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The Purpose of Yoga is to Realize Complete Inner Freedom

Readers and Future Students, 8pm Monday 11 February 2008 Let's go over some yoga history basics. Yoga or "Union" comes from the Indus Valley Civilization 2500 BC and it is a process of method of instilling or realizing complete inner freedom. Yoga is associated orginally with Indo-European peoples who settled in the Indian Valley. In the West, it seems we have become obsessed with the physical and mental exercises that we often associate with body perfectionism. (Let us know if you practice yoga for spiritual reasons or others) Yoga spans every conceivable subject. Swami is a word that entitles an individual practicing a tradition or lineage of Yoga that was handed down from Master to student very selectively. The Swami order is considered to be an ascetic order (monks). "Do you want to be master of your destiny? Do not be discouraged in sorrows, difficulties, and tribulations that manifest in ...