Bikram Yoga Positions Navigation

Main Home Page
Tell A Friend about us
Power Yoga And Powering It Up |
Yoga Videos Guidance And Counseling Towards Better Living |
Yoga Blankets Bringing Warmth And Energy To You |
Sun Salutation |
Yoga Teachers Lead By Example Part 3 |
The Truth About Karate For Kids Part 3 |
Yoga In Practice Turning Arguments Into Treasure |
Eating Disorders And The Use Of Yoga In Prevention And Treatment |
Practice Yoga With The Best Of Intentions |
The Truth About Karate For Kids Part 4 |

List of Yoga-Positions Articles

---

Best Bikram Yoga Positions products

Sitemap

Free Newsletter

Main Bikram Yoga Positions sponsors

 

The 10 Minute Yoga: A Complete Guide To Meditation & Yoga For Beginners That Anyone Can Do With Just 10 Minutes A Day, Pose Illustrations Included by Barbara D. Sigman

Private Yoga Lessons: Yoga for Pregnant Women. How To Practice Yoga During Pregnancy The Right Way by Michelle Nicole

Yoga for Office Profesionals by Michael Huffman

The Sivananda Companion to Yoga: A Complete Guide to the Physical Postures, Breathing Exercises, Diet, Relaxation, and Meditation Techniques of Yoga by Sivanda Yoga Center Vishnu Devananda Our Price: $12.23 Used from: $2.49

Yoga Mind and Body by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre Our Price: $10.20 Used from: $2.82

Chair Yoga: Seated Exercises for Health and Wellbeing by Edeltraud Rohnfeld Our Price: $14.40 Used from: $8.97

Yoga Mat Companion 2: Anatomy for Hip Openers and Forward Bends by Ray Long Our Price: $23.07 Used from: $18.00

 

Welcome to Yoga Positions Guide

 

Bikram Yoga Positions Article

. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for further reading, click here.

Jnana Yoga - Yoga For The Intelligent

from: Sharon Hopkins

Jnana means the knowledge. This yoga is the yoga for the
intelligent and selected people. This yoga is the ultimate goal
of all the other varieties of yoga. This yoga teaches you to
look at the world as it is without any ignorance and bias. You
can achieve this state by practicing rigorous mental discipline
and virtue. This yoga is also called Raja Yoga or the king of
all the yogas, since it is of the highest variety and rules over
all the other varieties. This is the Yoga that Patanjali has
described in his Yoga Sutras.



This yoga is made up of eight parts of which five are external
and the other three are internal. Two of its parts, viz yama and
niyama deal with types of behaviour that the student of yoga
should avoid like lying, cheating, stealing etc. and those
behaviours that he should cultivate like cleanliness,
non-collection etc. Asanas and Pranayama are the next two parts
of this yoga. Asanas are the physical movements that help in
developing the suppleness of the body and thus cure any
diseases. You can control your breath by using pranayama which
increases the capacity of the lungs to take in air and thus
increases the vitality of the body. The next part Pratyahara
denotes the withdrawal of the sense organs from objects of
enjoyment. The remaining three parts deal with intense mental
concentration.



Patanjali maintained that practicing these eight parts of yoga
faithfully and intensely will, over a period of time, erase all
the impurities of the body and mind and thus attain knowledge
that will liberate the person from bondage and ignorance. This
yoga is called Ashtanga Yoga since it is made of eight parts. It
is also called as Dhyana yoga due to its stress on mental
concentration. Hence, whenever there is any mention of yoga, it
is usually implied that the person is talking about Jnana Yoga



About the author:


Sharon Hopkins is the webmaster for Yogawiz where you can find
information on , yoga basics,
different yoga asanas, poses, Jnana Yoga,Ashtanga yoga and much
more . Jnana Yoga is the science of knowledge and helps one
unite with the Supreme.

 

Bikram Yoga Positions News