TIRISULA YOGA - International Yoga Teacher Training Academy

 

  

Tirisula Yoga - providing Yoga Teacher Training Courses in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei, Southeast Asia, Asia
 

    yoga articles

  

TIRISULA YOGA

HOME

ABOUT US

CONTACT US

REIKI

 

YOGA TEACHER TRAINING DIPLOMA

INTRODUCTION

CURRICULUM

EXAMINATION

REQUIREMENTS

MASTERS PROFILE

SCHEDULE

HOSTING

 

YOGA SPECIALISTS COURSE

KIDS YOGA

YOGA THERAPY

PRE-POST-NATAL YOGA

 

YOGA WORKSHOPS

OVERVIEW

 

YOGA RETREAT

INDIA

MALAYSIA

 

REGISTRATION

FORMS

 

YOGA STORE

YOGA MATS AND BAGS

YOGA ACCESSORIES

YOGA APPARELS

YOGA BOOKS

 

RECOMMENDED
READINGS

LINKS

BOOK REVIEWS

 

PHOTOS

PHOTO GALLERY

 

OTHER LINKS

YOGA ALLIANCE

 

WHAT IS YOGA

OVERVIEW

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

Definitions of Yoga

These are the translated quotations from Yogic literature about Yoga.

The Bhagavad Gita
"Yoga is skill in actions."
"Yoga is balance (samatva)."
"Yoga is known as the disconnection (viyoga) of the connection (samyoga) with suffering."
 

Yoga-Sūtra
"Yoga is the control of the whirls of the mind."
 

Yoga-Bhāshya
"Yoga is ecstasy (samādhi)."
 

Maitrī-Upanishad
"Yoga is said to be the oneness of breath, mind, and senses, and the abandonment of all states of existence."
 

Yoga-Yājnavalkya
"Yoga is the union of the individual psyche (jīva-ātman) with the transcendental Self (parama-ātman)."
 

Yoga-Bīja
"Yoga is the unification of the web of dualities (dvandva-jāla)."
 

Brahmānda-Purāna
"Yoga is said to be control."
 

Rāja-Mārtanda
"Yoga is the separation (viyoga) of the Self from the earthly (prakriti)."
Yoga-Shikhā-Upanishad
"Yoga is said to be the unity of exhalation and inhalation and of blood and semen, as well as the union of sun and moon and of the individual psyche with the transcendental Self."
 

Katha-Upanishad
"This they consider Yoga: the steady holding of the senses."
 

back to home for other articles

 

 

 

  
 

TIRISULA YOGA - INTERNATIONAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING ACADEMY

SINGAPORE . MALAYSIA . THAILAND . INDIA . JAPAN . CHINA

Email: info@tirisulayoga.com

Tel: +60 16 650 4805, +60 16 794 5804
Copyrights reserved 2007