NERVOUS SYSTEM

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS MADE UP OF MANY NERVOUS ENTITLES. THESE CAN BE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS-NERVE CELLS AND NERVES. NERVE CELLS CAN GENERATE IMPULSES AND THESE ARE CARRIED BY THE NERVE FIBRES. THE NERVES WHICH CARRY IMPULSES TO THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ARE THE SENSORY OR AFFERENT NERVES WHILE THOSE CARRYING THE IMPULSES FROM THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TO THE MUSCLES ARE MOTOR OR EFFERENT NERVES. THE BRAIN WHICH IS LOCATED SAFELY IN THE SKULL IS THE MAIN CENTRE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. BIG BRAIN [CEREBRUM]: MOST OF THE BRAIN IS COMPOSED OF THIS.THIS IS GREYISH COLOURED WITH MANY CONVOLUTIONS OR FURROWS RESEMBLING A WALNUT WITH ITS OUTER COVER REMOVED. MANY CENTRES ARE LOCATED IN THIS. INTELLIGENCES,DESIRES,EMOTIONS,MEMORY, IMAGINATION POWER ETC ARE DERIVED FROM THE BIG BRAIN.THIS IS SEAT OF CONSCIOUSNESS.IN THE PRANAYAMA TECHNIQUE,THERE IS A LARGE PARTICIPATION OF THIS PART. SMALL BRAIN[CEREBELLUM]: THIS IS LOCATED BELOW AND ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE CEREBRUM.MAINTENANCE OF THE BALANCE OF THE BODY AND VOLUNTARY MUSCULAR MOVEMENTS ARE ITS IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS. LONG BRAIN[MEDULLA OBLONGATA]: THIS IS LONGISH AND IS LOCATED O N THE LOWER MOST PART OF THE BRAIN. THE CONTROL OF THE IMPORTANT LIFE-SUSTAINING FUNCTIONS SUCH AS BLOOD CIRCULATION,BREATHING ETC.IS CARRIED OUT BY THE CENTRES LOCATED IN THIS PART. APART FROM THIS,THE WORKING OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS CARRIED OUT INN THE BODY THROUGH THE NERVE FIBRES AND NERVES. AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM: THIS INVOLUNTARY PART OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS A CHAIN OF KNOTS OF NERVE CELLS SITUATED NEAR THE VERTEBRAE. IT REACHES UPTO THE WAIST IN THE CAVITIES OF THE CHEST AND THE ABDOMENT.THESE KNOTS OF NERVE CELLS AND NERVES ARE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AND SOME OF THESE KNOTS OF NERVE CELLS ARE CONNNECTED TO THE NERVES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM CONTROLS IMPORTANT ORGANS SUCH AS THE INVOLUNTARY MUSCLES,HEART,STOMACH,LUNGS ETC.THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM CONTROLS PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS SUCH AS BLOOD CIRCULATION,BREATHING,ETC. THE INFORMATION GIVEN HEREE ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ITS WORKING IS OF A VERY ELEMENTARY NATURE. THE WORKING OF THE BRAIN AND ITS NATURE IS SO COMPLICATED THAT MAN’S INTELLIGENCE HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM FULLY SO FAR. DURING EVOLUTION,MAN’S CEREBRUM CONTINUED TO BECOME BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BECAUSE OF THIS,HE PROGRESSED BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS. NOT ONLY IT IS BIG IN SIZE,IT IS GREAT IN ITS FUNCTIONING ALSO.IT CAN BE SAID TO BE THE ORIGIN OF WORLD’S CULTURE AND CULTURED LIFE-STYLED. THIS GIFT OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX HAS BEEN ACQUIRED ONLY BY HIGHER ANIMALS.IN NORMAL TIMES,THE CONTROL OF BREATHING IS DONE BY THE BREATHING CENTRE. IN PRANAYAMA,THE SAME WORK IS BROUGHT UNDER VOLUNTARY CONTROL. BECAUSE OF THIS,THE WORK AND AREA OF CONSCIOUSNESS [CEREBRAL CORTEX]HAS BECOME EXTENDED. THE BREATHING PROCESS WHICH IS IN THE HANDS OF NATURE,IS TAKEN OVER BY THE VOLUNTARY CONTROL SITUATED IN THE BIG BRAIN,AND THIS PROVES THE SAYING THAT THE SON[PRANAYAMA]EXCELS THE FATHER[NATURE]. DUE TO THIS CONTROL,BOTH THE AREA OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS CAPACITY ARE INCREASED. PURIFICATION OF THE CONSCIOUS LEVEL,EXPANDING ITS AREA AND MAKING CONSCIOUSNESS ALL-PERVADING IS THE ULTIMATE AIM OF YOGA AND ,IN ACHIEVING THIS, PRNAYAMA HAS A LION’S SHARE. THERE ARE BODY-MIND LEVELS RANGING FROM THE SUBTLE NERVE CELLS TO THE GROSS BODY PARTS IN THE HUMAN BODY. THE SEEDS OF THER GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS LIE IN THE IMPULSES OF THE MIND.THESE MENTAL IMPULSES ARE THE PRODUCTS OF INBORN TENDENCIES AND URGES. TOELIMINATE THESE URGES AND THEBY TO REDUCE MENTAL IMPULSES- IN OTHER WORKS,TO BRING ABOUT MENTAL STABILITY- IS THE PRIME OBJECTIVE OF PRANAYAMA. “STOPPING” OR “CONTROLLING” BREATHING-IN AND BREATHING-OUT i.e.ARRESTING THE PRANA THROUGH POORAKA,RECHAKA AND KUMBHAKA,IS A VERY GROSS PICTURE OF PRANAYAMA. THIS, THEN,IS THE EXTERNAL BREATHING;HOWEVER,THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF PRANAYAMA IS THE EFFECT OF THE DISCIPLINED EXTERNAL BREATHIG ON THE INTERNAL BREATHING OR INTERNAL RESPIRATION. THE CONTROLLING AND DISCIPLINING OF PLRANA AT THIS LEVEL WOULD BE THE REAL PRANAYAMA. THIS IS THE CORE OF PRANAYAMA.THE EXCHANGE OF OXYGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE,ACCEPTANCE OF THE GASEOUS WASTE PRODUCTS BY THE BLOOD ETC.OCCUR IN THIS AREA[INTERNAL BREATHING].IN PRANAYAMA ,LACK OF CATABOLISM AND NON-REQUIREMENT OF ANABOLISM ARE CREATED DUE TO THE STABILITY AND RELAXATION OF THE BODY AND EFFORTLESSNESS[CONSCIOUS DIFFERENTIAL RELAXATION]GAINED IN THE ASANAS. AT THE SAME TIME,THE DISCIPLINED,PORPORTIONATE,RHYTHMIC AND PLEASURABLE POORAKA-KUMBHAKA-RECHAKA MAXIMISE THIS STATE AND THE SPEED OF METABOLISM IS BROUGHT TO NEAR NAUGHT[ZERO]. THIS CONDITION IS THEN CREATED EVERYWHERE[i.e.IN EVERY ATOM AND MOLECULE,IN EVERY HAIR AND NAIL IN THE BODY.THE INNUMERABLE,BIG OR SMALL AND OF VARIOUS TYPES OF IMPULSES EMANATING FROM THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BODY AND GOING TO THE BRAIN,GET ENTANGLED WITH EACH OTHER AND ALSO ENTANGLE THE BRAIN. SUCH IMPULSES BECOME LESS AND LESS BY PRANAYAMA. AS A RESULT OF THIS,THE LEVEL OF THE MENTAL VIBRATIONS,THE REACTIONS OF THE BRAIN ETC.BECOME VERY LOW. WITH IT,DUE TO THE PROPORTIONATE POORAKA-KUMBHAKA-RECHAKA IN PRANAYAMA,THE IMPULSES GOING TO THE BRAIN BECOME DISCIPLINED,RHYTHEMIC AND PLEASURABLE AND,AS A CUMULATIVE EFFECT,THE M IND BECOMES IMPULSE-FREE,CALM AND STABLE,AND SSBECOMES FIT FOR MAKING IT ONE-POINTED FOR DHARANA. DURING PRANAYAMA THE MIND BECOMES STABLE. WITH ITS LONG PRACTICE,EVERYDAY,A TIME COMES WHEN THE BREATHING STOPS ON ITS OWN AND THE NECESSITY OF PERFORMING PRANAYAMA IS NOT FELT. THIS STATE IS CALLED “KEWALA KUMBHAKA” THIS KUMBHAKA TAKE PLACE NATURALLY. THEREFORE,THIS KUMBHAKA IS GIVEN THE HIGHEST RANK.THIS KUMBHAKA IS LIKE PATANJALI’S CHATURTHA KUMBHAKA.WHEN SUCH A KUMBHAKA OCCURS EVERY NOW AND THEN,MENTAL STABILITY BECOMESSECOND TO NATURE AND AS RESI;T “AANANDO JAYATE CHITTE PRANAYAMI SUKHI BHAVET” [GHERANDA SAMHITA 5/57] i.e. THE MIND BECOMES PLEASANT AND THE SADHAKA BECOMES EXHILERATED. WHAT MORE CAN A COMMON MAN DREAM OF ?

ANTARANGA YOGA

DURING THE LIFE STRUGGLE IN THE STREAM OF EVOLUTION,THE CEREBRAL CORTEX,DUE TO ITS INCREASING USE,HAS PROGRESSED MORE AND MORED. IT’S COMMAND-GIVING FRONT PART[PREFONTAL AREA OR LOBE] HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE DEVELOPED BECAUSE OF THE APPLICATION OF INTELLECTUAL WISDOM. PRANAYAMA FURTHERS THIS DEVELOPMENT.IN THE BUSY ACTIVITIES OF THE BRAIN,PRANAYAMA CREATES STABILITY.IN OTHER WORDS,THE FICKLENESS OF THE WAVERING MIND IS ELIMINATED AND THE HIGHER INTELLECT IS TABLISHED. THIS STABILITY IS A MUST FOR THE PRACTICE OF DHARNA,DHYANA AND SAMADHI STATES OF ANTARANGA YOGA. THE PRACTICE OF ANTARANGA OF YOGA “PURIFIES THE HIGHER INTELLECT AND BRINGS ABOUT SELF-REALISATION[SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT]”AND,THEREFORE,IN THE PRACTICE OF ASHTANGA YOGA,PRANAYAMA HAS ACQUIRED A UNIQUE PLACE. IN THE SAMADHI-LIKE STATE,ONE ATTAINS”MENTAL MODULATIONS ARE STABILISHED AND THE ACTIV E LIFE FORCE[PRANA] IS DISABLED” STATE.MANY GAIN THE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE BRUSHING EXPERIENCE OF SUCH A STATE IN THE KUMBHAKA OF PRANAYAMA.

ASTHMA AND YOGA

I shall never forget my wife’s first attack of asthma, she woke up with a horrible choked feeling and could not get enough air into her lungs and any attempt to breathe produced a high pitched wheezing sound. Her chest was rapidly moving in and out, naturally, she was very frightened. It was about 2 O’clock in night. I and my daughter were very much afraid to see the condition of my wife. Immediately I called my family doctor and he examined her and promptly gave her an injection. She was breathing normally within a few minutes after the injection .She felt as if she had been saved from certain suffocation. Doctor declared that it was an Asthma attack. Next day he recommended to test blood and evening we got report, doctor confirmed it was ALLERGIC ASTHMA and started his treatment. He recommended to take tablet regulary-3- times a day and by this tablets she got relief and her asthma was in control but I was worrying 3 tablets per day may effect the body of my wife and therefore I started to read many books on Asthma and decided to find out some way through YOGA.I joined YOGA VIDYA NIKETAN, MUMBAI for Diploma in Yogic Education. During my course I got excellent guidance from all side scientifically as well as yogic from my teachers and therefore I dare to write this article on “Asthma and Yoga” so that nobody will be afraid as I was at the time of first attack of asthma to my wife.

SOME BASIC ABOUT ASTHMA:

Asthma is disease of Respiratory System. The purpose of this information is to bring the reader to an awareness of the symptoms and condition of asthma. Those who have experienced asthma will, of course, be familiar with these facts, but it is hoped that they will benefit from a logical and ordered.

The basic cause of an asthma attack is contraction of the breathing tubes. This is accompanied by over production of mucus, further blocking the airway. The attack manifests itself as an excruciating breathlessness, especially during the exhalation production a wheezing sound.Like, diabetes, it is humorously said that Asthma also is more than a faithful wife. A wife may take a divorce but Asthma will never.

Asthma is a chronic psychosomatic disease like peptic ulcer, dermatitis or rheumatism. The term psychosomatic is used for those diseases in which emotional and psychic factors are closely and clearly related with the onset or exacerbation of the symptoms.

Asthma originates most commonly in infancy and less so in middle life and it occurs with equal frequency in both sexes during youth. However, males are more susceptible in later life than females.

There is also hereditary factor causes asthma but these do not render a cure impossible.

Nervousness is intimately linked with the disease. Worry, smoking and pollution are major contributing causes.

Asthma often occurs in the cold months of the year when the body builds up excessive amount of mucus and cannot burn it off. That is, the body does not generate enough internal metabolic heat to handle the cold climate and as a result mucus builds up and is not expelled from the body. This is combined with spasms of the bronchioles and bronchi, preventing sufficient air getting out. The result is breathlessness, wheezing, gasping and coughing.

This condition is aggravated by any thing which produces mucus, such as cold, and starchy carbohydrates or which requires extra oxygen such as exercise. Ultimately this disease has its roots in the mind, or we suppress mental energies they are eventually expressed through dreams, the personality or in disease.

Drugs alone cannot cure asthma; they can only treat the symptoms. In time, the bronchial muscles become accustomed to drugs and their effects are diminished. Only treatment of the cause can produce a cure. When you have cured asthma with yoga you will no longer need drugs.

YOGIC TREATMENT:

Most people in the world having an acute illness will do anything to find relief, usually in the form of drugs and other remedies designed to suppress symptoms. From the yogic and natural health point of view this can be a mistake. The disease is an attempt by nature to rebalance and heal the body, ridding it of accumulated toxins, chemicals and waste products that have been stored and are clogging vital capillary, lymphatic, nervous and organic channels. These impurities disturb physiological function, converting it to the pathological and distorting panic energy fields. The mind is affected in and reciprocal interchange with distorted body energies creating pain, tension and suffering. Disease in nature’s mechanism to right the capsizing human vessel and tp restore normal function. The process must be aided and not suppressed, so that it takes place in the shortest possible time with the maximum beneficial effects and the minimum amount of suffering. To prevent and minimize the pain of asthma and attack of asthma, Yoga is a best remedy.

REMEDY:

Because of its psychosomatic nature, no medical science can guarantee to cure the asthma by treatment of only drugs. That is why it is considered as a life-long trouble. The drugs, only give relief at the time of asthmatic attacks but they never stop the tendency. Yogic treatment in chronic asthmatic trouble is much more effective to minimize the severity and the period of attacks. It may not help when the attack is on. At the time of attack, one should take the drugs to get instant relief from difficulty in respiratoration but if one builds a healthy respiratory system, along with all other systems of body and get perfect balance of mind by continuous Yogabhyas, one can surely get relief from the chronic asthmatic trouble.

Points to Remember:

1} Learn the practices from a trained yoga teacher.

2} Follow the instructions properly.

3} Changeover to a suitable diet and time of food intake are
Important points to consider.

4} Yoga takes a person as an integrated unit, it never treats a
a single part or organ of body separately.

5} Yogabhayas helps a person to get a better functioning of his
Psycho-somatic vehicle.

6} Regular Yogabhayas helps the nature to cure the troubles
and brings a patient to the state of positive health.

7} Yogic therapy is not against medicine, sometimes it
substitutes and in some cases it works as an auxiliary
measure.

ASANAS:

VAJRASANA
SWASAN MARG SHUDDI
SHWANSANA
SULABHA SUPTA VAJRASANA
ARDHA DRONASANA
POORVA BHUJANGASANA
ARDHA SHALABHASAN
PARVATASANA
TADASANA
SIMHA MUDRA
JIVHA BANDHA
BRAMHA MUDRA
KAPALBHATI
ANULOMA VILOM
SHAVASANA

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE

ARTHRITIS
There are two types of common arthritis, one OSTEOARTHRITIS and another RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.

· THE WEIGHT FACTOR:
The overweight increases more stress and pressure on your joints. This increases Stress on the cartilage, which interferes with the bone, thus increasing the incidence of inflammation, swelling and pains.
If you take care of increased weight and try to reduce the weight, it will reduce the stress and pain you feel in your spinal column ,knees ,hips ,ankles and feet.

PRACTICE THE FOLLOWING ASANA……
1] BHUJANGASANA
2] DHANURASANA
3] PRANAYAMA

· STRETCH GENTLY FOR STRENGTH AND MOBILITY
YOGA teaches movements with proper joint alignment which helps brings deformed joints back to normal position as appropriate muscle are lengthened and strengthened.
1. Apply a muscle ointment at night before going to bed, you will feel much better if muscle isn’t stiff when you wake up in the morning.
2. Heat and Eucalypia mint also work for both OSTEOARTHRITIS and RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
3. Warm towels should be applied on the pain area or you can soak your hand or feet in warm water.
4. Wearing Copper bracelet can reduce pain in hand.
5. Take care, of your diet and drink carrot juice to reduce pain.

WADA PAV

· INGREDIENTS

½ cup - chana dal½ cup - bread crumbs2 to 3 - medium potatoes1 - medium onion½ cup - methi leaves5 to 6 flakes - garlic3 to 4 - green chillies1 tsp - chopped ginger1 tsp - lemon juice1 tbsp - oilhing and haldi for seasoningmustardsugar to tastesalt to taste


· PROCEEDURE

Soak chana dal for 5-6 hours.
Grind it coarse. Also grind chillies, garlic and ginger coarse.
Heat oil and add mustard.
When it splutters, add a pinch of hing and haldi, add ground masala, and fry a little.
Add onion, fry for a couple of minutes.
Add chopped methi leaves, fry for 1-2 minutes.
Add chopped potatoes, salt, sugar, lemon juice, mix well and keep aside.
Mix ground chana dal with batata bhaji.
Prepare balls, coat them with bread crumbs and fry in oil until golden.
It can be eaten with green chutney.

NUTRITIOUS INDIAN DISHES

NUTRITIOUS INDIAN DISHES

UTTAPPA

INGREDIENTS:
· FOR UTTAPPA BATTER:
Take four cup of rice, 1 cup of urad dal and ½ teaspoon methi seeds, salt to taste.
· VEGETABLES FOR STUFFING:
Cabbage, Carrot, Fresh Corn seeds, Simpla Mirch, Onion, Potato, Tomato, Green Chilies, and Coriander Leaves.

PROCEEDURE:

Soak rice, methi seeds and urad dal for 4 to 5 hours and then grind them well. Mix the batter and keep for 6 to 7 hours for fermentation. If you don’t have time then you can also us ready fresh dosa mix available in the market. Now grate cabbage, carrot, simla mirch, potato, tomato, onion, crush corn seeds, cut green chilies and coriander leaves. Mix grated vegetables, crushed corn seeds, green chillies and coriander leaves, salt to uttappa batter. Spread it on the fry pan and cover it with the lid for 2-3 minutes on slow flame. When upper side of uttapa becomes dry, put little oil on the sides. Turn it to other side and cook for a while, and your nutritious uttappa is ready. Serve hot with sambhar or chutney.

JYOTISH YOGA


MODERN LIFESTYLE SUFFERS FROM “STRESS”. IF ONE IS NOT PROPERLY INTEGRATED AND BALANCED ON PHYSICAL AND MENTAL LEVEL, ONE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COPE UP WITH STRESS. THE RESULT IS RESTLESSNESS AND CONFLICT IN THE MIND AND DISHARMONY IN ALL THE FUNCTIONS. THE ANXIETY AND WORRIES CAN EASILY DISTURB THE MIND WHICH LEADS TO VARIOUS PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS.

27 CONSTELLATIONSAND STARS IN SPACE INFLUENCE THE HUMAN BODY CONSTITUTED BY THE FIVE GREAT ELEMENTS, AS WELL AS THE MIND AND THE SOUL[THE INNER SELF] THROUGH COSMIC RAYS.THIS INFLUENCE IS FELT OR EXPERIENCED DIFFERENTLY AT DIFFERENT TIMES BY AN INDIVIDUAL ACCORDING TO HIS BODY CONSTITUTION. HAPPINESS OR PLEASURE FROM FAVOURABLE INFLUENCES, SORROW OR UNHAPPINESS FROM ADVERSE INFLUENCES. IN HIS MATURE STATE, THE INDIVIDUAL HAS GONE BEYOND THESE FEELINGS OF HAPPINESS AND SORROW AND THEN NOTHING IN HIS ENVIRONMENT CAN AFFECT HIM. IT CAN BE SAID THAT HE IS ENVELOPED BY A “PROTECTIVE AUREOLA” WHICH RENDERS HIM IMMUNE TO SUCH EXTERNAL INFLUENCES.

FROM JYOTISH WE CAN BE AWARE OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S ‘CHANDRA KUNDLI, LAGNA KUNDLI AND SURYA KUNDLI’ & CAN GET AN IDEA ABOUT DISEASES TO BE TAKEN CARE OF ,& ITS PREVENTION LIES IN PRACTISING ‘YOGA’…..IT IS SAID THAT
”PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE”. THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR????START PRACTISING TODAY FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE!!!!!

A LOT OF PROBLEMS WERE NOT NECESSARILY DUE TO MAJOR DISEASES BUT SUE TO INDIVIDUALS FAILURE ON THEIR PART TO ACCOMMODATE TO OR COPE WITH THE PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL STRESSES OF EVERYDAY LIFE,AS IT IS COMMON TODAY.

A SOUND MIND IN A SOUND BODY WAS THE KEY TO HEALTHY EXISTENCE AND YOGA WAS ALL ABOUT ATTAINING BOTH.

YOGA IS AN AGE OLD SCIENCE AND A WAY OF LIFE AND IS FULL OF TENSION REDUCTING REMEDIAL MEASURES WHICH ARE FREE FROM ADVERSITIES AND HENCE ONE OF THE SAFEST MEDICINES AVAILABLE TODAY FOR A VARIETY OF AILMENTS.IT IS NO LONGER RELATED TO SORT OF MYSTICISM OR LOOKED UPON AS A TRADITIONAL SCEINECE BUT HAS A STRONG SCIENTIFIC FOOTING AND THUS ACCEPTED BY THE MEDICAL AUTHORITIES, THE WORLD OVER.

“YOGA” HAS A UNIQUE ROLE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE.IT HAS THE POWER TO PREVENT PROBLEMS IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS BY TEACHING THEM TO COPE WITH STRESS AND STRAINS OF DAILY LIVING.IT ALSO HAS A VITAL ROLE IN TREATING CERTAIN DISORDERS VIZ. ASTHAMA, HYPERTENSION, INDIGESTION, AND INSOMNIA.

A LOT OF MUSCULOSKELETAL PROBLEMS, VIZ: BACKACHE, NECK PAIN, MUSCLE STRAINS, ETC RESULT FROM
NO MAJOR STRUCTURAL DERANGEMENT OF DISEASES BUT ARE ORDINARY INSUFFICIENCIES OF FLEXIBILITY AND TONE OF PARASPINAL,ABDOMINAL AND OTHER GIRDLE MUSCLES.THESE COULD VERY EASILY BE PREVENTED AS WELL AS ACTIVELY AND EFFECTIVELY TREATED WITH SIMPLE YOGIC PRACTICES.

YOGA IS NOT EXERCISE BUT AN ART OF RELAXATION.EXERCISE PROGRAMMES OR WORKOUTS ARE STRENUOUS, STIFF, JERKY AND FAST MOVEMENTS OF LIMBS GIVING RISE TO FATIGUE AND EXHAUSTION, WHEREAS “YOGA” IS A RELAXATION PROCESS WITHOUT DISTURBING THE NORMAL BREATHING PROCESS,AND ANY DEVIATION FROM THE NORMAL IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

THE YOGIC MOVEMENTS ARE DELIBERATE AND VERY SLOW, WITH ENOUGH TIME TO RECOGNIZE HIS /HER OWN LIMITS ON STRECHING HIS/ HER MUSCULAR CAPACITIES WITHOUT DISCOMFORT.

JYOTISHYOG--ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM "STRESS",DON' T WORRY