What is Yoga

 What is Yoga 



Yoga is the ”integration and harmony between thought, feeling and deed, or integration between head, heart and hand”. That is to say, if you are thinking one thing and saying another you are not in the state of Yoga. If our work or our actions are not in harmony with our deeply held intuitions and beliefs, this fundamental disconnect will cause a sense of dis-ease, often eventually manifesting in the body. As human beings, we have access to a sense of inner knowing, a sense of our dharma (our ultimate purpose; what we are meant to be doing on this planet in this lifetime). 

The path of Yoga is a process of getting in touch with our higher Self, recognizing that this Witness consciousness, this higher knowing, is our ever-present true nature, and is the essence of the body/mind. Living in a state of Yoga is to integrate this knowledge into daily life. 

In the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ Krishna describes yoga as ‘balance’ and ‘skill in action’; the end of attachment to ego, identity, and suffering. In our daily lives we experience that the opposition between ourselves and others creates suffering. Embracing the oneness or totality of the full spectrum of human experience, and seeing others as a reflection of oneself, allows for compassion, and on the ultimate level freedom from the fear of death as your identity gradually shifts away from this temporary body and its ever changing reaction to the phenomena of creation, towards identifying with the whole of creation itself

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