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Q: What is Yoga?
A: Yoga means, literally, “union”. The main object of a yoga practice is to create a unified balance within the entire
field of a person for health and wellness. Yoga is a “holistic tool for whole person happiness”.
Q: Who can do it?
A: Yoga is suitable for most everyone. Students are often surprised by the depth of the benefits that are experienced
through Yoga-Seed’s comprehensive approach and well-rounded style of presentation. Many students find there is a
significant carry-over into their everyday lives through the holistic stress management tools learned in our yoga
programs.
Q: How is it practiced?
A: Yoga’s age-old system offers eight specific steps.
Steps 1 and 2 provide the foundation.
They offer guides for self-management on the subtle inner level, such as telling the truth and meeting life with
equanimity.
Step 3: Poses are guided to be done without strain for maximum gain with a mindful approach to one’s own inner
experience, deepening the benefits. This integrated approach to health where pain is considered “no gain” and all
practices are non-competitive therefore offers results that are different from ordinary “exercise”. Classical yoga poses,
sometimes dynamically active and other times practiced in stillness, are useful not only to develop strong healthy
bodies, but also to open energy channels and centers.
Step 4: Breathing Practices encompass an entire category of specific yoga breathing techniques used to effectively
clear energy blockages, restore proper energy flows, calm the mind, and tune up the entire system.
Step 5: Inner Awareness provides a great tool for stress management both in and out of class settings. This step
means moving one’s awareness from the usual state of “outer” awareness into a state of “inner” awareness.
Response-ability increases as one has the opportunity to more mindfully discover how one participates in one’s own
reality.
Steps 6 through 8 offer guides to deeper states of inwardly focused relaxation.
A: Yoga means, literally, “union”. The main object of a yoga practice is to create a unified balance within the entire
field of a person for health and wellness. Yoga is a “holistic tool for whole person happiness”.
Q: Who can do it?
A: Yoga is suitable for most everyone. Students are often surprised by the depth of the benefits that are experienced
through Yoga-Seed’s comprehensive approach and well-rounded style of presentation. Many students find there is a
significant carry-over into their everyday lives through the holistic stress management tools learned in our yoga
programs.
Q: How is it practiced?
A: Yoga’s age-old system offers eight specific steps.
Steps 1 and 2 provide the foundation.
They offer guides for self-management on the subtle inner level, such as telling the truth and meeting life with
equanimity.
Step 3: Poses are guided to be done without strain for maximum gain with a mindful approach to one’s own inner
experience, deepening the benefits. This integrated approach to health where pain is considered “no gain” and all
practices are non-competitive therefore offers results that are different from ordinary “exercise”. Classical yoga poses,
sometimes dynamically active and other times practiced in stillness, are useful not only to develop strong healthy
bodies, but also to open energy channels and centers.
Step 4: Breathing Practices encompass an entire category of specific yoga breathing techniques used to effectively
clear energy blockages, restore proper energy flows, calm the mind, and tune up the entire system.
Step 5: Inner Awareness provides a great tool for stress management both in and out of class settings. This step
means moving one’s awareness from the usual state of “outer” awareness into a state of “inner” awareness.
Response-ability increases as one has the opportunity to more mindfully discover how one participates in one’s own
reality.
Steps 6 through 8 offer guides to deeper states of inwardly focused relaxation.
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