Best Wishes - India Festival

Amrit Yoga connects yoga practice with its
ancient roots and fundamental principles that
are at the core of all branches of yoga. By
adding the mental and spiritual disciplines of
Raja Yoga, inwardly focused attention and
meditative awareness, Amrit Yoga combines
the strengths of Hatha and Raja Yoga into one
system.
Amrit Yoga can be a powerful extension for
yoga teachers and students from all traditions
who wish to add the spiritual dimension into
their personal practice and professional skills.
It uses the body as an entry point to explore
experience and release psychosomatic blocks
that prevent us from tapping
into the source of the infinite
potential within. It creates new
possibilities for widening the
range of healing modalities and
self-discovery. The concepts
are adaptable to various types
of healing professionals, as well
as for spiritual growth.
Amrit Yoga cultivates inward
focus and meditative awareness
along with the practice of
postures and pranayamas.
Inward focus becomes an
anchor for engaging scattered
attention. Withdrawing attention from internal
and external disturbances (pratyahara)
and focusing on bodily sensations (dharana)
heals the body-mind split, bringing the mind
and body into a harmonious, co-creative
friendship. This internal focus is the single
Best Wishes to
Gujarati Samaj of Tampa Bay
From
Manojkumar Patel M.D., FCAP
Mrs. Ashaben Patel, Viral and Nisha
Board Certified Dermatopathologist
Anatomic Pathology
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
(813) 866-3215
Amrit Yoga
most powerful tool to prevent
chronic unconscious,
unproductive mental dialogues,
images and emotional
reactions. These
unconscious habits
accompany us through
every activity all day long;
the yoga mat is not an
exception. The vigorous
By Gurudev Shri
Amritji
traditions of Hatha Yoga provide powerful
results and are intended to serve as a foundation
for the mental and spiritual dimension of
yoga. Hard work can silence the mind during
vigorous practice, but has no
power to transcend or alter
emotional and karmic patterns
held securely in the unconscious.
Vigorous practice combined
with internal focus
engages the mental and emotional
bodies into the practice
of yoga—expanding its scope
and deepening the experience
of Hatha Yoga many fold. For
your body to be the temple of
the divine, your yoga practice
must harness and harmonize
the conflicting forces and disturbances
that arise from the body, emotions
and mind.
These unconscious
forces keep you divided and fragmented
in your thinking, feeling and doing. The
practice of Amrit Yoga has the power to
engage you totally, absorb you completely,
and integrate you fully in your body, mind,
heart and soul. It empowers you to enter the
experience of unity and ecstasy, which is integral
to the experience of yoga.
Amrit Yoga is a metaphor for life. The skills
of mindful attention and meditative awareness
you develop on the yoga mat extend to
challenges you encounter in life. Painful transition
periods, relationships and crises can
become opportunities and openings for personal
transformation.
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