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

Yoga Experience

easy method for yoga experience
one of the most popular word using in the world today is Yoga. but many people does not know what Yoga mean to it. you may be practicing yoga for many years without knowing  a great meaning behind it. Yoga means absolute union. how do we experience this 'union'? is it important to know this union? or you just want to get some muscle work out only?
whatever your aim behind practicing yoga is, in reality weather you know this or not, when you do some yoga poses your energy (prana) move into proper directions. or trying to open some areas which never had opened before in ones life. this is why every one experiencing yoga. or say that it is very relaxed. feel good after practice. who is feeling? who is relaxing? our inner nature is peace and relaxed. this is the truth. but our sense and mind goes outside world and bring a lot of tension to inside. but yoga helps to recharge our inner current nature. or the proper way of function of energy. it gives a lot of power and light inside areas where they really want to give you some experience. unfortunately this competition world or competition mind not understand this. but you can give an hour time to practice yoga. just start. no matter you need to know all the theories behind it. just start to practice. let your body get some recharge. day by day you will experience the truth. this does not mean that you need to do a lot of yoga poses and get sore muscles next day. you need to know how yoga poses work with your body. just give some attention to your body and breath while you doing yoga poses. yes the right word is 'attention'. i remembered one man went to see a Guru and asked what i need to do for real experience. he just replied ' attention'. every time he ask this question guru replied 'attention'. do not think that attention means something like in a military way. Not at all. just be here or be present. then body and mind become naturally get into an attention state. that only you need to practice yoga asana. this is the beginning step. day by day you practice like this you will find out that instead of fighting with your body to get a good pose or your aim can be to be perfect in some how in that pose, whatever it is to be an attention state or be present you will begin to experience yoga. for this no one need to be very intelligent or educated to practice yoga. the more you are ignorant about this world the more you experience Yoga...

Om santhi

what is sakti

according to tantra yoga sakti is energy. in between matter and consciousness is energy, the sakti, the creator, but energy or sakti does not create anything. she is transforming herself to into creation. she transform into matter. mind is a matter, so the same mind can transform into sakti. so dont need to think you are only this body or mind. there is no mind if you find your sakti. once you find your sakti you are not being with your mind or trying to find out mind and its problems. because mind can not find a proper solution for you. how you can clean dirt with dirt. you need to clean with pure with dirt. sakti is pure. she is only the pure form. so why we need to struggle with mind and spend whole life for controlling mind. you only need to express and experience your sakti. this is what yoga speak. when we talk about tantra or transforming energy, dont think wrong. because it is pure. a cultured person or civilization can understand, if your culture is not much developed you can not find the proper meaning of it. can be mis use it. that is what people misunderstood tantra. even in india. because people are fearful to talk truth. or fearful to express truth. everything they still control with same mind. mind is a monkey. it cannot stay with same idea. how can you go beyond this mind and find out your true bliss. if you want to feel that bliss you need to destroy your mind. destroy your images. destroy your vasanas. then only a oneness can experience. oneness means not two. as long as you think with your mind your feel this two. two never can not be together. it always oppose. that what happening everyone life. two. result is dissatisfaction. understand this truth. it is possible if you follow with your awareness. that is why yoga is a practice, not a theory something can do with your intellect. yoga is a practice then you feel this oneness or poornam. poornam means not beginning and end. a big circle, which consist everything in this universe.
now we need to think who is worrying? mind or body. or thoughts or memory. and is there any point to worry and hurry? not at all. because you are everywhere, so you dont need to think you are this and that. you are part of everything. but nothing affect you. if you are part of everything. how can you be separate. only separation make your discomfort. or two. the moment you think you are different than others and something you make separation. separation only the reflection of same mind. so distroy your mind. i can say easily ignore mind or not follow mind. then mind disappeared. you become amanaska. means without mind. then only you can see sakti.