Shivananda of the yogi: what is it, features and principles of a method

Shivananda of the yogi: what is it, features and principles of a method

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Shivananda of the yogi differs from modern yogichesky the practician — fitness yoga, power or dynamic yoga, this school is traditional, classical, and practices not a training and improvement of a body, but improvement of spirit by means of self-knowledge and meditations. Corporal improvement, increase in flexibility, force and endurance to yoga happens in Shivananda naturally and is a consequence, but not the purpose of practice. This yogichesky school is philosophical doctrine and a world outlook, changing and improving both the physical, and spiritual beginning in the person, resulting it in personal wellbeing.

Shivananda of the yogi

The feature of yogichesky practice is that this direction includes a complex of the principles, the exercises and activity directed to improvement physical, intellectual and spiritual began. Practice means not only physical exercises — asanas, but also ability to enter a condition of absolute rest (relaxation), to reach mental wellbeing, to meditate, to breathe correctly.

Also she assumes studying the sacred writing for knowledge of wisdom of ancestors. But, despite a wide range of requirements, this doctrine does not mean asceticism therefore many people can become followers of Shivananda school of yoga.

Based this Svami Shivananda direction — the great Indian Master of yoga of the 20th century. Since then the school extended far away from India and became known worldwide. Svami Shivananda independently developed the practice, based on classical yoga of Patanjali. He improved it, creating a universal and complete system.

Important! The total purpose of Shivanand of yoga consists in full harmonization physical, intellectual, spiritual and material began in the person.

The master considered that the person is a source of power and knowledge which it is only necessary to wake. According to him, in each of us there are hidden opportunities about which we do not even know and thanks to which the person can cure others, reach spiritual and material welfare and even to operate forces of nature. Practice leads to a harmonious combination of a body and spirit, improves the state of health and physical forces, removes power blocks, promotes achievement of internal harmony and release from psychological problems. By means of this yogichesky school of people comes to that state which it is necessary to lead full life and to enjoy it.

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Besides the general influence on an organism and the personality, therapy of this practice has the following physiological effects:

To whom will suit

Everyone — and beginning, and skilled can start occupations on Shivanand to yoga. The school does not demand special physical training and suits people with the different constitution and physical data. Beginners carry out basic asanas, and for those who are familiar for a long time with yoga, asanas become complicated depending on individual data, opportunities and requirements. The doctrine Svami demands change of outlook, a way of life and thinking therefore it will be the most suitable that who:

Read also, about the principles and a technique of exercises of classical yoga.

To whom will not suit

That who is not inclined to self-organization, is not ready to change and follow globally on a spiritual way, to refuse addictions and bad thoughts.

Also the technique will not suit those people who want or to be engaged in especially physical training, or only intellectual and spiritual knowledge. This type of yoga demands not only performance of exercises and control over a consciousness stream, but also and change of a food allowance with transition to vegetarianism. If you are not ready to refuse meat, fish and eggs, this practice will not suit you as it means complexity of approach, and vegetarianism — one of its components.

Whether you know? Archeologists in Latin America in habitats of ancient Indians found the seals numbering more than 5,000 years on which poses, in accuracy similar to the Indian yogichesky asanas are represented. Therefore the opinion that the yoga arose in India can be called in question.

Principles of a method

Shivananda of the yogi as the classical doctrine, is based on five fundamental principles which formed the basis of a technique and are used in each occupation:

  1. Shavasana — the correct relaxation. It is a full relaxation of a body and mind. Relaxation not only begins and finishes a yoga class, but also is applied during all set of exercises and finishes each asana. As the body and reason are constantly subject to tension and an overload, all activity also suffers from it. The relaxation promotes removal of this tension, disposal of psychological complexes and muscular stiffness, exempts from concern and a stressful state and also prepares a body for performance of the following asanas.
  2. Asanas are the correct exercises. The set of exercises static is also carried out in strict sequence. Contains 12 main asanas which need to be carried out in a condition of a relaxation. The main attention is paid to a backbone, it is the center of nervous system which is reported with a brain and all bodies and the systems of an organism. Asanas promote improvement of a body, increase its flexibility, force and endurance, increase elasticity and durability of muscles, joints, sinews. During exercises the blood circulation becomes more active, a brain, bodies and fabrics receive more oxygen because of what their functioning improves. Increase in vigor and also preservation of youth and health becomes cumulative effect of occupations.
  3. Pranayama — the correct breath. The human body is penetrated by mental channels — Nadia on which the vital energy — a prana proceeds. Correctly executed respiratory gymnastics promotes clarification of these channels, saves them from clips that leads to free and easy circulation of a prana, its correct movement. Pranayama is the deep conscious breath releasing from a solar plexus — the power tank — a large amount of energy which fills a power reserve of the person, improves his health, promotes stress relief and healing. The pranayama in two options — Anula-viloma and Kapalabkhati is carried out.
  4. Vegetarianism — healthy nutrition. At a diet of yogis there is only a vegetable food, the exception makes only milk — it is not considered an animal product. The vegetarian food, healthy, fresh, correctly prepared is the sattvichesky food, that is the spiritual, clean, promoting completion pranas cleaning a body and soul. Also this type of food does not mean food as a way of receiving pleasure. Yogis consider that we eat to live, and not vice versa. Therefore only the necessary amount of nutrients which contain in healthy food is provided to an organism. Products of animal production are tamastichesky — leading to laziness, dullness and diseases.
  5. Vedanta and dhyana — the correct understanding. The Vedanta is ancient high philosophical doctrine, based on the ancient writing — the Veda. This knowledge pursues the uniform aim — knowledge of Absolute Existence, unity with the Highest Ya.V to yogichesky practice the Vedanta learns to stop a stream of thoughts, to be released from the consciousness and limitation, to feel the unity with the whole world. It is reached by means of a dhyana — meditation in which there is focus on contemplation, calm of consciousness and a full stop of mental activity. In such state the condition of internal harmony and rest is reached.

Approaching Shivanand's practice yogas seriously and carrying out all these 5 principles, the person can achieve considerable success — not only in the spiritual development, but also in material formation.

Important! Each of the principles is significant and cannot be ignored.

Structure of a lesson

Each lesson is under construction according to the following scheme:

Relaxation

Relaxation — one of the main the technician in Shivanand to yoga. Each lesson begins with it and comes to an end with it; in a condition of slackness also all asanas are carried out. It is important as often happens that after feeling of cheerfulness during a greeting to the sun and the first exercises the feeling of fatigue comes. Fatigue should be overcome to carry out the following asanas. It is followed by fight against itself because of what there can be injuries, the condition of rest is replaced by tension, and the mental and power advantage of asanas considerably decreases.

Therefore the relaxation is carried out after each exercise or a complex of exercise. At such approach each following asana is carried out with new forces, and upon termination of occupations in a body the feeling of ease and vigor remains.

Important! Mantras are an integral part of yoga-classes as create the necessary atmosphere, increase vibrations, and practicing do more conscious and concentrated.

The full slackness allows an organism to reboot, opens inflows of new energy and also removes power blocks.

Before the occupations the mantra Gadzhananam devoted to god of welfare Ganesh is said. It attracts necessary energy in space, forms astral images and allows to be adjusted on the forthcoming yogichesky practice. This mantra adjusts mind on the Highest I, allows to be discharged of the ego and to be prepared for practice. After that there is a relaxation. This state is reached in Shavasana — a pose of the dead.

Shavasana is carried out as follows:

  1. It is necessary to lay down on a back on a floor.
  2. Extend legs, having parted them a little in the parties — on width of shoulders.
  3. Keeping small distance between brushes and hips, put hands along a body palms up.
  4. Having deeply inhaled, try to strain all muscles of a body as much as possible.
  5. Make a slow exhalation.
  6. Several times deeply breathe, but do not relax yet.
  7. And, at last, blindly now completely relax.

Video: technician of relaxation Shawasang

Relaxing, you watch sequence of parts of a body:

The forehead and eyes need to be relaxed in the last turn as without it it will not be possible to reach a relaxation of mind and a stop of a cogitative stream.

Important! The stop of a stream of consciousness and internal dialogue without use of some tricks, as a rule, is almost impossible. This state thanks to some tricks is reached. So, it is possible to concentrate on feeling of air temperature in nostrils during breath. As a rule, after that the stop of a cogitative stream occurs by itself.

It is remarkable that Shavasana with primary tension is carried out only at the beginning and the end of occupations. In the middle of a complex of asanas of it it is not required. Exactly thanks to Shavasana it is possible to gain the maximum effect of asanas as the body extended on a floor and relaxed promotes the correct distribution of energy on all organism.

Pranayama

Pranayama is a respiratory gymnastics. It is desirable to carry out it after performance of a complex of asanas — then it is most effective. However if there is no such opportunity, the correct breath can devote morning, namely — time right after awakening. Pranayama will encourage better than coffee, activates the photosensitive epiphysis which is considered as the third eye which is responsible for an intuition, thin processes of spiritual growth and binding thread with the Highest I.

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In Shivanand to yoga of a pranayam it is carried out in two techniques:

  1. This cleaning breath which is done early in the morning, on an empty stomach, after depletion of intestines and a cool shower. It is carried out in any sedentary pose with a direct back, for example, in a pose of the Lotus (Padmasan). Eyes need to be closed, and to concentrate attention between eyebrows. You breathe through a nose — take a passive, smooth and inaudible breath after which the loud and strong active exhalation through nostrils follows. For beginners it is necessary to make 36 repetitions, and skilled — to finish number to 108. The main thing that during performance of the equipment the breath was belly type, and the breast and the top departments of lungs remained motionless.

Video: Kapalabkhati's breath

  1. Anula-viloma. This measured and thoughtful breath. It is carried out in any convenient asana; it is possible to remain in Padmasana after the previous equipment. Average and a forefinger of the right hand put on glabellar space, and a thumb close the right nasal course. Slowly and deeply inhale a free nostril, then close it a ring finger and a little finger, and open the right nostril, exhale through it. Then repeat all actions on the contrary — inhale through the right nasal course, and exhale through left. Make from 4 to 10 approaches.

Video: Anula-viloma

The ability to control breath allocates with ability of control over own mind and the vital energy.

Pranayama is effective breathing exercises during which all respiratory device actively trains, and blood saturation by oxygen happens as well as in any other pose. Therefore the respiratory gymnastics has such effects, useful to an organism:

Whether you know? Yogis consider that breath can both provoke diseases, and to cure them. So, for example, if to breathe only the left nostril, it is possible to provoke asthma attack and if right, then to cure this illness.

Dynamic complex

After a relaxation the dynamic complex which is called Surya Namaskar — a greeting to the sun follows. This complex prepares for spiritual awakening and also prepares an organism for performance of the main part of a lesson, warming muscles, bringing them into a tone and stretching sheaves. Surya Namaskar includes:

All exercises are carried out with concentration on breath and in a meditative condition of contemplation and a stop of a cogitative stream.

The complex represents sequence from 12 active asanas during which inclinations in the parties are carried out, forward and back which stretch and bend a backbone and also other parts of a body.

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Asanas Surya Namaskar:

  1. Pranamasana — a prayful pose. Standing directly, having connected feet, having straightened a spine column, slightly strain press muscles. At the same time put hands before yourself in gesture намастэ. Deeply inhale. Mentally greet the sun — blindly and having calmed consciousness.

Video: Pranamasana

  1. Hasta Uttanasana — a pose with the raised hands. It is necessary, having inhaled, to raise hands up sides from the head, palms nestle to each other. Get the upper extremities far for the head, at the same time doing a deflection in a back.

Video: Hasta Uttanasana

  1. Padakhastasana — a full inclination forward. Exhaling, bend down forward, touching with a peritoneum hips. The head needs to be held as it is possible closer to patellae, and to get palms for feet.

Video: Padakhastasana

  1. Ashva Sanchalanasana is a rider. Having inhaled, remove the right leg far for a back, pulling it, left at the same time bend. Level a back and make a deflection, looking up.

Video: Ashva Sanchalanasana

  1. Parvatasana — the mountain. Exhaling, pull the bent left leg for a back, to right; put them nearby, straighten in knees. At the same time hang the head in an inclination down, and raise buttocks above. Rest brushes against a floor, and the head has to be between hands. The look has to rest against knees, and feet — firmly to stand on a floor. The pose from outside looks triangular or similar to the mountain.

Video: Parvatasana

  1. Namaskar's Ashtanga — worship in a position of eight points. Bend knees, lowering them on a floor and resting against it patellae. At the same time hold the breath after an exhalation. Holding buttocks slightly lifted, you also touch a floor by a chin and a thorax. Thus 8 points touch a floor: brushes, feet, knees, chin and thorax.

Video: Namaskar's Ashtanga

  1. Bkhudzhangasana is a snake. Inhaling, lower hips to a floor, you hold hands equal and cave in back in a backbone. The lower extremities have to lie on a floor in tension, palms rest against a floor, the head is thrown back back. After this asana the previous asanas upside-down repeat.

Video: Bkhudzhangasana

Each new exercise in this complex results from previous. All it has to be carried out softly, smoothly and continuously. The body needs to be relaxed, to make breath deep and measured, adapting to each separate asana.

Carrying out exercises from a complex Surya Namaskar, it is necessary to use only those muscles which directly participate in maintenance of a pose. All other muscles need to be relaxed completely.

Important! Usually lower chakras at the person are more active, than top therefore the first asanas begin with activization top, namely with Sakhasrara who opens at a rack on the head.

Asanas

Main part of a yoga-class. Consists of 12 asanas which in Svami Shivananda's tradition are built in the strict sequence considering influence of exercises on a body, mind and power channels. This sequence corresponds to the sequence of chakras. Other exercises go to sequences from chakra to chakra, from top to the lowermost — Muladhara. Thus, the complex begins with a rack pose on the head and comes to an end with poses standing.

  1. Rack on the head

Other name — Shirshasana.

It is carried out so:

  1. It is necessary to sit down, having placed buttocks on heels. Knees and a foot densely nestle to each other. You rest hands against a floor, having chosen points under shoulders and a little forward before knees.
  2. You link fingers of hands in the lock, forming a triangle.
  3. You rest the top against a floor so that the nape was directed to the linked hands. You clasp the head, but you watch that brushes were densely pressed to a floor.
  4. You level legs in knees, at the same time holding the head and hands motionless. Transferring the weight to elbows, you lift a basin up.
  5. Holding knees involved, you move feet closer to the head. Hips have to appear directly over the head.
  6. You tear off feet from a floor and you lift them, at the same time straining muscles of a stomach and a waist and also pressing hips to a stomach. You press heels to buttocks and you fix this situation. You watch regularity of breath.
  7. You raise knees together with hips up. You control that they were bent and put together. Patellae have to look in a ceiling.
  8. Gradually you straighten shins, extending legs up. Completely you straighten all body. You hold weight with elbows. You breathe slowly and deeply.
  9. You keep in an asana from 5 to 15 seconds.

Video: Shirshasana Obladayet such advantage for an organism:

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  1. Rack on shoulders

Other name — Sarvangasana.

It is carried out so:

  1. You lay down on a floor on a back. You raise direct legs perpendicular to a floor, at the same time you should not tear off the head from a floor.
  2. You put hands on buttocks and you lift pelvic area above, shifting hands down a back, in the direction to a floor. You transfer the weight of all body to shoulders, and legs at the same time rise up.
  3. You support by hands a trunk as low as possible to a floor, you hold elbows narrowly, but it is not wide.
  4. You hold a body in vertical position absolutely direct, you do not shake and you do not part an extremity.
  5. You rest against a breast a chin, the legs relaxed, weight distributes

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