Atma yoga teacher training - Yoga in the modern era
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Many people learn of yoga through how it is presented in today's yoga studios, what they see in media and from what their friends tell them. Much of this type of yoga is based on physical asana practice, but most people don't understand that the benefits of such practice is fleeting and temporary, lasting at most a couple of days. The ancient yogic texts propose and entirely different yoga practice for today in this Modern era. This practice is based on meditation on mantras and chanting of sacred sounds and the performing of simple rituals. It is called Bhakti. In Atma yoga teacher training, we combine both the asana practice and this new yoga of Bhakti so that our teachers are practicing the best of both worlds. Visit our website for many more resources for teachers and students and lovers of yoga (yoga sets, lectures, meditations, music). We also train teachers! www.atmayoga.net
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2. Good, bad, or concocted
- You should now be able to connect the extant yoga systems,
modern yoga schools, and popular gurus to the philosophies and
aspects of Vedanta they draw on.
3. Yoga Systems, contd (see list: 40 types of Yoga) Systems of
Yoga (shastric) HathaRaja - Astanga Kundalini Mantra (japa) Siddha
Buddhi AtmaNada Laya Samkya Kaula Shri Vidya Svara. 4. Yoga
Systems, contd Schools of Yoga (modern) Astanga Hatha Sivananda
Iyengar Viniyoga Integral Bikram Power Yoga Yin Yoga (Taoist Yoga:
Slo-deep) 3H0 Kundalini Kripalu TM Kriya and many more 5. Yoga
Systems, contd Gurus* Vivikananda Krishnamacharya Parmahamsa
Yogananda Swami Rama Tirtha Krishnamurti Indra Devi Richard
Hittleman Maharisis Mahesh Visnudevananda Yogi Bhajan Swami Rama
Swami Satchitananda Indra Devi Desikachar 6. What is yoga meant to
be today? 7. Yoga is universal
8. Yoga belongs to no culture
- All yoga (mystic or bhakti) is simply technology for altering
consciousness
- Yoga reflects the eternal nature of the soul as such it can be
claimed by no sect or religion.
- I n the light of modern science it will be possible for us to
see sanatana-dharma as the main occupation of all the people of the
world
- There is no historic origin of sanatana-dharma because it
eternally remains with the living entities. (ACBSP)
9. Spiritual practice is universal
- Dharma is one and not many. Actually, the jva has but one
dharma, known as the vaiava-dharma. Dharma may appear to be
different according to the various languages, countries, and races,
and this one jaiva-dharma, constitutional eternal function of the
soul, may be referred to by the various peoples by many different
names, but no one can artificially create a new jaiva-dharma. The
unblemished pristine love for the Supreme Absolute Whole
experienced by the minute particle of spiritual substancethe jvais
defined as jaiva-dharma.
- Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
10. Does yoga require a dress code?
- My advice in this regard is that one should be dispassionate
about ones outer dresstowards it practice neither attachment, nor
hate. When the heart and consciousness become purified from within,
the outer garments are also automatically rectified.
- When too much stress is laid on dress codes and grooming
external looks, then disciplining the consciousness within is
neglected.
- My opinion is that after inner cleansing, one is naturally
inspired to conduct oneself in accordance with the behavior of
saintly devotees, and thus ones outward appearancedress and so
onwill be freed from blemishes in the natural course of
events.
- Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
11. Bhakti is universal
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- Prabhupada : I don't say that "You Christian, you become Hindu
or you come to me." I simply say "You obey these commandments."
That is my order. I make you better Christian. That is my
mission.
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- I don't say that "God is not there, God is here," but I simply
say that "You obey God." That is my mission.
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- I don't say that you have to come to this platform and accept
Krishna as God and no other. No. I don't say.
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- I say, Please obey God. Please try to love God." That is my
mission. And I give the way how to love God very easily. Provided
you agree.
12. Bhakti yoga is cross cultural
- If a person following a particular type of religious principle
is developing love of Godhead, that is first-class
spirituality.
- But if one is developing love for the false ego or material
life then where is the spirituality?
13. Bhakti yoga is cross cultural
- St Augustine is one of my favorite examples of a Jnani being
led into Bhakti.He wrote many volumes of intricatediscussion on
religious thought, and his works constitute perhaps the largest
single source of the dogma of the Catholic church today.
- However, there came a point when he put down his pen and never
picked it up again.It would seem (based on the reports of others)
that he had had a massive, mystical, devotional experience towards
the end of his life.Following this, he stated that all of his
writings amounted to a "hill of straw."
14. Yoga is the science of hope that precedes celebration