The science of yoga is a wonderful instrument for internal engineering. With manifold health long term health benefits and minimum resources, it is the body’s combative force to the attacks of external forces.

Yoga is the yog or the connection between the mental and physical. An asana is the effort the body makes to reach a pose with controlled inhalations and exhalations and attains physical benefits of good health through optimum mind control.

Each turn or twist the body makes to replicate an asana is the body’s answer to the ask of the mind that calls upon the physical self to collect itself through rhythmic breathing and focus on a particular physical entity whilst observing the going ons of the body…i.e. flow of blood, sound of a throbbing heartbeat or the aches and pains the body is facing. 

Mind through Body

The mind is a subtle entity and the body a more palpable one. To control the body is easier than to harness the dynamic mind. It is the constant flow of water in a gurgling brook or the energetic flapping of a bird’s wings, it is unending, ever-expanding and ever-curious. If mind were the wind that assists the kite, the body is the kite that flutters and flows upon the tug of the main thread of which we have the sole control.

Yoga as is common knowledge is an ancient science going back centuries and has modelled itself on the natural ecosystem. Hence asanas replicate the animal and the plant world.

It is the bridge that transcends a worldly experience and translates into a larger surreal experience as one travels through the physical self and releases itself to reach out to a world which is far beyond its physical capacity.  It is another word for one’s existence realization. 

Institutionalized Yoga Practice

A human institutionalized effort to bring basic yogic practice and comprehensive and tailormade yoga Teacher’s Training program under the aegis of an organization are the teacher’s training programs at the Rishikul Yogshala. Based out of Rishikesh, Nepal, Thailand, Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mozambique, Vietnam, Khajuraho and Iran, the practices are time bound and manned by experienced yoga practitioners.

Physical perks of yoga practice

Benefits of yoga on physical wellbeing are manifold –

1.       Benefits the spiritual and mental wellbeing by opening up clogged emotions and pent up feelings.

2.       Replaces negative (Nakaratmak) with the positive (Sakaratmak) thinking

3.       Identifies the weaker muscles or organs of the body, through aches and pains  and quivering muscle masses

4.       Effectively deals with stress and mental health issues hence decreased level of anxiety and depression, which are preserves of the modern day life

5.       Brings out physical and intellectual sweat to master yogic practices and control the going ons of the mind

6.       Known to optimize systolic and diastolic pressures

7.        Helps attain samamkaya – to align each and every part of the body without deviation, retraction or contraction

8.       It lets energy flow freely through the chakras whilst controlling body heat and allowing awareness to travel through each cell and vein

9.       Helps improve muscle strength and controls common issues like arthritis, back pain, joint aches, migraine, sinus, heart burn to name only a few

10.    Yoga gives posture a pump up and helps align the spine with the rest of the body, this prevents posture related injury

11.    Yoga assists the joint fluids and protects cartiledges and bones from wear and tear

12.    Yoga helps one lift one’s own weight through asanas and uses the body weight as a prop to achieve optimum weight loss and muscle strength

13.    Yoga is a boost to the blood flow and makes the hand and leg muscles more agile. It is known to pump more oxygen to the cells. Advanced yoga poses that demand a greater twist wring poisonous blood out of the body and allow new oxygenated blood to flow to the primary organs

14.    Yoga improves oxygen carrying hemoglobin and red blood cells and cuts the level of clot promoting proteins in the blood.  It, therefore, deals with heart attacks and strokes with better effectiveness

15.    Yoga raises the combative forces of the body to take on the physical hazards of the external nature. Pollution, stress, weight gain, fatigue, aching muscles, bad spinal column health, breathing problems to name a few

16.    Yoga gives tremendous importance to the anterior spine and regular practitioners of yoga enjoy optimum flexibility and movement for the umber, thoracic and anterior spine

17.    Yoga and pranayama massages interior organs without the need for a surgery. It loosens tight muscles and allows blood to flow seamlessly

18.    Yoga and pranayama are passive reflections and opens the minds gates to newer possibilities

19.    Yoga and pranayama improves nerve health, it ensures the generated energy during the practices reaches the gates or the ends of the nerves

20.    Mindful breathing techniques of pranayama and asana practices are a boost to the happy hormone serotonin and finds it’s correlation with elevated levels of happiness and better immune function

Yoga is the body’s natural response to attacks on its subtle and larger entities, it is a way of existence when not just the inhalations and exhalations but also the pauses between them (Kumbhaka) are stressed upon. Yoga is refreshing and invigorating and opens up clogged pores to facilitate the flow of energy and life. However, any yoga practice requires the practitioner to be under the tutelage of a seasoned teacher, who is not just a regular practitioner but also a sensible human being who is privy to the vast possibilities of this life force and the orbit shift it can bring to one’s day to day existence and also long term well-being. The teacher’s training programs at Rishikul Yogashala  at Rishikesh does just that with its schools within the country and also without it. It is an amalgam of years of practice, controlled learning environment, multiple keen yoga practitioners and one common goal – to lead a fuller, healthier and happier existence.