Hatha yoga translates as "sun-moon", respectively, it is the center of all yogic teachings. Sivananda yoga is one of the branches of hatha yoga. It is the totality of all the styles of yoga. Here you will learn asanas, and mantras, and religions with study of holy scriptures.
Swami Sivananda, the founder of the direction, created a home yoga, which is convenient and easy to comprehend within his home. It is because of its convenience and universality that Svivananda Swami Yoga has become unusually popular in the West.
Exercises
Sivananda yoga is also called therapy. The reason is simple - in the classroom you will heal your body in a complex way. One has only to look at the basic elements of yoga therapy and swami siwananda:
- correct technique of asanas;
- food (vegetarianism);
- right breathing (pranayama);
- relaxation (in shavasana);
- spirituality (study of scriptures).
And training in sivananda yoga always begins with Surya Namaskar - greetings of the sun.
- Close your eyes, inhale, let air through the soles of your feet. Exhale - the feet relax, the air goes to the ground. Inhalation - the vertex is stretched upwards. Exhalation, inhale - hands through the sides up, stretch well. Exhale, inhale - lower your hands, close your hands, stretch your arms up slightly bent back, tilt forward with an even back. Reach your hands to the floor, bend your legs, then straighten and pull back your right leg. Inhale - take your left foot back.
- Lower the body, holding on to the hands and toes of the fingers. Go to the full stop, pull the pelvis up, and on inhalation go to the dog's pose. Hands and legs are stretched, the pelvis is the highest point of the body, the back is flat, the head looks down.
- Pushing your hands against the floor, on a deep breath, we lung out with your left foot, your shoulders are pulled back, your hands rest against the floor. Substitute the right foot. Feet together, hands on the floor, dragging down. For relaxation, you can bend your knees several times.
- We rise upwards with an even back, hands through sides downwards - exhalation. Inhale - arms up, exhalation - crouched, palms in front of the chest. Back down, stretch forward and bend down.
- Hands lowered to the floor, bend our knees inhale, unbend - exhale. The left leg goes into lunge, inhale, the right leg is pulled back.
- We bend our arms in the elbows, go as close as possible to the floor, then we bend in the back - the dog's pose is facing upwards. From here, lifting the pelvis up, go to the dog's pose with the muzzle down.
- Lunge forward with the right foot, look up. We connect straight legs, hands on the floor, bend and unbend our knees.
- Raise your hands up, join hands, stretch the spine, bend your knees, on the exhale, bend back, then stretch forward and down.
- The right leg goes into a lunge, we substitute the left leg, we leave in a pose of a dog a muzzle upwards. Bend down in the back and go to the dog face down. Lunge with the right foot, connect the legs and straighten them. On inspiration, go up and tilt the body back, put your hands down.
- On exhalation, lean forward, put your hands on the floor, pull back the left leg, substitute the right one, bend and go out into the dog with the muzzle up. On exhalation we raise the pelvis and go out into the dog with the muzzle down.
- Lunge left foot, pull up the second leg, climb up.
- Connect hands together and meditate .