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you
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sit upright straight please place your
right hand on the top of your head close
your eyes first your lips together take
a new breath in and hum with me
one more little louder
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bring your hands down open your eyes
this relaxing calm effect you're feeling
is one of the side effects of yoga Yoga
is mostly known for these asanas or the
postures but along with asanas we have a
lot more in yoga to offer let me take
you through my yogic journey and some
insight to give you an idea what is that
more we are talking about I grew up in a
tiny little desert village in Rajasthan
and I was so bored in the school that I
would escape through the classroom
window as soon as teacher who turned his
back to the class with nothing else to
do roaming around in the sand dunes till
one day I found a straw hat with sadhus
and Yogi's Hermits were basically
renounced the worldly life we're doing
these strange rituals I was completely
fascinated by it so next change to share
my lunch with them they allowed me to
hang out and sometimes even assist in
their practice this was the experience
changed my life living with Yogi's
learning yogic techniques philosophies I
gathered yoga is a science of experiment
and experience it cannot be learn or
taught only through books you have to
dive into it Yoga is a journey of
self-discovery on this journey we go
through the multiple layers of ourselves
to know about physical emotional
energies to know how we act and react in
life what gives us the energy what takes
the energy away how do we redirect the
energy as per need you can start yoga
anytime you don't need to be vegan for
it or you don't need to be flexible
there is no limit of age or body types
there is no limitation of what belief
system you come from
all are welcome in yoga if you ask me
what is the really the meaning of of
yoga what is the purpose of yoga the
purpose and meaning of yoga is helping
us realize that oneness with the
universe we are all intimately
interconnected not just with each other
with everything else around it but it
doesn't feel like this does it we feel
individual we feel separate and why is
that why do we feel individual and
separate if everything else is connected
the reason is of our mind our minds
inability to see the difference between
the reality and your imagination or your
idea of reality so let me give you an
example what I mean by that so you need
your hands-free so once again sit
straight bring your hands in front of
you do as I do cross your hands and
place your fingers on your nose if you
did exactly what I did you should be
able to do this so did you do what I did
or you presumed what I did you most of
you followed a couple of you still
trying don't worry I'll tell you exactly
what happens most of you just basically
followed a prediction by your mind and
that's exactly where you lost the
contact with what was happening and your
mind was giving in a really full scale
idea what you think is happening the
mind preserves the energy by giving you
an idea from your previous experiences
and gives a prediction and in that
prediction you completely get
disconnected from now in here however
when you are gone away somewhere you do
get perceptions which are not even there
and sometimes the bad perception leads
you unhappiness however through yoga and
meditation
you can raise your awareness to the
level where you can become totally aware
when you when you are in your dream
world or illusion or when you're present
and here past 30 years working as a
naturopath and yoga therapist with
mental and physical challenge of people
from all walks of life from Hollywood
stars to prisoners this experience gave
me the understanding to able to develop
a yoga program I call it and pasta yoga
untie in sanskrit means and or the
deepest a place within the deep place
within is this is one of the process
where practitioner can dive deep into
meditative state of mind effortlessly so
we talked about mind there's another
very important factor needs a close
observation since via life is full of
information we are moving all the time
of our minds and bodies are all the time
getting bombarded with things we are
creating new things we are all the time
in renting and we busy doing in this
busyness we forget the power and the
magic of inaction in yoga and in his
life action and in actions are equally
important high-performance and athletes
they always schedule they're in action
in their life and that in action
protects them from any burning out
protects them from any kind of permanent
damages and at the same time gives them
access to creativity and much-needed
rest so that they can go on with a life
with the full energy let me give you a
real-life example imagine you are on
around-the-world journey in a
solar-powered plane this journey brings
you to Nagoya Japan in front of you have
a Pacific Ocean there is nowhere else to
land the next place is Hawaii and
journey from Nagoya Japan to Hawaii
takes five days and five nights in those
five days and five nights loan pilot is
only allowed to sleep twenty minutes
in those 20 minute phases the person has
to recover completely and be alert and
awake available for that machine now
compound that lack of sleep and lack of
movement with fluctuation of temperature
from minus 40 degrees to plus 40 degrees
at the height of 8,500 meters without
any pressurization in that cupboard size
cabin this is exactly what Andre brush
bag a Swiss pilot for Solar Impulse had
to go through and I got the honor to
work with Andre and teach him and pasta
yoga our specific variation with the
blindfolded doing the postures and
modified postures and breathing for the
plane we even make some changes in
design in the plane as well so that he
can perform his yoga in there
as a result five days later Andre landed
in Hawaii and Solar Impulse little
completed the journey after
circumnavigating the earth you and we
don't suffer from such hardship on a
daily basis but we too get stress
sleep-deprived some of us are struggling
with anxieties and depressions the good
news is that you can also use the tools
from yoga and feel the instant
difference that how that's really helped
you okay so if you're ready we do one
more experience so once again sit up
straight please place your right hand on
your tummy and breathe as fast as you
can faster faster faster faster has a
chanela I don't hear you smell a beat
rapido Olay alright breathe normally
just take normal breath if you're
feeling dizzy little bit hot around your
ears shoulders are getting tight your
heartbeat is going fast these are
exactly most probably the symptoms you
feel when you're stressed out okay let's
do the counter of that so
this time right finger on the right
nostril no tricks anymore
breathe out from the left breathe in and
then they switch the nostril after
breathing into the right inhale from the
right and switch the nostril to the left
after every inhale you switch the
nostril close your eyes and focus on
your breath after every inhale you
switch the nozzle and make your breath
as quiet as possible without any sound
and do it easy slow there's no need to
hurry now keep as close place your hands
down and just breathe normally just
observe you inhale and exhale and gently
open your eyes
most probably if I give you pillow right
now you most probably doze off a few
seconds ago you were feeling the
symptoms of stress and now you're
feeling the symptoms of relaxation if
you really want to know yoga you need to
dive in it there is no other way you
need to learn an experiment and
understand what it does become aware of
your mind when you are available and
when you think you are available at the
same time make the inaction part of your
life so that you can be more creative
and more energetic the journey of
decoding yoga is a journey of decoding
yourself thank you
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you
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