Usually one thinks of yoga, only when one wants to cut flab or is in excruciating pain and feels yoga holds the key to all man-made problems. Yogi Ashwini of Delhi-based Dhyan Foundation, who was in the city, recently said that there is no age to start yoga.
“Yoga can be practised by one and all. Yoga, simply put, is a union in, and union with, all spheres of life. Yoga helps unlock the phenomenal potential that lies hidden in a being,” Yogi Ashwini says.
The yoga guru feels that yoga is an experience and not a subject of the intellect. “Yoga works on all aspects of a person — physical, vital, mental, financial, emotional, psychic and spiritual. Only when all the aspects are in a state of balance does a human being experience liberation, perfect harmony. The aim of yoga is the awakening of the Kundalini for liberation from bondages,” he adds.
On the specific yogasanas that men, women and children could practice, the Yogi says that people from 18 to 80 can practice all yogasanas. “You have to do the asanas the right way under the guidance of a guru. People from any religion can practice yoga. You must love what you do,” the Yogi says.
With many people practising Surya Namaskar, the Yogi says that it's salutation to the sun, and the sun had no religion. “its energy vibrates at innumerable frequencies manifesting in the physical as various food/prana for various living things like trees, leaves, animals and humans. Our sages understood the importance of the phenomenal force of the sun and thus introduced us to the Surya Namaskar,” he says, adding that traditionally, Surya Namaskar is done only twice a day— at sunrise and sunset — as at these two times the ‘Pranic’ frequency of the sun is believed to be most conducive to a person’s state of balance.
Yogi Ashwini also demonstrated 15-minute smokeless Vedic Yagna and asanas and spoke about modern day health issues at the Secunderabad Club.
The article was published in The Hindu
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