YOGASATTVA AUGUST 2018 ISSUE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE YOGA INSTITUTE, INDIA OLDEST ORGANISED YOGA CENTRE IN THE WORLD 360 DEGREES FREEDOM PLAN SMT. HANSAJI JAYADEVA YOGENDRA AMBITION & ABILITY NIRMAL GANGWAL FREEDOM DR. JAYADEVA YOGENDRA MEDITATION YOGA TECHNIQUE OF THE MONTH GURU PURNIMA CELEBRATIONS TYI HEADLINES MITRA- COUNSELLING SERVICE FEATURED ACTIVITY C ONTENTS 360 DEGREES FREEDOM PLAN- Living in salubrious totality with Yoga SMT. HANSAJI JAYADEVA YOGENDRA AMBITION & ABILITY SADHAKA’ S DESK 6 4-5 YOGA FOR FREEDOM BACK-ACHE DR. JAYADEVA YOGENDRA YOGA MD 7 19-20 MEDITATION YOGA FOR SELF AND AUG 15 YOGA TECHNIQUE OTHERS OF THE MONTH 8 21 Celebrating 72nd SWAMI CHIDANAND SARASWATI Independence Day of India MITRA- SWEET CORN & COUNSELLING RED BEANS SALAD SERVICE BOWL FEATURED ACTIVITY 9 RECIPE OF THE MONTH 22 MANAGING TESTIMONIALS ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (AS) 23-24 PAIN WITH YOGA UPCOMING ACTIVITIES TRANSFORMATION THROUGH YOGA 10 25-27 TYI HEADLINES PUBLICATIONS & The Yoga Institute CENTRES Shri Yogendra Marg, Prabhat Colony, Santacruz East, Mumbai - 400055, India. Email: [email protected] Tel: +91-22-26122185/+91-22-26110506 11-18 28 www.theyogainstitute.org Follow us on EDITOR’S NOTE Namaste, reedom is not just a seven-letter word. Freedom is a state of mind. It is a way of life. It is an experience of liberation. Driven by self-determination and self-direction, it is the ability to choose, to explore, to self-define, to visualize and to manifest. To be free Fto be own self in full authenticity is the truest form of freedom. Yoga is a celebration of the freedom experienced in our mind, body, heart and soul. As freedom comes from within, our own Yoga practice and philosophy can help free us from all that binds and limits our nature. The holistic approach of Yoga way of life helps us to break free from the chains of fears, doubts, worries, insecurities, addictions, vices, etc. The 8-fold path to Yoga helps us to break free from the karmic inheritance of mental and emotional patterns—known as samskaras. This highest goal of life i.e. liberation from all causes of sorrow and suffering should be kept in mind by a Yoga Sadhaka. “I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”― Mahatma Gandhi. To mark Independence Day of India, this month, Smt. Hansaji offers a 360 Degrees Freedom Plan for all and Dr. Jayadeva gives insight about why Freedom is a good idea. The Yoga Institute also celebrated Guru Purnima on 29th July, honoring the goodness of spiritual gurus and teachers. Guru Purnima is the day when one expresses his gratitude to his Guru. On this auspicious day, disciples pay respect to their Guru. Celebrate Freedom by living it! Pranee H. Yogendra Editor PEARLS OF WISDOM 360 DEGREES FREEDOM PLAN- Living in salubrious totality with Yoga RELAX THE MIND AND THE SENSES WITH ALL PRANAYAMAS AND ESPECIALLY PRACTICE PRANAYAMA FOUR (ABDOMINAL BREATHING) AND FOCUS ON THE BREATH, WHICH IMPROVES SLEEP QUALITY AND HELPS TO DE-STRESS. YOGASATTVA 04 sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to make a safe space for better living. 21 days is all it takes to change your life for the better. Give it a go and try our 21 Days Better Living Workshop. Raising consciousness- It is often misunderstood as some sort of super-human feat that will empower us with super spiritual powers, but actually, it is all about being free from within. The freer we feel in mind the lighter we are in our journey of life. Becoming enlightened is simply about doing everything mindfully and learning. The lighter we travel, the better and so we can move freely and it beings where we already are! Raise your consciousness and not your BP levels so eat right and try Parvatasana and stay strong like a mountain through ups-and-downs of life. Empty nest syndrome- Children will grow up and leave the nest. It’s not just you; it happens to everybody. Enrol in some learning or recreational hobby. This too shall pass. Acceptance and Vairagya Bhava helps. Do Yoga Mudra and take it easy. Freedom from laziness- I will exercise today, no tomorrow, maybe next month. We believe, DO IT NOW. Do brisk walking every day for 15 minutes. Yes, we all are busy, so take stairs to the office instead of the lift. You can try Yoga; it is one of the gentle forms of exercise besides tress is a disease- Today from seven years old to seventy years walking. old, all are stressed. Excessive stress leads to sleep disturbances Yoga is a way of life. So live life to the fullest. Experience totality of Sand changes in sleeping habits. To cope up, either insomnia or too freedom from bad habits, stress, anxiety, fear, painful emotions and much sleeping is experienced. Other than this, muscle tension, relations. Live well with Yoga. headaches, pains, gastrointestinal and digestive problems as well as fatigue sets in. Get four founding pillars of life in order and start a 360-degree make-over to experience life; so eat healthy diet-Ahar, find a hobby- We waste too much time thinking and stressing about things rather than Vihar, adopt daily healthy habits-Achar, and think good thoughts-Vichar. doing things. Be active. The mind is the key. The biggest step is to begin right where you are and just start. There will Relax the mind and the senses with all Pranayamas and be obstacles, and at times you might fail but start again and keep going. especially practice pranayama four (abdominal The whole process is more about building character and development breathing) and focus on the breath, which improves sleep along the way. Keep trying and don’t quit. The most important part is quality and helps to de-stress. finding a responsible mentor who will guide and support you in your journey. Bid goodbye to emotional baggage- The concept of letting go is fairly difficult because we are hurting from inside. We tend to internalise the Thus hop on to the 360 Degrees Freedom Plan today and start living in excruciating painful memories from the past and inevitably project them salubrious totality with Yoga way of life! in our present relations. We wallow in self-pity, and it affects our judgment ability to think clearly. We are judging people harshly most of the time without making a sincere effort to understand them. We accumulate past anger, hurt, regrets, fears, anxieties and a host of negative emotions. Just like we need to clean clothes every day to feel fresh and keep our body clean, we need to revisit and clear our emotions. Let go of the past and travel free and light. Try Pratipaksha Bhavana and Anitya Bhavana. Freedom from toxic relationships - Any relationship where you feel drained or constrained to act in only certain ways and not necessarily of your choosing can be toxic. Most commonly we struggle in unequal relationships where emotional blackmail and domination are signs of trouble. One or both parties can feel controlled, abused and not feel safe or taken for granted. One might even feel drawn into meaningless mind Smt. Hansaji games against his or her will. Communication designed to address the Jayadeva Yogendra issues generally seems to go nowhere, and in the worst case, it is twisted Director, into more blame games. The Yoga Institute. Freedom from toxic relationships will not always amount to a loss; YOGASATTVA 05 SADHAKA’S DESK Ambition & Ability t is a well-known fact that stress can be caused by many things, like • If one confuses his ambition without knowing his skills then it is only jealousy, ego, greed, competition, to name just a few. Do you think going to lead to disappointment. It isn’t wrong to aspire to be the best Ithat your ambition can also stress you? but life is about making the most of what one has and enjoying it. It is about learning, developing and helping self as well as others. Yoga also Well, what we do from a place of ambition may tend to feel heavy and guides one to strike a right balance on various platforms vis-à-vis stressful, and also lead to very short-lived satisfaction. Work-related ability and ambition, body and mind as well as effort and outcome. stress is the response people may have when presented with work demands and pressures that are not matched to their knowledge and • One must also be receptive to pain along with pleasure on the path abilities, in turn challenging their ability to cope. Employees are less likely leading to the goal. For example, to be the best finance person in town, to experience work-related stress when demands and pressures of work there is a price to pay. You have to be smart, focused, dedicated and are matched to their knowledge and abilities. disciplined – on top of this, meeting the right people along the way can play a huge part. In bargain one may have to sacrifice quality family Though confidence is a necessary part of being successful, there are time, essential sleep hours and also good health care. times and situations where one’s physical and mental skills are not enough to overcome the challenge at hand. • One of the most important teachings of Yoga is that life happens in the present moment. Yoga promotes living life in the moment and not It is very commonly seen in colleges that many of the science students dwelling on the past, nor being anxious about the future. When we want to become an engineer.