What is Yoga?
The first thing that comes to mind when we hear the word yoga is a person standing upside down or doing a complicated posture. But is that what Yoga really is? When I was growing up I thought yoga was done just to improve flexibility. If you want to bend forward and be able to touch your palms all the way on the floor and make people be in awe of you, then go to yoga classes. Fortunately for me, through my yoga teacher training program I learnt that there is much more to yoga than I ever imagined. It is far more spiritually enriching and physically gratifying to put in simple words. Yoga is more than that. The word yoga was found in the ancient Indian scriptures called the Vedas . Now, you must understand that Vedas were quoted by people called Rishis , who have mastered themselves. Which means they had complete control over their mind or chitta, body or deha and breath or prana. So the Vedic texts reveal that yoga was followed centuries ago. Vedic texts a...