What is yoga?
Yoga is a traditional, theoretical and practical philosophy system that was developed in India for thousands of years through direct experience. These experiences were summarized by the sage Patanjali in his famous work ‘Yoga Sutra in the form of aphorisms and short statements and thus provides up to the present day.
The word yoga describes a path (a science) with its various activities and his ultimate goal. A brief but accurate description of such a complex concept is not easy. The goal and the path marked by direct inner experience. Yoga can be understood only if one practices.
The word “Yoga” itself originates from the Indo-European root “yug”, with the yoke, or to “unite”, “merge” or “align” can be translated. Yoga is primarily an internal state. In this state, “joins” the individual with the universal, the micro to the macrocosm, the body with the soul and it takes the inexpressible content of the male and female principles, are formed from which human beings and the universe . This merger creates in us a sense of unity and reveals to us the inside knowledge of the universal and timeless wisdom. Yoga can enable those who are prepared by a royal modesty of the mind, the ultimate experience of God.
As this condition can now be achieved according to some thousands of years of empirical science to show us the various traditional techniques of traditional yoga systems that allow us a perfect existence through the mastery of certain functions, energies and more subtle elements, components of the spiritual, mental, psychological and physical nature of man to attain.
The wise teacher of all time these systems emphasize that the authentic yoga is beyond all limits and narrow perspectives, beyond the philosophical, psychological or religious systems and the access to this last freedom, particularly by the private practice of one or more forms of yoga is available to each.