Click “Ashtanga Yoga road” above to subscribe! In the Yoga market, the most common Yoga course name and yoga type belong to Hatha Yoga
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“Hatha” yoga comes from the translation of Sanskrit Hatha, which means to adjust and balance the energy of Yin (Moon THA) and Yang (Sun HA); The simple understanding is to activate the relative energy of the body and make it tend to balance through the physical practice of yoga asana
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However, some scholars say that hatha yoga was originally meant to be active yoga
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In fact, I prefer this statement – because it is a little mysterious to romanticize from the term of yoga and say something about the subtle connotation of energy that needs to be discovered by awareness
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It is better to understand Hatha Yoga as a “life” that needs to work hard every day, So much grounding – this understanding of Hatha Yoga will prompt practitioners to “work” every day- Yoga really starts with such a simple thing
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It is very daily and requires efforts
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There is no mystery and romance..
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Only in this way can you find your own romance and poetry in your practice and yoga life in the future
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We often hear yoga teachers say this: Yoga is not a merit box
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You can invest money
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You have to practice- Hatha, Hatha, it sounds like a wake-up call, calling you to get up early, stand up for yoga and “work” with self-discipline
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In the Yoga Sutra, Patanjali is described by kriyayoga
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The word comes from the root “kri” – meaning “do it” – you can almost regard kri as a synonym for Hatha; But later, the meaning of the word has evolved
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Now when we mention kriya, we will think of the operation of the more subtle level of the body, and hatha Hata is the operation of the rough level of the body at least at the beginning; Therefore, yoga that focuses on the cooperation of body movements and breathing movements belongs to hatha yoga, including Ashtanga Yoga, iyenga yoga, Yin Yoga, hot yoga, fancy flow yoga, Ka character naming yoga, pseudo Ka character naming yoga, frightening Sanskrit noun naming yoga, spacecraft naming Yoga..
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Annie Wei..
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All yoga that practice movements, It’s all Hatha Yoga
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Maybe you are a little confused
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You say that almost all courses on the market are Hatha Yoga
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What kind of yoga is the “Hatha Yoga” class I took in our library? Of course, it’s also “Hatha Yoga”, but it just makes the specific course name of the golden oil version with the class alias – like rape is also a vegetable, celery is also a vegetable, tomatoes are also vegetables, gourd divination is also a vegetable..
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You buy a “vegetable” blind box, of course, it’s also a vegetable; The “Hatha” yoga class in your library is a blind box for outsiders
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We can’t see the characteristics of the course from the course name, but it doesn’t mean there are no characteristics – in fact, it all depends on the arrangement and level of substitute teachers; And from this hall to another hall, from this place to another place, this “Hata” is not that “Hata”..
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There is no comparison between the blind box and the blind box
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Unlike you practice ah Tang, you can continue your ah Tang practice in another field, rather than the blind practice from “blind box” to “blind box”
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Although everything can be a blind box, not all types of Yoga belong to it; The extension of yoga is going to be big
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Hatha is only a small part, and there are many non Hatha Yoga
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For example, in the Yoga Sutra, it is mentioned that in addition to Hatha, there are Jnana (wisdom Yoga – Yoga of thinking and rational thinking), bhakti (worship yoga) and karma (karma yoga)
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The problem is that 99% of people in the market now think that yoga is to do some yoga actions
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People who know little think that yoga is to split a fork, lower the waist and play with a soft girl; People who know a lot know that there are sun worship, doing some postures after doing the sun worship, standing, sitting, lying down..
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Etc., but why are these placed in a large yoga “family” with God nagging things such as Jnana, bhakti and karma? Is there something in common between stretching the waist and praying to God as a volunteer? Here is a very interesting knowledge point, The Sanskrit word yoga in Chinese is so common in the market that we don’t think carefully about what the meaning of yoga is
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But returning to the classics of yoga, yoga actually means two levels: Yoga – is a specific practice method, such as Hatha, Jnana, bhakti and karma, is the path to somewhere, yoga – is a certain state to be achieved and the end point of various paths; For example, samadhi state, meditation state; Simply put, yoga is to control the brain; This is also the mantra of Ashtanga Yoga Guru Guruji Joyce: yogaismindcontrol
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In this sentence, Guruji said not the method, but the result to be achieved; It’s not the road to take, but the end to go
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The controlled state of the brain is the highest level of yoga
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After mastering this knowledge, we return to the question “why do Hatha, Jnana, bhakti and karma belong to the big family of Yoga?”; This problem is easy to understand, because it seems that the methods are quite different, but these four are the “Yoga” road described by patangali in the Yoga Sutra (the first meaning of yoga), which can lead to the end of “Yoga” – mindcontrol to control the brain (the second meaning of yoga)
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You might ask, why are there four paths? Which of the four is more sacred? Why is it so common to practice ha? My personal understanding is that no one is more holy than the other; Because the personal factors such as karma, personality and physical condition of all living beings in the world are often different, the choice of path varies from person to person, and each kind of yoga is unique due to personal karma
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Hatha Hatha is popular in this era
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It may be that our sentient beings are not clean enough at the physical and spiritual levels, so we should “work hard and work hard”; Collective karma is like this
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In the end of the law, we can only take up the important task by working hard
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But the most important thing is, no matter which path we take, I hope we don’t get lost on the way; Don’t give up the basics and fall into the trap of the roadside because you are greedy for the wild flowers on the roadside; We should know that we practice “Yoga” (the first meaning above) for the purpose of “Yoga” (the second meaning above) – practice to limit all kinds of clutter of the brain by focusing on the posture
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As the practitioners become more and more calm, expel all kinds of spiritual poisons, eliminate ignorance, and let our wisdom surpass animal instinct, Let our minds be free from the past and the future
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Finally, let me conclude this article with the teaching of Krishna God in the Yoga Classic Bhagavad Gita.
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