Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The Steps of Yoga

If you're serious about Yoga, and want to attain the highest levels of strength, relaxation and flexibility and want to take it to a 'spiritual' level, here're the steps you've got to cross one by one.

Yama and Niyama
The first tenet of yoga is daily practice till the ethics become a part of life. One has to believe and pursue a categorized course of training from anuvrata to mahavrata and subject oneself to a series of lessons in positive and negative principles, the observances (niyama) and the restraints (yama).

Asana and Pranayama
Postural training or the various physical exercises form a part of Hathayoga, which is essential to first enable one to keep fit, if s/he is not. These body-control instructions should be followed methodically and meticulously. The next part of Hathayoga is the respiratory control. The life-sustaining bio-energy can be regulated to attain a kind of immunity from natural elements only if one is able to acquire a mastery over his breath.

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