About yoga
Yoga is many things:
- a philosophical system
- a system of physical exercise
- a system for spiritual wellbeing
- an art -- the creative expression of bodily form
It's at least 2500 years since Patanjali wrote the first yoga text.
Yoga means union:
- of the individual soul with the universal spirit
- of the body and mind, of the mind and soul
- of the body with itself -- awareness
Doing yoga can be likened to flying a kite -- the body experiences a sense of freedom, the thread is the intelligence -- sensing, adjusting, allowing natural energy pathways to flow, become unblocked.
Yoga is non-denominational and is for all -- rich and poor, east and west, old and young, women and men.
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