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YOGA
WELCOME
TO CELEBRATE LIFE WITH US THROUGH YOGA: |
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Yoga
is a complete science of life.
The origin of yoga, goes thousands of years back in history. Yoga has
been practiced in many great cultures in the East, the Middle East (Sufis)
and the old Nordic and native American tribes. One of the old yoga sages,
Patanjali describes 8 limbs of yoga :
• Yamas : Non- violence, truthfulness and non- possessiveness
• Niyamas : contentment, willpower and surrender to cosmic will
• Asanas : bodypostures leading to meditation
• Pranayama : create a regular and harmonious energy flow by breathing
exercises
The last 3 limbs are about concentration and meditation leading to the
final aim : Samadhi : the state beyond mind and ego, the state of bliss
and unconditional love.
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HATHA
YOGA : is the original form of yoga. Hatha means the union of pranic
(sun) energy and mental (moon) energy. The aim of hatha yoga is self-
realization leading to an awakened awareness (Samadhi) On the practical
level, yoga gives us a total well being.
• The ancient yogis saw the physical body as a vehicle with the
mind as the driver, the soul as the true identity and action, emotion
and intelligence as the 3 forces that pull the vehicle. |
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to yoga philosophy, we consist of 5 bodies. The physical body, the pranic
body (the vital energy) the mental/emotional body, the wisdom body and
the bliss body. All these five bodies are inter- related. If there is
stress in the mind/emotional body, physical pain will appear. |
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Bente
has the focus on all the bodies, in her workshops. She includes liberating
breathing and other body work tools. She witnesses that physical pain
disappears when suppressed feelings are released. In her approach, she
doesn’t attend only the symptoms, but goes beyond, to deeper levels.
Not by mental analyzing, but by body awareness.
Our modern society is stressful. Stress activates the heart, the breath
rate, the nervous system and the hormone production. Then illness can
be the result. We can prevent stress from building up, and illness developing.
The best anti – stress – tool is a flexible, strong body and
a balanced peaceful mind. Bodyawareness is essential, in order to notice
the signs given to us by the body. Yoga, is a good way to stay aware.
The more we live with awareness, the more fully we live. With awareness
we can awaken our deepest potentials, like true love, joy, freedom and
peace. Living as love and joy, makes it meaningless to go on hunting for
it outside. All that we ever wanted, is very close at hand, and we can
inspire each other to rediscover it. |
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WELCOME
to yoga, welcome to the free birds home, to meeting truth within and
in others.Sometimes Bente has summer programme with Saji, her friend
and yoga teacher, from India . See workshops. |
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Copyright
© 2007 www.bentemarcussen.info |
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