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Thanks again for visiting my website. I wanted to develop this site as a way to introduce yoga and all the benefits it has to offer. I started practicing yoga in 2000. I started my yoga practice to establish a relationship with myself. I began with relaxation and it taught me how the mind, body and spirit come from your emotional, mental, and physical being. I actually learned the tools to heal and center myself as a person. As a child, I was angry, bitter, confused, and hateful due to abuse. I never knew who I truly was as a person. Yoga helped that connection with me through relaxation and meditation. Being able to relax my mind and focus internally to see what my mind, body and spirit needed healed the broken links that had been missing for years. I was able to set aside the negative energy and reincarnate a more positive being by tapping into my higher consciousness. I see myself now as a compassionate, loving, trustworthy and honest person. I take life with stride. I know life will always throw you curves and bumps in the road but it’s healthier to take it with stride and have patience than to stress and worry. I have experienced personally, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after the suicide of my mother May 2001, followed with general anxiety, depression, panic disorder, agoraphobia, hallucinations, night terrors, and worst of all postpartum depression. My goal is to share with others the tools and resources to help them accomplish their success in reflecting on the genuine being of themselves.
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” ~Buddha
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ~Buddha
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”
Like with any exercise, it took practice after practice before I could settle into my inner peace. Mental fitness is as much an important part of your health as physical fitness. Yoga has both mental and physical aspects to it.
NAMASTE~
Kristy Kirk
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"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
~ Patanjali
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Yoga and Religion
Is Yoga a religion? I know alot of people question this. I even did at one point of my life. And the answer is no!! Yoga is contained with religions, not religions are contained within yoga.
According to Swami Jnaneshvara Bharat ~ "Yoga means union. It is the joining together
the aspects of ourselves which were
never divided in the first place.
To say that the word Yoga itself is a religion
makes as much sense as saying
that the words Union or Holistic
are themselves religions.
While Yoga may be in Religions, the many
Yoga practices with body, breath and mind, along
with their transcendent goal of direct experience,
are generally neither characteristic of Religions,
nor typically practiced by the adherents of Religions." Yoga is by far a religion. It is a philosophy that began in India an estimated 5000 years ago. The father of classical ashtanga yoga is said to be Patanjali, who wrote the Yoga Sutra. These scriptures provide a guide for spiritual growth and mastery over the physical and mental body. Yoga sometimes interweaves other philosophies such as Hinduism or Buddhism but it is not necessary to study those paths in order to practice or study yoga. It is, however, a way for people who have different faiths Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, as well as agnostics and atheists, to reach their higher power through their practice in Yoga. Practicing yoga actually has numerous benefits and life-enrichment. Many people practice yoga for its asanas and its physical exercises. Most doctors support the practice of yoga because of the health benefits it gives a person.......More
A true yoga devotee strives to live in a more joyous state of harmony. Body, mind, and emotions are brought in tune with one another and with one’s soul, or spiritual self.
An article written by Ann Pizer, quotes, "By contrast, we can define spirituality as the quest for understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe. Many use organized religion as the conduit for their spirituality, but spirituality can also exist outside the bounds of religion. In other words, spiritual practice is essential to religion, but religion is not essential to spiritual practice.....Yoga can be a spiritual practice, but it is not a religion, because it does not dictate the nature of a God to be worshipped. "
