Ayurveda Yoga

In order to practice authentic yoga you should examine your reasons for doing Yoga, realise the sacredness of your life, and your purpose here, – you dont live for yourself, the only real reason to live is to strive for spiritual growth, the only thing that gives true dividends. There is nothing else you can take with you but the legacy of your deeds and spiritual development. Ergo live a life of integrity, Practice

The honour code of Yoga

To walk the path of a sadhaka(to be commited to a spiritual path) requires discipline, here are the 10 honour codes of the spiritual path. Yoga has become a weight loss or physical fitness programme in many places, however this is not what we teach, although the physical aspects are manifold and awesome for your health, the true reason for Yoga is spiritual development, In the spirit of this we consider the tenets of the Yogic path:

Yam

five disciplines:

  1. Ahimsa
    - non violence or not giving pain in thought speech or deed
  2. Satya
    - to be truthful and honest
  3. Asteya
    - not to get jealous or get affected by what others have
  4. Aparigraha
    - to only keep enough income to support you and your familys needs (no empire building /buying flashy cars etc)
  5. Brahmacharya
    - sexual discipline, mastering the bodys desire for sex.

Niyam

five disciplines

  1. Sauch
    - cleanliness of the body, mind and soul
  2. Santosh
    - contentment with life , in every way and day
  3. Tap
    - To endure all pains and hurts bravely. To be unaffected and bear everything with peace
  4. Swadhayay
    - constant learning by introspection and meditation
  5. Samarpan
    - Doing everything that comes our way with complete presence and attention.

Note that if you are serious about spiritual growth you need to be serious about these principles, absorb them and live them- they come as friends and bring many blessings into your life, slowly as you observe them they will become second nature and you will begin to stop creating negative karma for yourself, and with the subsequent steps on the spiritual path.. you will cleanse karma, and create the right merit to attain an enlightened state.

A summary of the spiritual path

You need to be practicing (living daily)each spiritual step before you can proceed to the next.

  1. Yam And Niyam
    a moral foundation
  2. Asanas
    the Yoga poses that nurture the bodies subtle energies leading to health and vigour as well as eventually releasing the kundalini energy.
  3. Pranayam – breath practice – clears the mind from obstructions in meditation
  4. Pratihaar
  5. Dhayan
  6. Dharana
  7. Samadhi