{"product_id":"2940014493710","title":"How To Maximize The Power Of Yoga","description":"Yoga In The West\u003cbr\u003eYoga as a concept was introduced in the West a long time ago. It is only now that more and\u003cbr\u003emore Americans are taking it more seriously than they ever did before.\u003cbr\u003eYoga as a way of life is catching on fast with the Westerners as more and more people\u003cbr\u003efamiliarize themselves with the truth behind this centuries-old Indian practice.\u003cbr\u003eIt was towards the end of the eighteenth century that Western scholars began to understand\u003cbr\u003ehow closely related the Indian languages are with their European counterparts. The study of\u003cbr\u003esuch an interconnectedness that ensued introduced them to the concept of yoga as it was\u003cbr\u003epresent in the Indian sacred texts.\u003cbr\u003eA breakthrough came when Englishman Charles Wilkins pioneered the translation of Sanskrit\u003cbr\u003etext of The Bhagvad Gita to English. It was also the efforts of American statesman Alexander\u003cbr\u003eHamilton who closely studies the Indian culture, tradition, languages and even delivered a\u003cbr\u003electure in Paris about India in the year 1802-03.\u003cbr\u003eBy the nineteenth century, the knowledge of yoga was spreading among the Westerners who\u003cbr\u003ewere involved closely with the study of Indian texts. They were able to trace the development of\u003cbr\u003ethe concept from its source, now that English translations of the texts were available to them.\u003cbr\u003eNotable in this field and worthy of mention are the efforts of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph\u003cbr\u003eWaldo Emerson who made the above mentioned possible. Also, during the same time, a strain\u003cbr\u003eof the though processes behind yoga also began to be felt in the works of the American and\u003cbr\u003eEuropean Romantics.\u003cbr\u003eHowever, as is commonly known, and earlier mentioned, yoga has become a way of life with\u003cbr\u003emany Westerners. It has not only been incorporated in the daily lives of people, but also in their\u003cbr\u003eway of thinking.\u003cbr\u003eHow To Maximize The Power Of Yoga\u003cbr\u003e© Wings Of Success Page 10 of 10\u003cbr\u003eThis knowledge of yoga as a concept came into the popular consciousness of westerners\u003cbr\u003ethrough several instances of cross-fertilization due to close interaction between the two cultures.\u003cbr\u003eSwami Vivekananda, an Indian intellectual, contribution to making Indian culture familiar to the\u003cbr\u003eWest is notable. His address at Chicago in 1893 to the World’s Parliament of Religions is\u003cbr\u003eperhaps the most important event that helped India to reach out to the world. Indian guru\u003cbr\u003eParmahansa Yogananda I another important figure who made yoga popular in the West,\u003cbr\u003ethrough his teachings, the Self-Realization Fellowship that he set up, and through his own\u003cbr\u003eautobiography.\u003cbr\u003eOther figures worthy of mention are B.K.S. Iyengar (founder of Iyengar Yoga), Swami Rama\u003cbr\u003e(the Himalayan Institute), Swami Satchidananda (Integral Yoga), and Swami Vishnu-devananda\u003cbr\u003e(Sivananda Yoga).\u003cbr\u003eHow To Maximize The Power Of Yoga\u003cbr\u003e© Wings Of Success Page 11 of 11\u003cbr\u003eYoga: The Six Branches\u003cbr\u003eYoga has been around in the eastern world for centuries, and the classical techniques of yoga\u003cbr\u003ego back to about five thousand years ago. If you are interested in going in for practicing yoga,\u003cbr\u003eyou should have an overall idea about the various branches of yoga.\u003cbr\u003eThere are six branches of yoga, namely Hatha, Bhakti, Karma, Raja, Tantra and Jnana. Hatha,\u003cbr\u003ewhich is the most popular branch of yoga, is actually the physical part of yoga or the yoga which\u003cbr\u003einvolves postures or asanas. The Hatha yoga is thus basically composed of ‘asanas ‘ are the\u003cbr\u003ephysical postures which yoga practitioners have to do, ‘pranayama’ or breathing techniques,\u003cbr\u003eand meditation. Hatha joins the body and soul and make the body healthy, and helps to keep\u003cbr\u003ethe mind free from stress and anxiety.\u003cbr\u003eBhakti is the yoga of devotion, involving the heart and faith. This branch of yoga permits the\u003cbr\u003eyogis to discern the actual humanity in all people and makes them able to see everything from\u003cbr\u003eall aspects, thus enabling them to endure, love and accept everything and everyone peacefully.\u003cbr\u003eBhakti yoga teaches its practitioners how to devote themselves completely to god, and teaches\u003cbr\u003ethem that all creatures are created by the Almighty and that appreciating other creatures and life\u003cbr\u003eitself is an act of devotion to god.\u003cbr\u003eKarma yoga is the branch of yoga which considers that a person’s current state is a result of his\u003cbr\u003epast state, i.e. whatever the person’s situation is in this life is a consequence of his previous life,\u003cbr\u003eand whatever he will do in this life will determine his condition in his next life.\u003cbr\u003eIt deals with service and involves action’s energy. Karma yoga teaches yogis that they should\u003cbr\u003eignore all negative aspects of their life and focus on doing good things and thinking good\u003cbr\u003ethoughts. It teaches that if lead a virtuous life in this life, then you will have a happy life in the\u003cbr\u003enext life.\u003cbr\u003eRaja is the ‘king of yogas’ as ‘raja","brand":"Tea Time eBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47160976212208,"sku":"2940014493710","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014493710_p0.jpg?v=1763609879","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014493710","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}