SEDENTARY LIFE, AESTHETICS, SPORTS, HEALTH ... AND YOGA

 The average human being of the 21st century has a problem: if he does nothing he becomes sedentary. And it is so easy to become sedentary! And so comfortable! Just do nothing. Why does this happen? Simply because we are a relatively young species whose technology has advanced much faster than its physical body. And it was that four days ago we lived in the caverns ... If we didn't run we wouldn't hunt and we didn't...

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The automatic homo

 "Of all the formidable things that go around the world, the most formidable is undoubtedly man," said the great Greek playwright Sophocles in Antigone, one of his peak works. I certainly share his opinion, but what is man? An animal? A rational animal? A God? A demigod? A programmable automaton? The bridge between an animal and something superior to him? I think it can be all those things. In this...

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Wisdom vs knowledge (in the form of a platonic dialogue)

   AIMARUS – Today we will talk about knowledge and wisdom. CRITON -Oh! But they are not the same? AIMARUS -No, dear Critón, far from each other, although close are the concepts that they have of them. CRITON: Explain yourself better, because my understanding is eager to differentiate these two concepts that until now I thought were one. AIMARUS: With pleasure we will find the answer to it, between the two,...

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YAMA: The first limb of yoga

Yoga can be practiced by anyone regardless of age, sex, race, physical, psychological or social condition. As long as the interest in practicing it arises in oneself and is not something imposed. Practicing Yoga is not an obligation, but an act of conscious will. However, to start an authentic Yoga practice, a requirement is required: to have developed a certain natural moral. According to Patanjali, the great synthesizer of Yoga techniques,...

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Niyama: the great unknown

Yoga has eight steps in its realization scale. In a previous post we talked about the first, about Yama , natural morality. Today we will talk about the second, the Niyama . Most people know Yoga by its third step, the Asanas , or body exercises, by its room, Pranayama , breathing techniques; or at most for his seventh, Dhyana , or meditation. But as indicated in the title, Niyama is...

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Fable of Deva and Demon

Below I present a fragment of the book "Raja Yoga" by Swami Vivekananda; in which the story of the deva and the devil is told, along with a small explanation of the wise Yogi. Vivekananda was one of the pioneers of Yoga in the West, and one of the highest authorities in Raja Yoga. “... The legend refers that once a deva and a demon came to a sage so that theyteach what the nature of Being was.Both studied long time with the wise, who...

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HATHA RAJA YOGA

The origin and meaning of Yoga is lost in the night of time, and thousands of lines, teachers and interpretations have appeared over the centuries. I don't know what the origin of Yoga is, nor what exactly the word hatha means , I don't even know what the style or line of Yoga that I follow is for sure. Yes I know that my style is within the raja and hatha Yoga, but better to call it Yoga (dry), so as not...

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