Half Sun Salutation

The Sun Salutation or Surya Namaskar in sanskrit, is one of the most important and famous yoga exercises. It is one of the few dynamic exercises of classical yoga, and is excellent to work the strength, endurance, speed and flexibility of the body.

Sun Salutation is a series of 12 asanas coordinated with breathing. In another post we will analyze it in detail, but now we will focus on the easy side, "half sun salutation".

The half sun salutation consists of half of movements, and anyone can practice it. Should be dominated thoroughly before trying to do full Sun Salutation. Do not underestimate its simplicity.
 
With this exercise we train back flexibility in his front-rear axle, and we learn to coordinate movement with breath.

It's important to do it slowly, relaxed and focused on what we do.

In the following video you can learn how to do:

*Spanish with english subtitles

Gopal

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What is yoga?

The word 'yoga' means 'union', 'to join', so, the definition of yoga may be: 'the union of body and mind', 'the union of man with God', 'the union with our self'… This last is for me the most appropriate definition: 'The union with our self essence'.

In ancient times, when yoga was developed in India, yoga was a philosophy school (darsana), whose most important goal was self realization, or the joint with God (Brahman).

Nowadays, in our modern western civilization, most of people do yoga because of his benefits in health (fitness and wellness), and is known as a great discipline for body and mind.

My vision of yoga is to synthesize the ancient yoga with modern… The oriental wisdom with the western knowledge. In this blog I'm going to write about health, about psychology, about philosophy and other matters that may be useful for all of us.


There are a lot of yoga schools and types, like hatha yoga, asthanga vinyasa yoga, kundalini yoga, yoga bikram, yoga iyengar, power yoga, hot yoga… My style is made by hatha and raja yoga basically. My classes and routines are composed by:

• Pranayama (some techniques of breathing)
• Asanas (soft physic exercises for health and to be in shape)
• Relaxation (for stress reduction)
• Meditation (as mind workout and to know ourselves)
• Study of classic books (Bhagavad gita, Yogasutras of Patanjali…)

Yoga is also 'a way of life', a complete body-mind discipline that will help us to live with more peace, more happiness and more self awareness.

Gopal

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Wellcome!

Wellcome to my blog YOGA at HOME, the brother of spanish YOGA en CASA. 

In this blog I'll try to write about yoga and meditation, and translate the best of my articles, videos and courses that are now available in spanish.

I hope you enjoy this blog and to be useful for you.

Gopal

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