need to realize.

The practice of yoga is improving the quality of human personality. The beauty of body and quality of the mind need establish by proper way of yoga practice. Patanjali says in another sutra- prayatna saithilyamasanam - means constant practice give successes in yoga poses. So along with all other practice firstly we need to train this body and get purified for higher practices. In this sense every yoga student need to develop bhakti or devotion. It is the way to attune body and mind complex.

How can one develop bhakti or devotion? Bhakti or devotion means to be part of any religion or be a follower of any sect. It is complete respect for the action what someone do for his or her self development. All the purposes and practices of yoga is to awake our own inner strength. All tools are using for this purpose only. Without understanding this truth, practicing yoga will not give much perfection all the way in life. Om Santhi.

OMJI

omjiyoga-standing poses/Saipan island

How to Relax !!

Relax,keep your brain silent and immobile

There is no end to the discoveries that one can make in dreams. But one thing is very important, never go to sleep when you are very tired, for if you do that you fall into a kind of inconscience and dreams do with you whatever they like wihtout your being able to exercise that least control. Just as you should alwasy take rest before you eat, I would advise you all to rest before you go to sleep. But you must know how to rest.

There are many ways of doing it. Here is one: first of all,repose your body, comfortably stretched on a bed or in a n easy chair. Then try to relax your nervous, all together or one by one, till you have a complete relaxation. This done and while your body lies like a limp of rag upon the bed, make your brain silent and immobile till it is no longer conscious of itself. Then slowly, imperceptibly pass from this state into sleep. When you will get up the next morning you will be full of energy. On the contrary, if you go to bed quite tried and without relaxing yourself, you will drop into a heavy, dense and unconscious sleep in which the vital will lose all its energies.

It is possible you may not obtain an immediate result, but persevere.

Pravritti and Nivritti - Two way of knowing the truth

Namaste Dear All
loka samasta sukhino bhavantu- means all the world may get happiness. here all the world means everything existing in this world. everything existing in this world need freedom. or wanting to get free.   as we human being are in the top list in this category. and we have a way to be free. everyone want to be free somehow. that means we are not happy with our present freedom. in yoga theory there are two way can use for this. one is pravritti - it is action. being with worldly life - our disires, ambitions, emotions all part of it. second step is nivritti - it is resignation from worldly life. the first step is easy and most comfortable for modern society. and it is not harmful and not dangerous to practice. the second one is nivritti is short way but need very careful guidance, so it is not an easy way for every one. bhagavat gita says the first step through pravritti man can attain moksha or realizing the truth. only need to consider all your action ' i am not the doer' in this way engaging worldly life and keeping in mind the aim of life get moksha. this is more suitable for everyone. even though we are aware about the essence and aim of yoga, it is not easy to accept and adapt the philosophical practice of yoga. but without loosing the main essence we can apply yoga in daily life as like pravritti or action.

how do we need to practice pravritti? as we find time for eating and sleeping everyday, everyone need to find time for little practice of yoga. here yoga means not only do some poses or breathing techniques. yoga is a state to be here. here means be present. in present there is an empty state. that emptiness is silence. expanding the silence is experiencing yoga. or the way you can built to get into the truth. for realizing truth you only need to keep present. with emptiness. no action their but there is a process. this process is natural. you are not taking any effort for that. you are expanding your emptiness state. even you sit or walk or do one yoga pose you can be empty. this is an action in inaction. here action mean a state where you are hold up. so there are an inner process but you are not purposefully doing action externally. the whole world exist in this empty state. world does not need any action from us. only we are misusing out action to destroy or many time disturb this emptiness or silence. the moment you disturb your silence you become restless. so hold here without any effort. it is stillness. from this stillness and empty state will create. this is the process as like a river flows without anybody direction. you need to flow like a river. finally it merge into the big ocean where you can enjoy bliss and supreme happiness

Om