Yoga Plus Therapies

Our hatha yoga

With OUR Hatha Yoga:

Learn to relax, find stillness & calm by:

Intelligent Progression of your practice.

Modifying the practice for your needs, fitness & health status.

Learning to feel safe in your body, releasing tension & moving with comfort.

Bringing your awareness into the BODY.

Bringing your awareness to the BREATH.

Bringing awareness to all the SENSES.

Bringing awareness to the FEELINGS.

Centering your self.

Grounding your self.

Developing mobility & strength.

Learning Self Regulation

• SHIVA – Once upon time there was the first & great yogi called SHIVA… he danced the first yoga posture… demo – unknown origin.

• Indus Valley civilisation – Harappa & Mohenjodaro – Around 5000 years ago in Northern India was a great civilisation in the Indus Valley (now Pakistan) – a civilisation called Mohenjodaro & Harappa, where they discovered statues representing yoga postures. A seal of Pashupati in Yoga cross-sit. Yes, yoga appears to be pretty old.

• The Vedas – The sages got together and recorded wise knowledge in books called the Veda. The word yoga was first mentioned in the most ancient sacred text called the Rig Veda. The Vedas are a set of four ancient sacred texts written in Sanskrit.

• The Upanishads & Om – From this a short version called the  Upanishads – composed from the 5th to the 2nd centuries BC – here we are first introduced to the concept of OM – universal sound -The word OM is so much powerful that this single word can produce powerful and positive vibrations which allows you to feel the whole universe. It has the start, continuation and end and silence of sound vibration. An affirmation of life – Yes!

• Patanjali & The Yoga Sutras – This was all a bit much and man called Patanjali put together concise book called the YOGA SUTRA… dated from 2nd century BCE to 2nd century AD. Approx the same time as the Buddha (563 -483 BC) and Alexander the Great (336-323 BC).   

• Monks vs Householders – Tantra & Abhinavagupta – This really suited the monks, but what about all the others – so started TANTRA in early AD – this is where the chakra come from. We will do a meditation about this later. – Abhinavagupta was a philosopher & mystic who exerted strong influences on Indian culture from the Kashmir Shaivism tradition (980-1020 AD)

• Overlap of traditions & the great travels overseas – travel to Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, China. Shaolin monks from Bodhidharma in the (300-500 AD. )Yoga overlaps with many of the ancient Indian traditions eg. Martial arts, dance, music, architecture, etc.

• Hatha Yoga, body health & energy health – They began to appreciate how important body health was in the process of yoga – so HATHA YOGA rose in prominence. Hatha relates to sun (ha) & moon (tha) and also movement of energy through the body  – it’s about inner balance – middle ages. Naths (Gorakhnath, Matsyendranath) & Swatmarama.

• Swami Vivekananda & the West – A big conference in the 1890s saw yogi called Vivekananda introduce yoga to the west.

• Early 20th century – Krisnamacharya & his 3 main students – A few yogis began spread yoga left India to spread out into west in early 20th century  – Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois & Desikachar

• Late 20th century – Trendy with Madonna in the 90s – Yoga became trendy with Madonna in the 90s.

• 2015 – Mainstream – 170 countries agree to International Yoga day June 21 st – Now   yoga is mainstream – in around 2015 over 170 countries including Australia agreed to the establishment of World Yoga Day – in celebration of all the benefits yoga can give the world. Yoga is accepted in most cultures through out the world.

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