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4 YEARS OF YOGAAUGUSTS 2021 AMONTHLYT NEWSLETTERT OF THEV YOGA INSTITUTE,A INDIA OLDEST ORGANISED YOGA CENTRE IN THE WORLD TO FAST OR YOGA NOT TO FAST UNDISTORTED SHRI YOGENDRAJI SMT. HANSAJI JAYADEVA YOGENDRA YOGA AND WISDOM FROM AYURVEDA THE GREY YOGA MD HEAVEN FROM THE TEACHER’S DIARY SUGGESTIONS ON TEACHING YOGA DR JAYADEVA YOGENDRA 4 YEARS OF YOGASATTVA AUGUST 2021 M O D CONTENTS S I F E AT U R E D 11-13 Y O G I C W A C T I V I T Y I N S I G H T S F 21 On Campus Regular classes O for men & women Suggestions on S L teaching yoga R A 21 DAYS BETTER E Dr. Jayadeva P LIVING COURSE Yogendra 4-5 NOW ON CAMPUS To Fast or Not to Fast H E A D L I N E S Events & Happening at The Yoga Institute Hansaji around the world. F R O M T H E T E A C H E R ’ S D I A R Y Wisdom from the Grey Heaven R E C I P E O F T H E M O N T H 22 Mitchelle Matharu 6 14-19 Healthy Kebabs Y O G A M D Yoga and Ayurveda 7 Y O G A C E L E B R AT E S L I F E 2 3 T E S T I M O N I A L S Dr. Sneha Rathi, MPT Yoga undistorted 2 5 U P C O M I N G A C T I V I T I E S Y O G A T E C H N I Q U E O F T H E M O N T H Shri Yogendraji 20 2 7 V I D E O O F T H E Yastikasana, Bhadrasana M O N T H & Intercostal breathing. 8 T R A N S F O R M AT I O N T H R O U G H Y O G A The Yoga Institute Shri Yogendra Marg, Prabhat Colony, Connecting the dots and Santacruz East, Mumbai - 400055, India. learning to help oneself 10 Email: [email protected] through yoga Tel: +91-22-26122185/+91-22-26110506 www.theyogainstitute.org Follow us on theyogainstituteofficial tyi_official TheYogaInstitute the-yoga-institute-official the-yoga-institute EDITOR’S NOTE Namaste, The Yoga Institute is glad to welcome all yoga sadhakas for various ofine courses and classes. Yes, you read it right! Adhering to all the necessary precautions to assure safety for all, we welcome you to experience bliss as you learn the Yoga way of living. Step into this green paradise to register for our renowned ofine teacher training course or get an experiential insight into yoga with the 7 Day Health Camp. Why not invest your time to learn how to live better in 21 days? While we all are enjoying the monsoons, we are also mindful to not allow the rains to dampen our spirit and wash away our enthusiasm to steadily sail through the ongoing pandemic and on-and-off lockdown issues. With the upcoming Independence Day and various festivals, we request everyone to indulge in the much awaited celebrations by respecting all the guidelines for safety of self and others. While Dr. Hansaji doles out simple insights about the healthy way to fast, Dr Jayadeva has penned down some thought provoking suggestions for all the Yoga teachers. Happy Independence Day India! PraneeHYogendra Pranee Hrishi Yogendra 3 YOGASATTVA PEARLS OF WISDOM To Fast or Not to Fast 4 YOGASATTVA PEARLS OF WISDOM your body would be much healthier and better, so this We should have c o u l d b e food at regular c o n s i d e r e d i n t e r v a l s , t o fasting. h a n d l e a n y d i s e a s e , a n y N o t e a t i n g , problem. First, h o w e v e r , w e this should be four w o u l d n o t times a day and a r e c o m m e n d , person should eat b e c a u s e t h e n at a gap of four bres don't go into hours each. The your body, and if rule is to eat only nutrients don't go as much as you into your body, are hungry the then immunity will next time when become low, and you sit down to then very easily, eat, which selects you are open to catching any infection from the outside. your quantity aspect. Recently, there was a case where a person was down with Covid and was in the hospital; a healthy and young man at the Intermittent fasting has become a fashion age of 28, but he had to stay with very minimum food because of these days; every second person is talking other reactions. Then, he got TB because the infection of TB is readily available in the air and many other infections are there in about doing intermittent fasting. Founder the air, so when your immunity goes down and you are not Shri Yogendraji always used to say that eating well, then the infection is going to take over. fasting is only for that person who overeats the other times; so if you are overeating, That's why it is very very essential to eat; not eating should be avoided; this type of fasting you can do only if you are living in a sometimes you should fast. We should be very healthy atmosphere, where you are sure that there is no able to eat everything and somehow learn to infection around you. And the day you don't eat, then you are manage so that ultimately, we can stop supposed to just sit and meditate and not do the normal routine work. So this discipline has to be followed: normal routines have overeating and have a very organised life. to be avoided and simple activities like walking or a little bit of climbing or doing some asanas taken up. A trick here is to not eat the sweet part of the meal in the end but in between with the meal or in the beginning. Over time, you Asanas like a Sukshma vyayam sort of an asana, so that's the learn what is the minimum you can eat to manage for four hours, whole point of fasting. The purpose of fasting could be to reduce when you sit for your next meal. By then, you should be really the craving for food, you see to it that no food is your weakness, hungry. You should also always have a full glass of liquid with go above that weakness for food, eat food as a beautiful thing, your meals too. and eat only that much as will help satiate your hunger and not more than that. So try and follow these rules of fasting, watching So these rules are very clear, but if a person has to eat outside the type of food you are eating, the type of mind you are having, somewhere, where the food is not that healthy or going for a and the type of activities you are engaging, all this counts when party, maybe a birthday celebration. These things can become you are fasting. very common, every Sunday for example. It does not matter if you go out to a restaurant or if you get the food from outside - after all, it is one and the same, that food is not cooked the way it is cooked in the house. This food has lots of toxins, which will be difcult for your body to handle. So whenever someone has any of such wrong food, which is not so healthy, the person should drink hot water immediately; that is the rst rule. Also, as far as possible, avoid eating outside food. Intermittent fasting means you should still follow the discipline of eating four times a day, but now you are eating only fruits and boiled vegetables, like soup and lemon juice and buttermilk. You can live on such food, eat these things every four hours. People Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra call this fasting, but this is the healthiest food one can have. So Director, The Yoga Institute. someone can decide to eat only this, where you don't put any masalas, no oil or ghee, no salt, no sugar, and automatically, 5 YOGASATTVA FROM THE TEACHER’S DIARY Wisdom from the Grey Heaven h, the pitter patter of the raindrops and the thunder passions, your sadness and pain. Empty yourself into those strikes of the rain gods! With puddles of fun mixed with pages. And then start a fresh page. Write down the rst word Arainbows of dreams and a fresh splash of verdant green, that comes to mind. Then build on it and see where it takes you. blanketing Mother Earth as she bursts off her seams. The Perhaps just like that paper boat oating away through the tiny monsoon season holds a mixed audience: Some who streams of puddles. Seems like it has nowhere to go, but romanticize her presence and some who turn away with conceivably may end up reaching the ocean to faraway lands. repugnance. But whether we welcome or repel her, she comes bearing gifts to share. It is upto to us what we make of them.

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