Kinds of Yoga

Kinds of Yoga

There are several major types of yoga each employing different techniques but all designed to achieve the same unifying objective.

• Raja yoga for instance deals with meditation.
• Karma yoga on the other is the yoga selfless action, it implies acting selflessly and making every moment an act of giving, an offering, a celebration. Even the tasks we would normally avoid; such as vacuuming or cleaning washrooms becomes an act of inner liberation.
• Hatha yoga deal with the physical.

In this article I will talk about some of the objectives of Hatha yoga, which are:

• To cultivate the natural beauty of the body and attain a high state of health
• To awaken a great power that lies dormant in the organism and utilize it for developing one’s own unique individual potential, that’s to say to achieve self-realization.

Hatha yoga is composed of a series of postures or poses called ‘asanas’. As you perform the asanas you must be aware that they have been carefully designed to promote health and beauty as well as stimulate energies. There is a need for poise, balance and concentration as well as deep breathing during the hatha practice.

Yoga will also exercise all your organs and glands. The inverted postures are also of great help in massaging some of the glands and organs.

This means that one get total involvement in the practice. Throughout the yoga practice we attempt to fix the consciousness fully on all movements of the exercises and not allow it to wander. We then become totally involved in what we are doing. You must feel what is happening in your organism particularly during the holding periods, fell the stretch, feel the release of energy within you, feel the resulting relaxation which is one of the wonderful fruits of yoga practice.

“The body is the temple of the spirit”

As you cultivate and awaken the great reservoir of life-force that lies within you, indescribable positive life-force will occur and you begin to experience an unimagined beauty not just physically but at all levels of your life.