I was looking up Integral Yoga because I have a good friend who is a Yoga Therapist who has trained in Iyengar and Integral Yoga and I saw a Wiki article that said Integral Yoga is Pruna Yoga
Is integral yoga also purna yoga as Wiki states?
I was looking up Integral Yoga because I have a good friend who is a Yoga Therapist who has trained in Iyengar and Integral Yoga and I saw a Wiki article that said Integral Yoga is Pruna Yoga
Is integral yoga also purna yoga as Wiki states?
Not from my perch.
Sorry I did not get back to this much sooner but…thank you.
…and its “purna” which means whole or complete. Not “pruna” which is a region in Spain
[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;75143]…and its “purna” which means whole or complete. Not “pruna” which is a region in Spain :-)[/QUOTE]
So you’re saying a region in Spain is not whole and complete is that it
Sorry about the error I shall be more careful in the future with Purna
Note
Yeah I just looked it up; Pruna is a town located in the province of Seville, Spain
Again, sorry
Nothing to be sorry about. I always appreciate that which generates a sincere smile and hearty laugh.
Though Wikipedia is not to be considered a end-all source, “they” share the following:
"Although Satchidananda is thought to have briefly met Sri Aurobindo, he viewed his brand of teaching as a unique entity. Swami Satchidananda characterized Integral Yoga as “…a flexible combination of specific methods to develop every aspect of the individual: physical, intellectual, and spiritual. It is a scientific system which integrates the various branches of Yoga in order to bring about a complete and harmonious development of the individual.”
This would make it very similar to Sri Aurobindo’s concept of Integral Yoga, which clearly preceded the work of Swami Satchidananda. Sri Aurobindo describes the nature and practice of integral yoga in his opus [I]The Synthesis of Yoga[/I]. As the title of that work indicates, his integral yoga is a yoga of synthesis, intended to harmonize the paths of karma, jnana, and bhakti yoga as described in the Bhagavad Gita. It can also be considered a synthesis between Vedanta and Tantra, and between Eastern and Western approaches to spirituality.
There are also similarities in the symbolism used by Sri Aurobindo and Swami Satchidananda. In addition, Satchidananda’s center was given the name “Yogaville.” (Aurobindo’s “Auroville” had been founded in 1968.)"
Thank You siva and thank you InnerAthlete
It was the Wiki article on Integral Yogathat lead to my original question here
In the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, integral yoga (or purna yoga, Sanskrit for full or complete yoga, sometimes also called supramental yoga) refers to the process of the union of all the parts of one’s being with the Divine, and the transmutation of all of their jarring elements into a harmonious state of higher divine consciousness and existence.
Satchitananda may have met Sri Aurobindo briefly, but his teacher and spiritual master was Swami Sivananda who also named him. In terms of hatha (asana), they are very similar: Integral being a watered down rearrangement of the basic Sivananda/Vishnu Devananda series, which he did to make it easier for more people.
He said: “The truth is one. The paths are many?”
…which always disappointed me, because some are simply more direct than others. He wasn’t concerned with direct, but more so with love and devotion.
siva
Aurobindo’s basic difference is the concept that man will be surpassed and that the process of mindful evolution of the being requires bringing light into matter. Stating it as such is to synthesize a universe into a thimble:-)