Kriya Yoga And The Nature Of The Journey
... West by Yogananda in the 1920's. He established the Self-Realization Fellowship as a 'total yoga' system that tried to address spiritual as well as physical aspects of self.
Kriya yoga is derived mainly from three other yoga techniques - karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and Jnana yoga. Karma yoga focuses on the movement of the soul both inside and outside of the mind. Jnana yoga focuses on wisdom, allowing the mind freedom. Bhakti yoga focuses on love, as it allows you to come to terms with everything around you. The aim in combining them was to "purify" the mind and soul, and proponents of kriya yoga believe they can achieve self realization more quickly this way than following the other disciplines.
Kriya Preparation
The first step in Kriya is to 'prepare' your body, and that is done in one of a couple of ways. For many, Hatha yoga is the perfect preparation exercise. For others, though, who may not be as flexible, alternatives are provided...more
Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Yoga Teaching Service, Part 3
...web site, Blog, or a paid web site for next to nothing (average $150 per year). If you cant do it, find someone young who will. If you are like me, and you want to do it yourself and have your hand held, go to network Solutions. You can get a start up site for around $75 per year.
There are always better deals around the Internet, but the network Solutions template sites are user friendly for the less technical people like me. You dont have to know HTML, and even a dinosaur like me can learn how to put one together over a weekend. If you have your written content in a Microsoft Word format, and some pictures ready to go; you will be up and runni...more
Questions about Yoga Teacher Training via Correspondence
...Recently, I spoke to a Yoga teacher intern about Yoga teacher training correspondence courses. He had six years of formal training with a master Yoga teacher (Guru), and currently, lives outside of North America. This interview will help to put some light on Yoga teacher training by correspondence.
Q: Will a Yoga teacher training correspondence package make me competent enough to teach Yoga? This is bearing in mind that, at this time, I do not have access to a local Yoga instructor, who can supervise my Yoga teacher training?
A: Yes, your past experience will help, but the Yoga teacher training course must be entirely complete, and if you wanted to send an early pre-exam video, or dvd, to monitor your progress the director of Yoga teacher training should review for free, or for a small fee.
A mirror, camera, and audio recorder also make great learning tools for monitoring your progress, while you prepare to become a Yoga teacher.
Do not judge yourself too harshly. This is a common reaction, when we record anything we do. When you can get by our own self-criticism; you will be on the path to become a Yoga teacher.
Within your Yoga teacher training course, there should be step-by-step instructions, numerous Yoga resour...more
The Ancient Practice of Yoga and its Effect on Your Life
...fatigue. In addition, on practicing it regularly you will notice that your body has never been so flexible before. This is because it enables you to do body stretching and many positions aiming for flexibility. These positions increase your concentration, patience and strength, too.
Before deciding to start your Yoga classes, you should have a hint about it. read as much as you can about Yoga, because the more you read the more you discover its world." It is a world of wonders". First, you should know, what is Yoga? , what is it all about?
The ancient Yogis were less busy than we are nowadays, they were having more time to think, understand and discover the nature, and the human needs. They knew that by balancing the three forces, (which are action, emotion and intelligence), the human body operates its best and this is because the body, ...more
