Yōgarūḍa

04/01/2023

Take an upa yoga session for diabetic patients ...

02/12/2022

Had a wonderful opportunity to take a yoga session for budding Indian tennis players at Topspin academy.

23/10/2022

Namaskaram

I had always disliked Hatha yoga. I was never flexible enough to really enjoy hatha yoga. Hence I was never consistent with it, and it was always a pain to restart my hatha yoga practices.

I wanted to go through the Naga consecration process without the body being a hindrance. As Naga Pratishtha was nearing, I decided to volunteer for Yogasanas and Angamardana class conducted by Varun anna.

I explained my issues with Hatha yoga to Varun anna, and he helped me structure my practices in such a way that I can remain consistent without getting overwhelmed by the number of practices.
Because of this, I was able to keep up with my practices, and Naga pratishtha was a wonderful experience. For the first time I sat for hours at a stretch with very minimal discomfort in the body.

I have slowly started to enjoy my journey with Hatha yoga. Thank you so much for your guidance and support!

Dilip Hegde

06/10/2022

When it comes to the transmission and teaching of yoga, Sadhguru has laid down a cardinal rule: “Without a committed atmosphere, there should be no transmission of yoga.”

Illustrating the utmost importance of this aspect, Sadhguru tells us an incident from his own life: “To tell you to what extent this holds, I must tell you this… I hope you understand this in the right perspective. My mother was ill many years ago. We knew that she was going to die. My mother was spiritually inclined and as her death came closer, she said, ‘I want to experience meditation.’ I said ‘Okay, I'll organize a class in the town, you come.’ She was in a bad condition but according to me, she could come and do it. But my father being a physician said, ‘No way is she going to leave the house for three-and-a-half hours and sit there. Do whatever you want in the home, but no going and sitting in the class.’ He is the senior man and you know how it is… but my mother repeatedly expressed, ‘I want to experience meditation.’ I said to her, ‘Convince him and come somehow. Anyway you are going to die. What is there if you fall dead in my class?’ She wouldn't have fallen dead and I would have made sure that she experienced something truly worthwhile but this didn't happen.”

“Twice I fixed programs so that it would be convenient for her to come and attend, but it didn’t happen. I refused to teach it at home in an uncommitted atmosphere. I am not interested in teaching any yoga to a mother or sister. If you sit with me you have to sit right. Otherwise there is no question because it will not be what it should be. That is how it is held, not because of some extreme attitude, but because we know the implications of what it is.”

Source: https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/blog/article/making-hata-yogi-committed-atmosphere

21/09/2022

Namaskaram,
It’s very difficult to share/express my current experience of life. But I can say that there is a huge transformation with in and out from the day I did my first isha program to till now. Surya Kriya was my first program with Varun Anna , I simply went with a yoga mat, questioning myself why I need to wake up early, driving far distance in winter mornings. At the end of the program I decided to register for his next program of Angamardhana. Decision of joining next program was not of enthusiasm or any act of completing all programs. Surya kriya had already made little impact on me that time. I never had that experience before. I was calmer, happier, stable after Surya kriya.

Teacher like Varun Anna, experience of surya kriya didn’t stop me for attending all Hatha yoga programs.

My current state of my body, mind emotion are very stable. Day by day I am becoming happier, calmer, healthier with hatha yoga. I do not feel like missing my practices one day also. I wish everyone experience the benefits of Hatha yoga.

Pranam,
Nitin

16/09/2022

When we say sadhana, we are not talking about any particular aspect. We are talking about using every aspect of life – both internal and external – so that it is a continuous nurturing for your life. Because the very nature of a human being is such, unless there is some dynamism, some movement in his life towards betterment within and outside of himself, he will feel frustrated. He has to keep moving to a newer and newer possibility. Sadhana is that which facilitates that.

Everything can be sadhana. The way you eat, the way you sit, the way you stand, the way you breathe, the way you conduct your body, mind and your energies and emotions – this is sadhana. Sadhana does not mean any specific kind of activity, sadhana means you are using everything as a tool for your wellbeing.
- Sadhguru

Have you brought in any Sadhana in your life ?

12/09/2022

Had the opportunity to conduct a upa yoga session at the same college I passed out from. Its amazing to see some of the faculty and students of the college invest some time for their own well being.

Are you willing to invest some time for your own well being ?

hathayoga

05/09/2022

Had the privilege to take a Upa yoga session for the testing and maintanence unit of the Indian Air Force thanks to Isha Foundation Bangalore.

Have you learnt any yoga practice?

01/09/2022

Kriya yoga is a very powerful way to walk the spiritual path, but at the same time it is a very demanding way. What it demands out of a person is so tremendous. For a modern educated person today, kriya yoga would be inhuman because it needs that kind of discipline and a certain exactness about everything. Most people don't have the body, the mind or the stability of emotion for the kriya yoga path anymore because right from childhood, people are in too much comfort. Comfort does not mean physical comfort. Sitting in a comfortable chair is not an obstruction. But your whole being is seeking comfort always, that is a great obstruction. If you are sitting on something which is comfortable, enjoy it – there is no problem about it. But if you are constantly seeking comfort, then that kind of mind and emotion is unsuitable for the path of kriya yoga. Kriya yoga cannot be done with people who are loose, people who talk “freedom” everywhere, “Am I not free to do this, am I not free to do that, can't I eat this, can't I sleep there?”

- Sadhguru

Source: https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/wisdom/article/kriya-yoga

**ra

26/08/2022

t happened to a philosopher: he was going about with great strength, “Everything is maya, don't bother about anything. The whole world that you experience is all illusion.” Once it so happened, he was walking with two of his monks. A rabid monkey which had gone crazy started chasing him in full fury. The philosopher just screamed and ran. After a while the monkey found some other attraction and went away.

The philosopher stopped and realized that all this “maya teaching” suddenly fell down. “Monkey is also maya, monkey's madness is also maya. Monkey is going to bite me, that is also maya. Why did I run like this?” It just hit him so strong. From then on, he was never the same man again.

So talking about the illusory nature of the world, or talking about the Creation and Creator, or believing that the world is like this or that, is not gnana. Gnana yogis cannot afford to believe or identify themselves with anything. The moment they do, the sharpness and effectiveness of the intellect is over. Unfortunately, today in the name of gnana, people just believe so many things – “I am atman, I am paramatman.” They believe in how the arrangement of the cosmos is, the shape and size of the soul, how it will transcend; they read all this in books. This is not gnana yoga, because you are just believing something. People who walk the path of gnana are people whose intellect is such that they are not willing to believe anything, nor do they disbelieve anything. “What I know, I know. What I do not know, I do not know.” This is gnana.

-Sadhguru

Source:
https://isha.sadhguru.org/au/en/wisdom/article/gnana-yoga

25/08/2022

Karma yoga has unfortunately been described as service, but it is not so. It is a way of undoing the impressions that you have gathered. If you can joyfully involve yourself in any activity, that is karma yoga. If you do it with great effort, only karma will come, no yoga will happen!

Generally it is through various activities that you perform that you get entangled and enmeshed with life. But if the activity becomes a process of liberation instead of entanglement, it is karma yoga. Whether it is work or walking on the street or talking to someone, the nature of the activity is not important. When you do something only because it is needed, where it does not mean anything to you but you are capable of involving yourself as if that is your life, it transforms you and action becomes liberating.

-Sadhguru

Source:
https://isha.sadhguru.org/yoga/yoga-articles-yoga/karma-yoga/

25/08/2022