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The Eight Steps are:
YAMA : Conditional yoga behaviour, personal and social
NIYAMA : Attitude sublimate to yoga norms
ASANA : Discipline of the physical body
PRANAYAMA : Control over bio energy through respiratory action
PRATYAHARA : Withdrawal of the senses inwards through abstraction
DHARNA : Concentration
DHYANA : Meditation
SAMADHI : Tranconsciousness
Of these, the first five, which border on the Psychosomatic Approach, are referred
to as External (Bahiranga) yoga, popularly known as Hatha Yoga, while the latter
three, which directly affect the psyche are known as internal (Antaranga) yoga,
popularly known as Raja Yoga.
It is almost impossible to try internal yoga (Raja Yoga) for the average man
before accomplishing the external one (Hatha Yoga). The respective sequence
of the eight steps as the standard methodology of yoga.
Yoga is based on a deep understanding of man and his position in this world
and was the first system evolved in the world to recognise the connection and
the interaction between body and mind. It studies in depth the very structure
of the human personality, through analysis the psychological complexities and
the cause of human pain, sorrow and suffering.
It has laid down psychosomatic means through its various psycho-physiological
processes for dealing with the body mind complex and tries to harmonize and
integrate the human personality at all levels and stages of life.
Yoga is basically a way of LIFE which has been evolved as a system to go beyond
the personality - complex and achieve absolute freedom-liberation of the spirit
from the matter.
Some Renowned Yoga Centres are:
- Neyyar Yoga Centre
- Somatheeram Ayurvedic Hospital & Yoga Centre
- Ideal Yoga Centre
- Manaltheeram Yoga Centre
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