The UrbanYogi - Mukesh Banka

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The UrbanYogi - Mukesh Banka Yoga is my passion; it challenges, strengthens, encourages and educates me on a daily basis.

This process of self-improvement and self-exploration that starts on the mat continues outside it also. Yoga practice for me is about learning to live a balanced life in modern urban world. I provide Yoga training for students of all levels using an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary styles. "The UrbanYogi" approach combines the physical aspects i.e yogasanas & yogic exercises; along with exploration of yoga’s potential for personal development and self- awareness through pranayama and meditation. This combination of Yogasanas, Pranayama and focused awareness & relaxation techniques would allow you to connect with your true self. Through persistence, patience and continued practice you would be able to lead a healthier life and understand your thoughts, feelings and reactions and benefits achieved on yoga mat and would begin to merge to the everyday life.

“My sadhana is without any motives or expectations but is to feel the life-force flowing precisely and evenly in each as...
20/08/2025

“My sadhana is without any motives or expectations but is to feel the life-force flowing precisely and evenly in each asana and breath.”

~ Guruji BKS Iyengar

My humble attempt at YogDandasana, without binding and using wall rope to stablize my weak ankle and guide external rotation of thigh. This is taken during today evening practice as a humble homage to Guruji on his punyatithi. I seek his blessings and guidance of Adiyogi. Many dandvat pranams to Guruji BKS Iyengar as he continue to inspire millions to take the arduous and yet rewarding path of yogasadhana as coded by Maharishi Patañjali. हरीः ॐ🙏🙏🙏

Today is the punyatithi of Guruji BKS Iyengar. I like many around the world remain forever indebted for all the knowledg...
20/08/2025

Today is the punyatithi of Guruji BKS Iyengar. I like many around the world remain forever indebted for all the knowledge he shared. I offer my humble pranams to beloved Guruji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Great souls like him don't die - they just move from the limits of physical body to the freedom of the spiritual body. He surely would keep educating, guiding and inspiring many more generations of yoga sadhakas. Sharing couple of his inspirational quotes

"Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature."

"Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness."

~ Guruji BKS. Iyengar

Wishing everyone a very blessed Shri KrishanJanamAstami. May Yogeshwar bless everyone with his unlimited Kripa 🙏🙏🙏
16/08/2025

Wishing everyone a very blessed Shri KrishanJanamAstami. May Yogeshwar bless everyone with his unlimited Kripa 🙏🙏🙏

Today is Death Anniversary of Shri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar (21 June 1938 – 8 August 2016), better k...
08/08/2025

Today is Death Anniversary of Shri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar (21 June 1938 – 8 August 2016), better known as T. K. V. Desikachar. He was son of Shri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, the most influential yogacharya of modern times. The father Son teaching method is called Viniyoga (application of Yoga) which focus on individual based teaching of Yogasanas, Pranayama, Dhyana and Vedic Chanting.

In 1976 TKV Desikachar founded the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM), a yoga therapy clinic and yoga center in Madras, India, as a non-profit public charitable trust, teaching yoga inside India. Under Desikachar’s leadership, the KYM offered teacher training and individual instruction in asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga philosophy, and Vedic chanting, as well as pioneering research into the impact of yoga on people suffering from schizophrenia, diabetes, asthma, and depression.
As the KYM had been primarily set up with legal and statutory provisions to operate only within India, barring it from any activity outside India, TKV Desikachar and his son & student, Dr. Kausthub Desikachar, in 2006 founded the Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation (KHYF), a partnership firm located in India. This was done to spread the teachings of Viniyoga® globally, as the tradition by then had many international students all over the world. The KHYF)is the worldwide headquarters, the anchor and official umbrella organisation representing the Viniyoga® tradition of Professor T Krishnamacharya and Desikachar globally.

I offer my humble obeisances and pranams to the great Yogi. May his teachings keep guiding yogsadhaks 🙏🙏🙏

यथा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रेऽस्तं गच्छन्ति नामरूपे विहाय।तथा विद्वान्‌ नामरूपाद् विमुक्तः परात्परं पुरुषमुपैति दिव्यम्‌...
03/08/2025

यथा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रेऽस्तं गच्छन्ति नामरूपे विहाय।
तथा विद्वान्‌ नामरूपाद् विमुक्तः परात्परं पुरुषमुपैति दिव्यम्‌ ॥

~ Mundaka Upanishad, Mundaka 3, Chapter 2, 8

Just as flowing rivers having reached the sea give up their distinct individuality in it, losing both their names and form, so, the knower being freed from name and form, created by ignorance, reaches the resplendent purusha (puruṣaviśeṣaḥ Īśvaraḥ) who is avyakta (one who can'tbe explained) hence beyond even the most exalted ones.

क्लेशकर्मविपाकाशयैरपरामृष्ट: पुरुषविशेष ईश्वरः ।तत्र निरतिशयं सर्वज्ञबीजम्।पूर्वेषाम् अपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छेदात्।तस्य वा...
28/07/2025

क्लेशकर्मविपाकाशयैरपरामृष्ट: पुरुषविशेष ईश्वरः ।
तत्र निरतिशयं सर्वज्ञबीजम्।
पूर्वेषाम् अपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छेदात्।
तस्य वाचकः प्रणवः।
~ पतंजलि योगसूत्र 1.24-1.27

Isvara is the Supreme Purusha, unaffected by klesha (misery of 5 types), Karma (3 types), Vipak or result of karma, and desires.
Maharshi Patanjali says that the seed of omniscience in Ishwar is at the maximum grown level. Isawara has the maximum knowledge which cannot be surpassed.
Isavara is the Guru of all the past Gurus, since He is not limited by time and is present at all times.
The word to designate Him(Isvara) is Pranava or OM.

अग्निर्देवो द्विजातीनां मुनीनां हृदि दैवतम् ।
प्रतिमा स्वल्पबुद्धीनां सर्वत्र समदर्शिनः ॥
~ चाणक्य नीति 4.19

For the brahmins, (who do fire sacrifice - hotra karma) fire is God; for the ascetics, the God is in their hearts; for those with little insight, it is in the statue; for those with equanimity, He is omnipresent!

अर्जुन उवाच
परं ब्रह्म परं धाम पवित्रं परमं भवान्।
पुरुषं शाश्वतं दिव्यमादिदेवमजं विभुम्।।
~ श्रीमद्भगद् गीता 10.12।।

Arjuna said You are the supreme Brahman, the supreme Light, the supreme Sanctifier. All the sages as also the divine sage Narada, Asita, Devala and Vyasa [Although Narada and the other sages are already mentioned by the words 'all the sages', still they are named separately because of their eminence. Asita is the father of Devala.] call You the eternal divine Person, the Primal God, the Birthless, the Omnipresent; and You Yourself verily tell me (so).

Can you Spot the "Involuntary Yogasanas"??? If yes comment below.Do you want to learn YogAsanas without someone trying t...
13/07/2025

Can you Spot the "Involuntary Yogasanas"??? If yes comment below.
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“There is an image in the world today that the Guru has a following and his students follow him like the Pied Piper. Thi...
13/07/2025

“There is an image in the world today that the Guru has a following and his students follow him like the Pied Piper. This is not good.
The true Guru shows you the way. You go your way and then you’re on your own, because you know your place and you are grateful.
I can always thank my Guru naturally and enjoy the relationship, but I do not have to follow him around, because then I am not in my own place.
Following the Guru’s destination is another way of losing yourself. The Yoga concept of Svadharma means ‘your own Dharma‘ or ‘your own way’.
If you try to do somebody else’s Dharma, trouble happens.
The Guru helps you find your own Dharma.”

~ YogGuru Sri TKV Desikachar

ईश्वरो गुरुरात्मेति मूर्तिभेदविभागिने । व्योमवद् व्याप्तदेहाय दक्षिणामूर्तये नमः ॥7॥ ~ श्री आद्यशँकराचार्य कृत श्री दक्ष...
10/07/2025

ईश्वरो गुरुरात्मेति मूर्तिभेदविभागिने ।
व्योमवद् व्याप्तदेहाय दक्षिणामूर्तये नमः ॥7॥
~ श्री आद्यशँकराचार्य कृत श्री दक्षिणमूर्ति स्त्रोत्र

Sri Dakshinamurti, the embodiment of Shiva, is revered not only as the Adi Guru but also as the One who imparts knowledge to all through the medium of numerous human Gurus.

The Lord manifests in a three-fold form as Iśvara, Guru, and atman, the Self. Mürti-bheda-vibhāgine, the One who remains ‘as though’ divided in this three-fold form.

Vyomavad vyāpta-dehāya - like the space that pervades everything, so too, the reality of Brahman pervades the Lord, Isvara, the Guru, and the individual jīva. Salutations unto the one whose form, deha, is all-pervasive like space, and who is nothing other than the saccidānanda Brahman.

Wishing everyone a very blessed Guru Purnima. On this auspicious day, I offer my most reverential pranams to AdiGuru Shiva in his DakshinaMurthi form; all the great Maharishis; Guruji BKS Iyengar, my Teachers -> for making me the vessel as a student to attain understanding of Yoga and to guide me to help my students on the path of YogSadhana. 🙏🙏🙏

You’re made of almost nothing and yet, you feel solid.Here’s a mind-bending fact: 99.99% of every atom is empty space. A...
06/07/2025

You’re made of almost nothing and yet, you feel solid.

Here’s a mind-bending fact: 99.99% of every atom is empty space. And since atoms make up everything—you, me, the Earth, every star and speck of dust—it means that the entire physical universe is built on... near nothing.

So what happens if we remove that empty space?

Physicists say that if you squeezed out all the emptiness from the atoms of every human being on Earth, the entire population—all 8 billion of us—would fit into the volume of a single apple. That’s not metaphor. That’s math.

But wait—how can something so hollow feel so solid?

It’s not the mass of matter that gives us form. It’s the electromagnetic forces between subatomic particles. When your hand touches a table, it doesn’t actually touch anything. The electrons in your skin repel the electrons in the table surface. That invisible force creates resistance—what we interpret as “solid.” You're never really touching anything. You're just hovering in force fields.

This illusion of solidity is so convincing that it lets us walk, build skyscrapers, hold a child, or catch a ball. It’s what gives shape to our world. But the truth beneath that illusion is stranger than fiction.

We are tiny islands of mass suspended in vast oceans of nothingness, held together by invisible threads of force. And yet, those forces are strong enough to build civilizations, memories, and dreams.

In a way, existence is like a cosmic magic trick. Beneath the surface, the universe is emptier and weirder than it looks. But somehow, from that almost-nothing, comes everything.

“Don’t think that unless you have reached the ultimate final pose then only the fruit comes. No. At every level, asana h...
02/07/2025

“Don’t think that unless you have reached the ultimate final pose then only the fruit comes. No. At every level, asana has something to offer.”
~ Prashant Iyengar Ji

A prominent YogGuru of modern times, Sri Prashant S. Iyengar Ji, son of Guruji BKS Iyengar, is one of the most revered yoga and yoga philosophy teachers worldwide. Currently, he serves as the director of the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) alongside Abhijata, Guruji's granddaughter.

Wishing Prashant Iyengar Ji a very blessed birthday. May he continue to illuminate the world with the traditional essence of yoga, inspiring millions of practitioners. Humble pranams to the great YogGuru.

रुके न जब तक साँस, न पथ पर रुकना थके बटोही।साँसों से पहले ही जो पंथी पथ पर रुक जाताजग की नज़रों में कायर वह जीकर भी मर ज...
28/06/2025

रुके न जब तक साँस, न पथ पर रुकना थके बटोही।

साँसों से पहले ही जो पंथी पथ पर रुक जाता
जग की नज़रों में कायर वह जीकर भी मर जाता
चलते-चलते ही जो मिट जाता है किन्तु डगर पर
उसके पथ की खाक विश्व मस्तक पर सदा चढ़ाता
पथ पर साँसों की गति से है मूल्य अधिक पग-गति का
पग के छालों से पथ पर यह लिखना थके बटोही।
रुके न जब तक साँस, न पथ पर रुकना थके बटोही।

अगणित कठिन पहाड़ नदी की राह रोकने आते
पर उसकी गति के सम्मुख सब चूर-चूर हो जाते
चलना ही, बढ़ना ही जिसके जीवन का व्रत-प्रण है
जग भर के तूफ़ान प्रलय-घन उसको रोक न पाते
साँसों की गति से, पग-गति से अधिक प्रबल गति मन की
पग-गति में मन की गति भर कर चलना थके बटोही।
रुके न जब तक साँस, न पथ पर रुकना थके बटोही।

जीवन क्या- माटी के तन में केवल गति भर देना
और मृत्यु क्या- उस गति को ही क्षण भर यति कर देना
गति-यति के जो बीच किन्तु है एक वस्तु अन्जानी
वही मनुज के हार-जीत के क्रम की अमिट निशानी
यही निशानी पथ पर जिससे जीत बनी मुस्काए
मुस्काकर स्वागत शूलों का करना थके बटोही।
रुके न जब तक साँस, न पथ पर रुकना थके बटोही।

~ गोपालदास नीरज

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