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    The yogic lifestyle

    “Yoga is a discipline to improve the quality of life; a philosophy to attain peace. If you
    want to experience health, if you want to experience peace, and to evolve, make yoga a
    part of your lifestyle.”
    – Swami Satyananda Saraswati

    Yoga is a science of transformation and spiritual evolution perfected and handed down
    by the ancient sages and seers of humanity over the ages. This is our real spiritual
    heritage. To honour and benefit from this heritage, we need to connect with the
    teachings and the wisdom of yoga as a lifestyle. Only when yoga becomes a lifestyle is
    there enhancement of physical health and stamina, development of mental clarity and
    inner creativity, and an experience of peace and fulfilment from life.

    The yogic lifestyle is based upon the precepts of practice, awareness, attitude, action,
    detachment and discrimination. Awareness is the ability to observe and understand the
    environment, conditions, situations and events that influence us. Attitude involves
    developing a positive and creative outlook on life, and the ability to convert negative
    influences into an inspiration to improve and encourage others to improve also. Action
    involves an understanding of how we act, think and interact in the world, which should
    be assisted by viveka or discrimination, knowing just from unjust, right from wrong,
    appropriate from inappropriate and universal from limited.

    Yoga Lifestyle Capsule trainings include daily classes with asana, pranayama, yoga
    nidra and simple meditation practices, as well as instruction on lifestyle. The trainings
    also give an opportunity to become familiar with ashram life, with its holistic approach to
    yoga. The daily schedule includes karma yoga and evening sadhana focusing on bhakti
    and jnana yoga. Yoga Lifestyle Capsules are suitable for beginners and those with no
    previous ashram experience.

    Yogic dimensions of the human personality

    The koshas, body, mind, energy, consciousness and spirit are the five aspects that
    make one whole personality. The approach of yoga is to access all these dimensions of
    the personality. The chosen yoga practices for deepening experience in sadhana must
    also be able to activate the experiences underlying all these five different levels and
    dimensions.

    Developing the human nature and total personality involves moving from annamaya, the
    body, to manomaya, the mind, to pranamaya, energy, to vijnanamaya,consciousness, to
    anandamaya, the experience of spirit. All aspects of the human nature and personality
    must rise together. Any kind of yoga practice must cater to all these five different
    components of life.

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