Yoga Meditation Techniques For Your Body And Mind

One of the main thrusts of my other blog is that yoga meditation techniques are intended to unify the body, mind and spirit. Yoga as practiced for the past, oh, say, 5000 years or so was always intended to prepare the body for prolonged periods of meditation. Today, the vast majority practice yoga only as a form of physical exercise. At least that's the initial motivation for most. Many who start out with this intention, however, come to discover they are being led down a more spiritual path regardless of what they intended to do at the outset. I recently read an article by a fellow yoga blogger named Mel Johnson who wrote about a similar realization over at Lorton Patch.

Yoga Meditation Techniques For Your Body And Mind

People flock to studios and gyms to practice spiritual gymnastics, yet yoga ultimately has little to do with exercise. That’s a western adaptation. And of course it’s popular because westerners like to be in shape, which is not news to most Indians.

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Not about exercise? 

Yoga is about concentration, separation, isolation and not union. It's not about joining the mind-body, but about transcending the mind-body problem.
The yoga text that’s most widely read in the west is the Yoga Surtras of Patañjali. The most quoted sutra in this text is the second sutra, which says that “yoga is the cessation of the modifications of the mind-stuff”.

More to read of this original post at lorton.patch.com:

Yoga meditation techniques can bring unification and tranquility to the mind and body. The fitness aspects are a given, but why should anyone stop there. The regular practice of yoga will, sooner or later, beckon for you to go further and develop yourself mentally and spiritually. Why not take a few extra steps and see what's just over the next horizon or hilltop. You will be amazed!

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