Yoga Amrutam , Classical Yoga Studio

21/06/2025

Maharishi patanjali says , the efforts (yatna) that you must put into the practice (abhyasa) are dirgha kala ( for a long time ), nairantarya( without break), satkarya(with absolute dedication) and asevito( regular and systematically). This kind of devoted practice will create a dradha bhumi ( a firm and strong foundation) for all round growth and progress .
Happy yoga 🧘 day to all my dear yog sadhak .

10/10/2023

21/06/2023

Yoga amrutam exclusively celebrate 9th international yoga day with singing bowl meditation.
Step into the enchanting world of singing bowls and let their sound vibrations take you on a journey of deep relaxation and healing. For the longest, these exquisite instruments have been used to promote calmness, clarity, and focus. The soothing tones produced by the bowls can reduce stress and anxiety, improve mood, and enhance overall well-being. Simply strike the bowl or run a mallet around the rim to create a harmonious resonance that will transport you to a place of tranquility.

28/05/2022

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling,never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch it and move with it .

20/05/2022

✍️✍️7 Miracles of Right Breathing in Yoga



Yoga uses breathing to awaken energy, help us breathe properly and understand how to control our own breathing. Scientific researchers have noted the benefits of breathing properly while practicing yoga movements will help bring a lot of miraculous benefits.
🧘🧘‍♂️ Detoxify
One of the health benefits of deep breathing is detoxification in the body. A deep breath helps to release toxins from the body, whereas if you take a shallow breath, other organs have to work overtime to release the toxins.
🧘‍♂️🧘 Stress relief
Have you had a stressful day at work? Have a problem that makes you angry? Deep breathing helps relieve tension and relax muscles. Try taking deep breaths while working.
🧘🧘‍♂️ Inner organ massage
We often pay a fortune to massage the outside of the body without realizing that the internal organs also need to be "pampered". When you take a deep breath, you can easily massage your internal organs.
🧘‍♂️🧘Enhance blood production
A deep breath can increase the supply of oxygen to your body, increasing hemoglobin in the blood. Increasing blood production will help in the normal functioning of the body.
🧘🧘‍♂️ Fights respiratory problems
Deep breathing helps protect the body against respiratory problems. Deep breathing expands the lungs and increases lung function. So the lungs become healthy and immune to disease.
🧘‍♂️🧘Weight control
There are many ways to manage your diet and exercise to stay in shape. Did you know that deep breathing also helps in weight control extremely effectively? Because when practicing Yoga, the oxygen in the breathing process will increase, making the metabolism faster, leading to faster fat digestion.
🧘‍♂️🧘Strengthen the nervous system
Deep breathing is also beneficial for the nervous system. Extra oxygen will nourish and strengthen the brain, spinal cord and all the nerves that spread throughout the body.
🧘🧘‍♂️Make your heart healthier
Deep breathing helps keep your heart healthy. First, deep breathing helps the lungs work more efficiently, which means more oxygen in the blood gets to the lungs. Therefore, the heart will not have to work too hard to deliver enough oxygen to the tissues. Second, deep breathing will help blood circulate better, so your heart can get a little rest.
🧘‍♂️🧘Better Concentration
Life is often stressful and we are always looking for ways to clear our minds. Deep breathing helps you feel relaxed and easy to focus on the next task.
🧘🧘‍♂️Increased stamina
Deep breathing also increases metabolic rate. This means that our body will be able to absorb more nutrients, thereby producing more energy and increasing your endurance in all activitie

18/04/2022

“It is important for you to understand that as you progress in yoga, your practices need to become more and more simple. When you are starting yoga, your practices can be complex. ​​​​​​​​
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At that time, you are learning yoga, so you go through the whole range. That is the learning process, but when it comes to personal sadhana then it is not the complex practices of yoga that you need to do but the simple ones, to realign and balance the forces in the body and mind. ​​​​​​​​
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Simplicity in asanas refers to the selection of practices with regard to the requirements of the body. Generally speaking, your body requires only a few major movements: stretching or traction, such as in Tadasana; twisting, which is seen in Kati Chakrasana; bending from side to side, that is Tiryak Tadasana; forward and backward bends, which are seen in Surya Namaskara. If your practice covers this range of movements, it is enough for a normal practitioner. ​​​​​​​​“
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12/04/2022

“One way of taking care of our suffering is to invite a seed of the opposite nature to come up. As nothing exists without its opposite, if you have a seed of arrogance, you have also a seed of compassion. Every one of us has a seed of compassion. If you practice mindfulness of compassion every day, the seed of compassion in you will become strong. You need only concentrate on it and it will come up as a powerful zone of energy. Naturally, when compassion comes up, arrogance goes down. You don’t have to fight it or push it down. We can selectively water the good seeds and refrain from watering the negative seeds.”

30/03/2022

“Hatha yoga begins with the practices of purification, shatkarma, to detoxify the body. After the purification, you move into the practices of asana, then into pranayama. The asanas of Hatha yoga are dynamic and the pranayamas of Hatha yoga develop control over the breath and respiration. Mudras and bandhas are also part of Hatha yoga, through which you develop the skills to direct the energy flow. This is followed by practices of concentration to focus the mind. All this constitutes Hatha yoga.​​​​​​​​
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When this much is perfected, you come to raja yoga. It is like finishing primary school before entering secondary school. Just as there are several classes in primary school, there are several steps in Hatha yoga. If a student of the first class says, “I want to join the secondary school”, will the teacher allow it? No. However, the hypocrites in spiritual life do allow it. So those who are sincere in spiritual life must understand that Hatha yoga has to be perfected first and then one can move into raja yoga.”

17/02/2022

The five koshas

According to the science of yoga, there are five koshas or sheaths which surround this body in much the same way as the inner core of an onion is covered by layers of skin. Only, in the case of the koshas, each subsequent kosha is more subtle and imperceptible to the naked eye than the one preceding it. One can say that these koshas can only be realized with the opening of the inner eye, in the state of meditation.

Annamaya kosha

The first is the annamaya kosha, which is the physical sheath made from food. Anna means food. The grain which you eat is called anna and the body which is composed of food is one that you can touch, see and feel. It is the substratum for the subtler koshas, which also assume the shape and size of the body.

Pranamaya kosha

Subtler than that which is not visible to the naked eye is the pranamaya kosha, which instead of food is made of prana or energy. You ought to know that our body is enveloped by this field of prana and when you leave this room, you will carry it out with your body. Although you can't see it, the pranamaya kosha follows you wherever you go.
However, if you raise your awareness by the practices of yoga, then you will see the pranamaya kosha in the form of an aura which surrounds the body. Many people are born with this natural gift, where they are able to read the aura of people and determine what is in store for them, because this aura keeps changing all the time according to the state of health you are in that time. Even your moods influence the pranic aura. The phrases 'green with envy' or 'red with rage' are just a few indications of the vibrations emitted by the aura according to our mental state.

Manomaya kosha

Beyond the pranamaya kosha, this physical body is surrounded by a more subtle energy which is purely mental in nature, known as the manomaya kosha. It is at the level of manomaya that the chatushtaya antahkarana, comprising manas or mind, buddhi or intellect, ahamkara or ego, and chitta or memory, springs up and begins to perceive, cognize, record, understand, rationalize, discriminate, accept, reject and compare, to name only a few of the myriad functions that it performs effortlessly in our lives. Without the manomaya kosha we would be no better than the vegetables sitting on our kitchen shelf!
This kosha is the seat of para or empirical knowledge. It beholds the world around, and although an instrument of inner consciousness, it has the capacity to externalize the awareness as well as withdraw it inwards. When it is under the sway of the senses, it is fully occupied with the external impulses that it receives from the world of smell, sound, light, colour, touch and taste. But there are times when, dissatisfied with the finite nature of these experiences, the mind propels inwards, and at that time it receives the impulses of the self which recharge and rejuvenate the manomaya kosha.
This happens in the state of meditation too, and that is why meditation broadens the horizons of the mind, sharpens the intellect, brings the ego in tune with nature and strengthens the chitta.

Vijnanamaya kosha

Beyond manomaya or mind is the sheath of intution or the vijnanamaya kosha, and needless to say it is subtler than all the preceding koshas. The Taittiriya Upanishad elucidates the existence of the vijnanamaya kosha in the following manner: "Separate from the self comprised of mind, there is another inner self comprised of intuitive knowledge. This one is also like the shape of a person like the preceding koshas. Faith is its head, Tasya shraddhaiva shiraha; righteousness its right wing and truth its left wing, hritam dakshinah pakshaha satyamuttarah pakshaha; yoga is its soul, yoga atma; maha its foundation, maha puchham pratishtaha. "

Satsangs on Yoga
Swami Satyasanganananda Saraswati

28/01/2022

Pranayama

After completing the asanas two breathing techniques need to be practised. The first is nadi shodhana, alternative nostril breathing. The breath plays a very important role in health. Normally, a human being takes between eleven and fifteen breaths per minute. The normal inhalation and exhalation is between three to five seconds, but when we lengthen our breathing pattern, we inhale and exhale slowly and deeply, which allows the air to remain in the lungs for a longer period. It facilitates the process of oxygen absorption and purification of the blood.
Alternative nostril breathing is to be done in the morning. The system is simple. You breathe in and out for a specified number of seconds, say five seconds for the incoming breath and five seconds for the out going breath. If five seconds is too little, it can be increased to seven seconds. If that is too little, increase it to ten seconds. You inhale for ten seconds through the left nostril and exhale for ten seconds through the left nostril, inhale again through the right and exhale through the left. For this breathing technique to be effective and to allow the body to separate the gases from the air and to absorb the oxygen, you need to practise a minimum of ten rounds.
The second breathing practice is bhramari pranayama, humming bee breath, which increases the output of melatonin and relaxes the nervous system. The cerebral activities undergo a transformation, the beta activity of the brain changes into alpha, and into theta. It is the most effective technique for removing psychological tension and stress. It is very good for office workers, who can even practise it in the bathroom. Do it about ten times. Also practise it before going to sleep at night and you will find the quality of sleep changes. There will be deeper relaxation and you will feel much fresher when you wake up. These are the two pranayamas we advise for normal healthy people, not more.

Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
Yoga Sadhana Panorama Vol. Five

22/01/2022

Gym psychosis
When there is a gym psychosis, then you will work on the legs in the standing poses. You will work only on the legs to develop the muscles of the legs, strengthen the joints and make the tendons and cartilages function well. If you do standing poses in the yoga paradigm then you will work holistically. The legs will be connected to other parts of the body which are the loci of various parts of the mind. Your legs are connected to your brain. Your legs are connected to your senses, your eyes and ears. These connections are missing when there is action-o-holism. You could be watching television and doing your leg workout. You could be listening to something and then doing your leg exercises because you have to do 10 or 50 or 100 movements. You work only on a particular part of the body and that is not total involvement.

Whereas while doing an asana you connect all aspects of the body – skin, flesh, muscles, bones, tissues, tendons, cartilages – and you also try to connect the various aspects of mind: the motor mind, conative mind, cognitive mind, sensitive mind, supersensitive mind, reflective mind, super reflective mind, memory, intelligence. All those aspects will be involved in your workout on the legs when you do standing poses as yogasanas. That is why everything gets evened out – the mind, the senses and the body. There will be a unified state.

Iyengar yoga,maida vale blog.

22/01/2022

The aim of yoga is to take one from the impure aspect of mind towards the pure aspect ,from the state of scattered desire to a state of balance desire, where the desire become positive constructive and self elevating, where the desire does not limited to the external environment only, but also encompasses the inner dimension by transcending the impure mind and obtaining purity of mind and by awakening the faculties of the pure mine one attains transcendence or, Mukti .one must go from the impure to the pure and awaken faculties of the pure mind in order to attend transcendence.