Magnify force of healing with Yoga and Meditation tours in India
Rejuvenate your mind and body and have a spiritual experience with Yoga & Meditation in India, the birthplace of yoga and meditation. Avail of various yoga and meditation packages to the renowned yoga and meditation centers in India and have a great sublime experience of yoga meditation retreat in India for complete relaxation of body & mind.
Yoga is a proved Practice system for the Stimulation and Attainment of health, Wellness and Harmony and Revival of dormant sleeping capacities and Enhancement of Consciousness.
Do you have the desire to pamper yourself and at the same time expand your body and soul? Where you body, spirit and soul rejuvenate... "A spirit free of tension and a body free of illness are the birthrights of each human being."
In order to fulfill this dream, we must do something. During the yoga and meditation tour, you will learn from the wisdom and experience of the Indian culture - Ayurveda and yoga - how to fulfill that dream. You will learn what knowledge do you need and what must you do, in order to know yourself better and to learn love? How can you experience and understand your feelings? Which capacities have you not used during your life? How can you reach a harmony of body and spirit?
Breathing practices, yoga and meditation allow you to discover from inside who you are, what you can do, and how to do it.
Yoga is a very old practice system that developed in India centuries ago. It comprises a set of intellectual and physical practices and describes basically an attitude to life. Yoga - through Indian philosophical teachings - shares how you can free yourself from your physical encumbrances through certain intellectual and physical practices. The word "yoga" comes out from Sanskrit word “Yuj”, the language of the oldest Indian literature and means literally "to join". The yoga is an integrated way that effects itself into the deepest areas of the personality and leads in regular execution to harmony and physical, mental and intellectual balances. Yoga is not a religion nor pure gymnastics, although the physical practices form a focal point.
The Different Yoga Arts (Yoga Ways)
Most contemporary yoga masters recommend the holistic yoga, a combination of the different Yoga practices: Hatha yoga develops the physical body, Kundalini yoga the energy of body, Bhakti yoga the feeling of body, Raja yoga the psyche, Jnana yoga the intellect and intuition to integrate. Karma yoga helps to integrate all in the daily life. So yoga is a veraciously holistic, universal system. Everyone can find out what is most helpful for them.
Hatha yoga is the most widely known part of yoga. This form of Yoga is usually common in the west. It comprises of the body-oriented practices: Asanas, yoga postures; Pranayama, breathing practices; Savasana, deep relaxation techniques. Hatha Yoga also provides advice for a healthy lifestyle, including a vegetarian diet and clothing without artificial fibers.
Asanas - Yoga Postures
Asanas are body practices, in which a certain posture is held for a while. Asanas develop in a gentle way muscle strength, flexibility and body consciousness. Interesting is, how quickly you can achieve progress through yoga with only little exertion. A uniform flexible body with harmoniously developed muscle power is also the prerequisite for health and gracefulness. Through the easy holding of the positions, the blocked life energy (Prana) flows again, the internal healing powers are activated and the internal organs are supplied with enriched blood. Yoga's Asanas are an excellent prevention against illness, and can support and increase the effectiveness of other therapies. In your yoga classes, you will learn different postures of Asanas. The twelve well known Asanas are:
- Shirshanasana (headstand)
- Sarvangasana (shoulderstand)
- Matsyasana (fish)
- Bhujangasana (cobra)
- Dhanurasana (bow)
- Shalabhasana (locust)
- Halasana (plough)
- Ardha Matsyendrasana (spinal twist)
- Paschimothanasana (forward bend)
- Mayurasana (peacock)
- Pada Hasthasana (standing forward bend)
- Trikonasana (triangle)
Pranayama - Breathing Practices
The person breathes about 25920 times on a daily average. The breath is our vital energy source. It is the link between body and spirit. Through breathing, we take in oxygen, and assimilate Prana, life energy. Through stress, tensions, incorrect body postures and bad customs, most persons breathe too flat. The result is little oxygen is getting to their brain and organs, the blood is not rich with oxygen, and the people complain about fatigue. Yoga helps to return to a natural respiration. With special breathing practices, the life energy can always be rebuilt. Through breathing techniques, one can also overcome stage fright, anxieties, depression and irritability.
Savasana - Deep Relaxation Techniques
At the end of every yoga class, there is 10 to 15 minutes of deep relaxation. While lying on your back all parts of the body are relaxed, and ultimately also in spirit. While relaxed, stress hormones are dismantled, the immune system is strengthened, healing processes are boosted, and intellectual strength and tranquility are restored. Complete relaxation does not come at once, but rather with patience and systematic learning.
Other forms of Yoga:
Kundalini yoga is the yoga of the energy. Kundalini yoga describes the astral body with its Chakras (energy centers) and Nadis (energy canals). Kundalini yoga cleans the astral body, strongly increases the energy (Prana) of our life, and opens and harmonizes the Chakras. The powerful Kundalini energy awakes either gradually at a slow pace or spontaneously all at once. The awakening of the Kundalini is connected with many overwhelming and extrasensory experiences, a strong feeling of happiness, enhancement of the consciousness and development of new capacities.
Raja yoga includes mental training and meditation. Raja yoga explains how the human spirit functions, and how we can control it. Practices of the Raja yoga comprise affirmation, visualization, attentiveness, self-observation and the most different meditation techniques.
Jnana yoga is the yoga of knowledge. Jnana yoga is the philosophical part of the yoga. Jnana yoga asks questions such as: Who am I? From where do I come? Where am I going? What is the purport of life? What is actual? What is good fortune? In the Jnana yoga, Karma and Reincarnation are explained and meditation techniques are given, in order to learn the intuitive truth.
Bhakti yoga is the yoga of devotedness and love to God.
Karma yoga is the yoga of the deed. Karma yoga teaches to grasp fortune. Karma yoga teaches how to make correct decisions spiritually, and what is best for you. Karma yoga is also the yoga of the unselfish service. Karma yoga helps to transcend the boundaries of our own Ego and to feel unity with all beings.
With inhalation, we take in oxygen and procure the body energy (Prana or Chi). Breathing out, we relax ourselves and clean the body from metabolic impurities. The lung eliminates 80 percent of toxic substances that build up in the body. Our lungs are used however by most people only to 30 percent of their capacity. While stressed or during anxious situations, the breath tends to go flat. The metabolic wastes from a flat breath impairs our emotional and intellectual life, dulls the soulfulness and reduces the work effort. The yoga practicer through regular implementation will show an increased lung capacity and breathing capacity, a weight reduction, an improved immune system, a decline of the cholesterol level and the blood-sugar level and a pliability of the body. He will become more tranquil and free from anxieties and builds up more self-confidence and self-reliance. Therefore, the performance of yoga causes physical and intellectual as well as mental advantages.
"A gram of practice is better than tons of theory". - Swami Sivananda.
9 Nights / 10 Days
Delhi - Haridwar - Rishikesh - Haridwar - Delhi
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