5 Extreme Yoga Videos That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud

January 30, 2019

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Yoga is an important part of the Indian religion of Hinduism. And one can assume that many church church priests are Christians. In any case, they should preach Christianity. And therefore, some of them see a conflict of interest in simultaneously cultivating a religion other than Christianity.

Yoga works in many places as a kind of gym, where the body is stretched and placed in special, often extreme, positions, the so-called “asanas.”

But really, yoga is a set of physical exercises that can be used to reach the Hindu salvation (moksha or samadhi).

This salvation (ie liberation or redemption) is about reconciling with the eternal and getting away from the physical, sensuous world with actions in time and space.

In Hinduism, being here in our physical world is a loss. We are caught by mere preliminary and perishable phenomena by means of chains called karma (the act and its consequence and the bond between the two).

But good or bad karma continues everything where the karma that man has not acted forces man to be reincarnated rather than reconciling with eternity.

Therefore, one must dispose of his karma to be saved. And roughly, yoga is about to “burn” its karma, so you don’t have to reincarnate.

Yoga got its shape under the name Raja Yoga (of some also called Ashtanga Yoga). It was developed enough shortly before Christ’s birth in the work Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.

In Raja Yoga, preparation means much, asceticism (including celibacy), moral living, and study of sacred books.

When one has prepared well by living pretty monk-like, the physical exercises begin, the breathing control and the psyche do not attach to any sensuous things, but gather at one point by meditation – ie. you are in great peace.

The goal is to reach samadhi – a blissful state of mind that the psyche is completely fused with the one point you focus on.

As part of these exercises, one is supposed to have magical abilities – so-called siddhi’s – that is to be able to fly, be able to master, etc. These siddhas, however, are usually not the goal, but a step on the way to the real goal – samadhi.

The philosophy of Raja Yoga is the Hindu philosophy called samkhya. In samkhya, it is believed that there is a radical difference between the material world, prakriti, and the spirit, purusha.

Almost everything in the world is part of the material, even one’s feelings, thoughts, etc. But in itself each human being has the spirit, purusha, which is completely without attributes – perfect without feelings, sensations, memories and thoughts.

The case is then to get “activated” purusha and eg via Raja Yoga realize that one is identical to purusha, a point with no properties. This realization and experience is equal to samadhi, and then you are free.

What you usually think of when using the word “yoga,” however, is Hatha Yoga. It was developed in the late Middle Ages (approximately between the 13th and 15th centuries) and features features of tantra (Indian occultism).

Hatha Yoga is almost a kind of mix of Raja Yoga and basic tantra ideas. The case is in Hatha Yoga to refine and divine prana, the life energy, which is sometimes also called Shakti or kundalini.

This energy will usually appear at the bottom of the spine’s root (or in the lungs) and must be “pulled upwards” along the spine up towards the ice via the yoga exercises. The same applies to a sacred part, the mandible. Bindhu is a point, a spot, a zero that is seen as the core of the universe.

Of course, this does not happen in the physical body, but in a imagined spiritual body inside – “the subtle body.”

But on the way of energy on the way up in the subtle body, some obstacles stand in the way. These are bindings or locks – bandhas – that capture and lock the energy to be sublimated. A central part of Hatha Yoga therefore consists in getting rid of these bandhas via extreme body positions – the ansanas.

There is a wealth of these asanas – the plow, the bow, etc. – see also Wikipedia’s list of poses in Hatha Yoga.

In actual Hatha Yoga, these stretching exercises are combined with respiratory control (pranayama), sometimes a rapid breathing approaching hyperventilation, but ideally it is about completely stopping the breathing.

Of course, both can easily provide oxygen deficiency with the following psychedelic experiences. It can be combined with meditation à la it in Raja Yoga (fixation at one point) and rapid repetition of sacred, tantric syllables – mantras. These exercises must also loosen the bandhas.

A lot of places in the West are yoga reduced to just about the asanas – stretching exercises. In this way, yoga becomes almost a kind of gymnastics, a body training that is supposed to be healthy. You just have to remember that these exercises are not designed to be healthy, but to loosen.