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What Yoga is About

What is the secret to living a happy, fulfilling life?

The practice of yoga can bring fulfillment on all levels of our being. It can help satisfy our human yearnings and confer a feeling of completeness and wholeness.

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Yoga Brings Fulfillment

Through yoga we can find fulfillment on all levels of our being. On a physical level yoga helps us to be healthy and vital. It brings peace and joy on a mental/emotional level as we learn practices to deal with worry, anxiety and stress. We can transform negative emotional attitudes into happiness and gladness. Yoga helps us contact the immense power, goodness, joy and intuition within our spiritual nature.

Yoga is about fulfilling needs. It turns out we human beings have many similar needs. We are all striving to be happy and have a good life. Yoga helps us realize that we are not separate from one another. We don’t need to live a defensive, anxious life, protecting our life and concerns.  We can be prudent and still live a confident, creative, abundant life.

Yoga teaches that we have five main drives which motivate our behavior:

  • As human beings we need to know and experience truth directly, not just second hand
  • The consciousness within us never wants to be static or stuck — it wants to go on and on
  • We seek pure joy which enriches, transforms, and frees — joy without any pain in it
  • We yearn for a sense of freedom and independence — we are not happy or fulfilled until we feel free
  • We seek to prevail or dominate — yogis transform this lower drive into a drive for self-discipline

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