Monday, 25 January 2016

Yoga and Circus

Yoga goes on changing its stature, style, form and manners as time psses by. She has been embellished with newer costumes and make-ups, and the semi clad Yoga Beauty struts on the ramps; while the good old spectators watch her cat-walk awestruck.

Some of the modern Yoga Acharyas have made yoga a Circus. They make their students twist, turn, writhe, roll into a ball like a Porcupine, place both legs on the shoulders and roll over the ground, so that the younger generation has taken it as yet another form of Circus’ or as a preparatory course for their newer art form, the ‘Rock'. (true that a yogi can make all possible movements and postures with his body)

What I have to advise is that, Yoga is not a Circus or Gymnastics even though all these involves body movements. Yoga is a ‘Sasthra’’(Science) proclaimed by the ancient Rishis for the physical and mental wellbeing of mankind.So it is always better to study it in the 'traditional form' so that we can enjoy the full benefit of it.

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