I do hot bikram, from time to time, and it always gets me to a higher level:) How about you?
Hi! I have tried different kinds but I’ve settled in for Ashtanga. Can’t even explain in words how beneficial this type of yoga is to me!
Hi Wartica,
This is what Bikram yoga is all about. Through Bikram exercises you get oxygenated blood to all parts of your body, this will restore your system to work in a healthy manner. When this takes place, you will have proper weight, toned muscles, and a sense of well being.
Raja yoga. But it would be like the sun without the moon without Hatha imho
Cheers
Raja yoga, Tantra and Vedanta
The most beneficial?
I have found (for me) that the most beneficial Yoga is the practice that teaches more than asana, the practice that has the energy of lineage behind it, the practice that advocates alignment, safety, and effect, the practice that moves me away from dark and toward light, the practice that allows me to be my true self in the real world…this is the Yoga that I have found most beneficial.
gordon
i.e. yoga is simply an attempt to reveal the illusion of separation, union from that which one has never been separate.
Succinct and well phrased.
I may not have used “attempt” but instead substituted “process”. One feels achievement-oriented while the other feels experiential. But that is me.
gordon
[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;80345]The most beneficial?
I have found (for me) that the most beneficial Yoga is the practice that teaches more than asana, the practice that has the energy of lineage behind it, the practice that advocates alignment, safety, and effect, the practice that moves me away from dark and toward light, the practice that allows me to be my true self in the real world…this is the Yoga that I have found most beneficial.
gordon[/QUOTE]
Well said.
Karma yoga makes me feel like very good also
Cheers
Peace
[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;80350]Succinct and well phrased.
I may not have used “attempt” but instead substituted “process”. One feels achievement-oriented while the other feels experiential. But that is me.
gordon[/QUOTE]
Pondering (a frolic in conceptual nonsense): As I trace backwards my desire for ?achievement? lead me to yoga asana and after benefits exceeded physical expectations interest piqued into researching/practicing the remaining 7 limbs outlined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali which than prodded me towards a read of the Bhagavad Gita and more explorations/practice of Raja, Karma, Bhakti, Tantra, Jnana (Advaita Vedanta) yoga?s. The karmic action took place due to a burning ?desire? fueled by ?thoughts reflecting though my mind arising spontaneous from ?awareness? outta the ?Absolute? for no apparent reason i.e. it doesn?t seem as though I had anything whatsoever to do with it, nada. Although the actions and events came from cause and effect it was an instinctive happening beyond which I then mistakenly saw as a doer. No two paths are every the same yet yoga is based on thousands of years human trial and error (?attempts?/?experiments? in human similarities) that evolved into a ?process??however Truth has no form or name while religions/philosophies/yoga?s/non-dualism are powered by rituals, rules, skillful techniques, comprehensive methodologies and concepts but it seems all notions in human consciousness are preconceived conceptual nonsense in ignorance; we?re simply dancing with words, perceptions and pointing to the moon while everything happens for no apparent reason as our bodies near the inevitable corpse. Even with exposure from direct experience it doesn?t seem possible that the finite human mind can transmit in limited language an approximate intellectualization of the infinite which lies beyond the mind. Revelations into the illusion of human suffering is obviously a happening therefore it seems wise to stay open, explore, examine and validate those certain questions only you alone can answer. So yes it seems more about stepping out of the way than ?attempting? a happening as the ?process? occurs.
My fav is Dyana yoga. Hatha is good too.
Raja yoga is the greatest among all others
Any path that removes illusion or broadening our consciousness is good. No path is better than the other How could it be? it all depends on the person what he/she is ready to receive and how broad consciousness there is to start with. what is best for person A is not best for person B at this moment. So this impermanence shows us no path is better than the other unless viewed from our own mind at exact this moment. Then it can seem to be better paths.
What would be considered to be A “bad” path in the minds of other with a good teacher is better than the superior path with a “bad” teacher.
The best path for you is what you experience now. Learn from it.
It makes sense that dispositions are different therefore paths will be different hence Karma, Jnana, Bhakti, Raja yoga; you may have a temperament towards one or more but eventually all of them will be touched on:
?Karma Yoga: Nobody can live in a body and the world without doing actions, even an ascetic living in a Himalayan cave has to do some form of actions.
Jnana Yoga: While Jnana Yoga deals with knowledge, wisdom, introspection and contemplation, everybody has a mind and at some point will need to examine it, reflection.
Bhakti Yoga: All people will experience emotions such as love, compassion and devotion at points along the journey.
Raja Yoga: Everything and nothing operates off the backdrop of so called stillness/silence and will need to be experienced thus touching on Raja Yoga, meditation.?
Yoga has been and will always be only YOGA.
What kind of yoga is a question for us, the six blind men. When Lord Krishna was asked this question, he said “to a mother, all kids are alike” .
We are designed such that we can’t relate with any object unless we cognize, and we can cognize only by defining and distingiushing. Thus, we see many in place of one.
When we say ‘power-yoga’ we enlarge the apparent results, with ‘ashtanga yoga’ we enlarge the process/ methodology and in ‘Bikram yoga’ we enlarge a person. In the end, in each case, we marginalize yoga and ironically feel happy to have found the ‘right kind’.
[QUOTE=wartica;80288]I do hot bikram, from time to time, and it always gets me to a higher level:) How about you?[/QUOTE]
hahaha:)) i heal people who got hurt in Bikram using Yoga Therapy approach:)