05 Jan 2008 Melle, Germany
Category: Yoga
In my lecture this evening I was talking about yoga. What is Yoga? Often I hear "I do Yoga daily, two times a week or four times a week".
Once I was invited in a fitness center to give a lecture about Yoga. That was also my first experience, giving lecture in a fitness center. It was a very new scene for me. There were many machines for building muscles and many people sitting on these machines, in front of them the TVs and in the ear the earphones! Everywhere I see this and then there is also a small group standing there waiting for me to tell them about Yoga.
And I said "It is good that you invited me here but you have to know that Yoga is not only the physical exercise. It is much much more than that!"
The word 'Yoga' is from Sanskrit and the literal meaning of it is 'union'. This is Yoga. When you are in Yoga then it is your life. You are living in Yoga. It is not about one hour, two hours, two times or three times. It is a lifestyle. When you are in Yoga then your everything is Yoga. It doesn't matter if you are sleeping, eating, drinking, walking, talking. It is in everything. Then it becomes life. I wouldn't say doing Yoga, but being in Yoga. When your soul wants to make connection with its source, from where it comes. When the soul wants to makes this union.
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Hi! I just read a number of your articles on teaching yoga and living yoga. As a yoga teacher and studio owner, these are the words I need to hear. I have been feeling down and disconnected and need to focus on my living of my yoga and not as a business. Thank you for your wisdom. I can't wait to read more! Yours, Maya
Reply By Maya Kowalcyk on January 16, 2017 21:20
I started doing yoga in a mostly physical way, but I think that unconsiously it guides you in a different direction. It will move into other areas of you life and then become a way of living.
Reply By Rachel on April 24, 2011 06:37
You're right, it is an industry. Sad how things change. Almost as soon as something breaks through to become good, it is changed and steers away from it's purity. That why we have to keep searching for pure good.
Reply By Yogita on December 26, 2010 01:24
Unfortunately Yoga have become an industry instead of becoming life style. People talk like Yoga is many billion dollars industry.
Reply By Swami Balendu on December 07, 2010 06:24
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