YOGAAPR 2020SAMONTHLYT NEWSLETTERT OF THEV YOGA INSTITUTE,A INDIA OLDEST ORGANISED YOGA CENTRE IN THE WORLD REMEMBERING DR. JAYADEVA YOGENDRA ON HIS 91ST BIRTH ANNIVERSARY YOGASATTVA APRIL 2020 CONTENTS M E S S A G E Y O G I C I N S I G H T S COVID-19 Self-mastery CRISIS 11 through Yoga 24 F E AT U R E D A C T I V I T Y • Free Yoga 4 Asana sessions & Parisamvad P E A R L S O F W I S D O M • 21 Days Better 12 Living Course Life and times • Live Sessions with Dr. Sahab R E C I P E O F T H E M O N T H Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra MINDFULNESS DELICIOUS MULETHI 25 GUIDELINES FROM LIVE STREAMING THE BUDDHA 2 6 T E S T I M O N I A L S Harold Sequeira 6 H E A D L I N E S 2 8 U P C O M I N G Events & Happenings at The Yoga Institute A C T I V I T I E S Y O G A M D around the world Ayurveda and Yoga7 3 1 P U B L I C AT I O N S & C E N T R E S Dr. Vasant Lad Y O G A T E C H N I Q U E O F T H E M O N T H JAL NETI- NASAL 15-22 CLEANSING 8 R E M E M B E R I N G T R A N S F O R M AT I O N G R E AT Y O G I S The Yoga Institute T H R O U G H Y O G A SELF – STYLED Shri Yogendra Marg, Prabhat Colony, Santacruz East, Mumbai - 400055, India. YOGIS Email: [email protected] Tel: +91-22-26122185/+91-22-26110506 Learning from www.theyogainstitute.org Dr. Jayadeva 10 Shri Yogendra Ji 23 Follow us on EDITOR’S NOTE Namaste, Hoping all is well with you all! The world over, the pandemic is affecting health, lifestyle and economy. However, we are striving to bring you reliable, timely updates from The Yoga Institute. It is common for people to feel overwhelmed and anxious when there is so much update on the Corona virus and its adverse impact on our physical and mental state as well as on our nances. COVID-19 is absolutely the biggest global threat of our time. However, it is not the only news. The Yoga Institute has been sharing ways to cope up with the predicament by debunking myths, updating facts, spreading awareness, and also hosting live Yoga sessions. Make the most of this time to travel inward and discover the blissful world within by following Yoga way of living. Keep practicing Yoga to stay sane and safe. Remembering Dr. Jayadeva on his 91st Birth Anniversary, with profound respect and deep love, we want to share this true yogi’s take on fear and faith. Dr Jayadeva, in one of his talks stated, “ We lack the inner calm, certainty and condence because we don’t believe in such an element that provides this condence and certainty. Right from childhood, we are conditioned to see uncertainty in every situation. If there is faith, fear disappears. Faith, that whatever happens anywhere, God will be there to take care of it. “ With that faith, we respect and abide by the 21-days lockdown, the most conscious decision for the welfare of India.The Yoga Institute has always been at the forefront to help society during testing times. To express our gratitude to all the unsung heroes like BMC staffers, police ofcers, health care professionals, and other essential workers, we are providing them with free sattvic meals. So with deep conviction, we continue to do our duty and take every step we can to keep safe. Together, we look forward to continuing our journey with you all through this health crisis, and on the other side of it, when India prevails. Stay home, stay healthy, and stay in touch. PraneeHYogendra Pranee Hrishi Yogendra 3 YOGASATTVA PEARLS OF WISDOM Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra 4 YOGASATTVA PEARLS OF WISDOM Life and times with Dr. Sahab “His biggest mission in life was to take Yoga to every doorstep and promote ‘Householder Yoga.’ r. Jayadeva was a very simple and practical human Dr. Sahab was also strongly against Raga - attachment. He being. Everything that he did was very symbolic. I used believed that once a person gets attached and comfortable, he Dto jokingly tell him that even our marriage is symbolic. stops growing. In order to keep growing and learning, we must Even though he was an introvert and liked to keep himself busy embrace change. He would even not let ego come in the way of and aloof, externally, he was always alert and aware of what growth. To ensure that the teachers don’t get too comfortable was happening around him, especially at The Yoga Institute. He with their teaching or that their ego doesn’t get a boost, he would strongly believed that it was his Dharma (Duty) to carry on the constantly keep rotating their classes here at The Yoga hard work put in by the Founder - Shri Yogendra Ji. His biggest Institute. At times, the teachers would come running to me to mission in life was to take Yoga to every doorstep and promote speak to Dr. Sahab about it. But what could I do? Even though ‘Householder Yoga.’ his decisions were strong, I always respected his words and thought processes. I never went against his words. But that’s I distinctly remember this one time, when the media wanted to how we both were. We respected each other and worked in take his interview. Dr Sahab as we all know, wasn’t comfortable perfect harmony towards our mission. being on camera. That’s when he decided that I would be the face of the Institute and give all the interviews, and not him. He I am still playing my role as the ‘Householder’ Yogi and I have liked to call himself a ‘Sanyasi’ Yogi and me a ‘Householder’ given my all to the Institute. Teaching Yoga as a way of life in a Yogi. Together, we would work cohesively, spreading the completely practical and approachable way, exactly like Dr. knowledge and awareness of Yoga. He would insist for me to Sahab would have wanted, wouldn’t he? dress up like a householder, for me to relate and connect to the householders. He would even remind me to wear ornaments and be as ‘normal’ as I could. When I had the additional responsibilities of giving interviews and shooting with TV channels, I wasn’t able to manage my household chores along with that. That’s when Dr. Sahab stepped in and took up some of the household work to help me through it. I then convinced him to get the assistance of a maid. He only had one condition, that she would train under me so that she would understand the responsibilities correctly. He was Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra accommodative but also very particular and meticulous. Director, The Yoga Institute. 5 YOGASATTVA FROM THE TEACHER’S DIARY MINDFULNESS GUIDELINES FROM THE BUDDHA A few lines from the nal discourse To the orange and yellow robed bhikkhus For the last meeting with their venerable Buddha.... Ananda, the chief disciple, says... The evening sun, bright and orange Multitude of bhikkhus in their orange and yellow robes Sitting in quiet repose in their asana... Waiting for their Lord and master... Buddha, also called the Sakhya Muni, To start his evening discourse.... Seven long years it took my beloved master, says Ananda. To master the art of supreme mindfulness Ananda recounts this nal sharing of the Venerable Buddha.... And this evening he was going to share with his beloved ....and the Lord Buddha, with yellow and orange coloured bhikkhus photons Thronged under the ery orange shafts of light Floating around his Noble Head... Filtering through the leaves of trees Mindfully, he places his sandals neatly on the steps As mindfully, they listened to his every word...says Ananda. Mindfully, he removes his shawl, folds it... Arranges his robes mindfully.. .... And mindfully sits in Padmasana. And Buddha said ...beloved bhikkhus, start watching the breath .... For nine counts initially Watch the breath, coming in and going out, There’s a hushed silence, bhikkhus watching Like a watchman who sees people coming in and going out. Their beloved master, sitting mindfully... Just watch the breath, the short breath, the long breath, Then he closes his eyes and mindfully watches his breath... mindfully The inow of air soft. Prolonged. Until the breath itself seems to stop and the mind seems to And the outow long and prolonged too. dissolve. Soon he will be in Samadhi...the samadhi of mindfulness, says Ananda. ... Anapanasati, explained by Ananda, Who had mastered the art with the venerable Buddha, continues To explain, the art of mindfulness... .....and my venerable master, mastered the art of mindfulness Over a long period of disciplined meditation on mindfulness Watching the inow and outow of breath At the tip of his nose, until, his breath-and-mind fused...In Samadhi. Harold Sequeira ... 6 YOGASATTVA YOGA MD Ayurveda and Yoga yurveda and Yoga go hand-in-hand. The roots of healing. These are some of the similarities between these two Ayurveda are far deeper than Yoga’s Patanjali. There sister sciences. Aare mentions of Ayurveda in the Rigveda and Atharveda.