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Therefore, the practice of pranayama is considered an excellent way to attain mind-control. The way he did it was more than habit, he made you feel so welcome. Beginners should focus the mind on sound (mantra), and more advanced students may concentrate on concepts, ideas or chakras. Only after many years of practice of withdrawing our mind from the external world, through the practice of meditation, are we able to obtain a glimpse of this inner peace, a peace which is indescribable. You are part of nature, you are part of this universe. You recognise that you are actually a spiritual being, it means you are part of everything. Swami Vishnudevananda would say all the time: "If you are hungry, you have to eat for yourself. Here Swami Sivananda describes one who practises pranayama: He or she will "have a light body free from disease, very fair complexion, a sweet melodious voice, pleasant smell from the body, good appetite, cheerfulness, a handsome figure, good strength, courage, enthusiasm, a high standard of health, vigour, and vitality, and concentration of mind". The fundamental difference between Yogic exercises and ordinary physical exercises is that physical exercise emphasizes violent movements of the muscles, while Yogic exercises promote slow and conscious movements of the body, thus avoiding the build-up of lactic acid in the muscle fibers, avoiding fatigue.

Proper exercise act as a lubricating mechanism for the joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and other parts of the body, by increasing circulation and flexibility. We talk a lot about this and it takes not only flexibility but courage. But to cross certain borders in yoga also takes courage. Yoga takes good care of the body and mind, not because of attachment to any sensual pleasures, but because we need these two vehicles in order to achieve inner aware - ness. We are un- able to do the practices that we need to in order to realize the Self, nor are we able to serve others. Swami Vishnu said you should teach in your own community, in your schools, wherever you are working - and people do. Swami Vishnudevananda would say, "Be the witness of your own movie." When you reflect on your day and start to see where your emotions or instincts have taken over, where they have caused suffering, then you can start to realise what you really are, to feel ‘oneness’ with all. These instincts veil us completely. Through discrimination, one learns from the reactions to actions and attitudes what promotes health, prosperity and wisdom, becoming more skillful in one’s strategies for happiness.

It is about the experience of real happiness that is independent of external things. This can only give a shallow result and shallow understanding, What is Sivananda yoga which leads to our second problem: the real understanding of what life is and of our spiritual life takes a long journey. Even when arriving at the right discriminating knowledge, he who gives up the fruits, unto him comes as the result of perfect discrimi- nation, the Samadhi called the cloud of virtue. It can be discouraging to hear "it takes lifetimes" when we have to deal with our life now, but even if the results come slowly and we feel like a snail crawling, it doesn’t matter. The body and mind are like vehicles which can drive us on our inner journey. How much selflessness are you expressing? I didn’t practice yoga much before my TTC 2 years ago, nor much after. "I am 6 years and a half". He started quickly, and within 10 years we had ashrams and centres in America, Europe, India, and Australia.

All of a sudden your mind says: "I’m going to take the Teachers’ Training Course, I’ll go to India, but I’ll take my own mind with me and I want raw food". It will take at least fifteen minutes of purification! For those women who have been practising the classical sequence of yoga positions for years, it will act as a valuable aid to adapting that practice for pregnancy. She has combined her expertise in music and yoga to develop techniques that help people who do not yet love and respect their own voices. Sports, music and a good school all help a youngster to cultivate will-power. Yoga is a self discipline, it is not an imposed discipline, you impose it on your - self, and this gives you tremendous strength and will-power. Sivananda Yoga was founded by Swami Vishnudevananda who was one of the first Indian Yogis to come to the West in the year 1957. Swamiji took the vast yogic teachings and made them accessible to the Western mind. The analogy for this continuity or unbrokenness is the flow of oil from one vessel to another. Swami Vishnu said this in 1968, a time when the use of drugs was widespread.