YOGA & MEDITATION
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MEDITATION : Duration of the treatment may vary according
to the direction of the doctor and the rates proportionately.
Process may change depending upon the patient's body conditions.
Body massage course and Yoga-Meditation course will be
conducted as per request at a price. For a single pizhichil,
njavarakizhi, thiladhara, sirovasthi etc the rates will
be different. Yoga, the science of man, based on ancient
Indian wisdom and culture, is an art of living a healthy,
balanced, peaceful and contented life. Yoga, being a total
integrated system, studies man in his wholeness - body,
mind and spirit and is integrated to certain principles,
ideas, values, attitudes and a way of life for personal
and social benefits. Conceived by the great sages in their
quest forself-realisation, it has come tobe recognised
during its; long travails from the hermitages to the cities,
as the science of man, a philosophy old life, a code of
conduct, an attitude and an approach, as well as an art
of living which is capable not only of ensuring physical
well-being, mental peace harmony, moral elevation and
spiritual uplift of man but also of transforming man from
his gross animal existence to the sublime heights of divinity.
It must, however be kept in mind that it is a long and
arduous journey calling for perseverance, persistence,
dedication and total surrender. Yoga had recognised and
accepted the importance of the mind and the subconscious
over the total human personality much earlier than modern
psychology did in its present form. Yoga is a stepwise,
stage wise eight fold path to final liberation from pain
and suffering. These steps progressively take us to the
highest state of creativity, of discriminative knowledge
and towards attaining the desired perfection. The eight
steps are : YAMA - Conditional yoga behaviour,personal
and social NIYAMA - Attitude sublimate to yoga norms ASANA
- Discipline of the physical body PRANAYAMA - Control
overionergy through respiratory action. PRATYAHARA - Withdrawal
of the senses inwards through abstraction DHARNA - Concentration
DHYANA - Meditation SAMADHI - Transconsciousness Of these,
the first five, which border on the Psychosomatic Approach,are
referred to as External (Bahiranga) yoga, popularly known
as Hatha Yoga, whilethe latter three, which directly affect
the psyche are known as internal (Antaranga) yoga, popularly
known as Raja Yoga. It is almost impossible to try internal
yoga (Raja Yoga) for the average man before accomplishing
the external one (Hatha Yoga). The respective sequence
of the eight steps as the standard methodology of yoga. |
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