Learning Through Yoga

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About the Book This book, containing over 500 pictures, will appeal to every level of yoga enthusiast, as it integrates the philosophy of yoga with our daily practice. Through a systematic and simple approach, it helps us see how yoga can be put into action. The book will particularly interest the inquisitive mind that is searching to discover these timeless truths in modern day lifestyles. It will indeed help us to begin learning ....learning through yoga

About the Author Raghu Ananthanarayanan has been passionately attempting a convergence between traditional india wisdom and modernity. A graduate from IIT Madras, he took up an intensive study of yoga with T Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikachar after a few years of work as a manager During this period he completed his post graduation in Bio medical engineering based on the study of asana and pranayama in the therapy of back pain. He is a leading behavioural scientist and uses the yoga sutras as a basis for the inner work he is also a leading organization consultant and has published a book, "The Totally Aligned Organization", where he has elaborated upon some of the key ideas from yoga that he has used in a management context. He is actively involved with reviving craft Groups and theatre.

Foreword This is a unique book intended for the young mind. It introduces the main elements of Yoga interweaving into actual practices, legends, fables, atti tudes of mind, questions, wise aphorisms and koans. It may at first reading be difficult to connect the commentary with Yogic Asanas but the more you ponder the clearer is the connection. It introduces into the physical elements of Yoga an awareness of mind and infinite ways to awaken intelligence. The teacher or the parent will learn along with the child. If the Asana and the legend are mastered, the body and mind of the student will be cleansed and the sensory perceptions unclogged. An attempt to extend the horizons of the outer and the inner environment appears to be an intelligent ap proach to the physical.

Preface As an Institution offering instruction in the different aspects of Yoga, we are often faced with the questions, "Do you teach only Asanas?", "Do you teach Hathayoga?". "What about Rajayoga?", "What do you have to offer for the mind?", "Why don't you give us a chart of yoga practice that every one in our community can follow?", "Why do you give private classes?", etc.

The Yoga that we studied under the guidance of Sri T. Krishnamacharya is based on Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. Yoga practice according to Patanjali con sists of three elements: Tapas, the practice that removes impurities; Svadhyaya, the study that tells us systematically about the body, the mind and the other components of the human system; Isvara Pranidhana, our attitude towards actions we are called upon to do in life and the result that these actions produce. These three elements are essential to the practice of yoga in order to reduce the obstacles that prevent clear perception and bring the mind towards a state of attention. Only an individual with such perception can face life bravely. Our teacher always emphasized that learning which merely provides a means to earn a living but deprives the individual of the ability to reflect upon oneself, and find the means to improve one's behavior and quality of being, falls short of complete learning. He goes as far as to say that even animals have the means for mere livelihood.

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