We have an ability to breathe. Moreover, breathing movements reflect our inner state. When we are calm we breathe in one way, when we are worried we breathe differently and when we sleep there again is different pattern of breathing. Even yoga uses breathing exercises but the effect goes beyond it. Pranayama yoga is working

We all can talk. The talking and speaking process is not so easy. It is connected straight to the process of thoughts creation, and this process is connected straight to the kundalini energy. In some meaning mantra yoga is the usage of kundalini energy by vibrations of words and thoughts. There is a method to

Besides static exercises our physical body can make some movements. Groups of cyclic movements – kriya rounds – form the base of kriya yoga. Our body is made in such way that we are supposed to make definite number of movements. But in our way of the life we mostly spend time in a sitting

Hatha yoga is one of the most popular and we can also say – one of the most visual kinds of yoga. Actually, when people are talking about yoga they imagine the poses of hatha yoga. Why is it popular today? Let’s take a look on the physical aspect of hatha yoga and what it

No, you don’t. Yoga doesn’t require people to maintain any special or different lifestyle from the one generally accepted. On the other hand, yoga is not insisting on that you should lead the common lifestyle. Yoga advocates the complete freedom of a person in this regard and calls upon leading the lifestyle that you find

No, you don’t need that. You don’t have to be a vegetarian to practice yoga and to benefit from it. Yoga isn’t a club of people united by gastronomic predilections; yoga does not impose people of any kind of hard dietary restrictions or lifestyle. The ideal of yoga is freedom: if you decide to become

Healing of diseases is done by medical institutions and yoga is not trying to take the place of medicine. Yoga doesn’t substitute medicine. Yoga is a system of self-exploration, which helps to maintain health and sometimes deals with certain diseases, but it is simply a side-effect of self-exploration process, no more than that. If you

No, it isn‘t a religion. Yoga is a system of harmonious self-exploration. People of different religious views, as well as people without relation to any religion can practice do yoga. Although sometimes there are some terms and explanations in yoga that sound similar to the religious ones, for example, the names of some poses, but

Yoga is suitable for all people, regardless of nationality, race, cultural identity or any other aspect. Yoga does not divide of people by race, nationality, culture or religion. Therefore, yoga is as suitable for people in the East as in the West. Everyone can take something useful various yoga exercises.   Yoga doesn‘t require any

There are as many kinds of yoga as ways a human beings can express themselves. We have the physical body, which can take static poses. This ability of our body is used by hatha yoga. We have the ability to breathe – it gives us pranayama or yoga of breathing. We have eyes, sometimes our

No one knows when yoga was born. We only know that it happened thousands of years ago. First, yoga knowledge was given orally from a teacher to students and then – in written form. It is believed that four written evidences of yogic knowledge have reached us. They are known as four Vedas: Rigveda, Yajurveda,

The goal of yoga is to achieve freedom over all limiting factors. As a result of acquiring this freedom amazing abilities appear as we see sometimes demonstrated by yogis controlling their physical bodies, mental and psychic powers, which seem to be fantastic for ordinary people. It is not the goal of yoga to get a

Yoga is an ancient, very kind, very logical and harmonious system of self-exploration and exploring of the Universe. Yoga reveals our inner abilities and gives absolute freedom. Yoga has incorporated the century’s’ wisdom and the experience of the followers of this system. As a result of this self-exploration very specific recommendations were given on how

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DHARMA – WAY OF LIFE Dharma is the way of life which is formed when we try as much as possible to follow the first and the second principles of yoga. Dharma is the way of our life, which leads us to the supreme spiritual heights of self-exploration. It is the greatest fortune to find

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Let me introduce you to International Open Yoga Foundation  This organization is responsible for the distribution of yoga knowledge in English-speaking countries. For this purpose we have created our internet Yoga Courses available at www.yogaopenyoga.com. Place to go, if you want to learn yoga from very basics, step by step, at your own pace and without