Nithya yoga - For the Body, Mind and Beyond yoga* is not about physical fitness alone. It is also to help prepare the body for realizing the aim of uniting body, mind and spirit. Nithya yoga is the technique designed in the body language of Patanjali for this uniting. In the same manner as we spoke about Nithya Dhyaan amongst meditations, Nithya yoga is the yoga for the jet age. What is yoga? Patanjali, the father of the ancient science of yoga, says at the very start of Patanjali's yoga Sutras, the foundational scripture of yoga: yogaha chitta vritti nirodhaha He says, yoga is the cessation of the mind. Understand, it doesn't mean that yoga ends with the cessation of mind, rather that yoga begins where the mind ends.

Actually, yoga never ends, it can only start. It is a continuous happening. yoga - Literally means uniting of body-mind-spirit. To understand how yoga is a continuous happening, we need to understand this important truth: whatever is happening is auspicious. Be very clear, every experience raises your consciousness and makes you more mature. Even losing your wealth gives you some maturity. Losing your health gives you some understanding. When you are able to internalize this truth, you suddenly see life as a wonderful happening every moment. A small story: There was once a ship sailing in the ocean. Suddenly, the captain of the ship saw bright lights ahead and rushed back to warn that ship to move out of the way. He quickly announced, Please divert your course fifteen degrees north to avoid a collision.

A voice spoke back, We recommend that you divert your course fifteen degrees south to avoid a collision. Now the captain of the ship got angry and replied in a proud and threatening way, This is the largest ship in the country. We are accompanied by three destroyers, defense equipment and many support ships. yoga begins where the mind ends. I demand that you change your course fifteen degrees north or counter-measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship. The voice replied in a straight tone, We are a lighthouse! Understand, Existence is happening continuously and guiding you also so that whatever happens to you does so in the best possible way. Just fall in tune with it, that is the best course! yoga is a path to fall in tune, just like tuning a radio to a higher frequency! The word yoga literally means uniting.

Patanjali – founder of yoga Patanjali is the founder of the yoga system. He was the first master who created a clear, scientific, logical system to reproduce the experience of enlightenment. Patanjali was the first master, or I can say the spiritual navigator, who created the map and gave complete directions to enlightenment. He created clear-cut directions, step by step formulas to reproduce the experience of enlightenment. Just as scientists create a formula to reproduce the understanding of the outer world phenomena, Patanjali created a beautiful formula, a technology, to reproduce the understanding of the inner world, of enlightenment. Raghupati Yogi – master of yoga I had the great fortune to be around a living master of yoga, Yogiraj yogananda Puri, also called Raghupati Yogi. He had mastered the whole science of yoga as discovered by Patanjali.

He had mastered all aspects of yoga including the physical aspect of bending the body into various postures called asana* or Hatha yoga, working with prana or the life energy, working with the mind, working with visualization power, working with emotions and all the dimensions of yoga. He had a deep insight into the core truths of yoga. Only the person who has experienced the consciousness of Patanjali can bring Patanjali back to life. I had the great fortune to be with such a master who had experienced that consciousness or the inner space of Patanjali. He had amazing strength and unimaginable physical power that he expressed so casually. He would tie an iron rope around his chest and exhale completely, then he would inhale and the iron rope would break into pieces! Usually a logical mind cannot accept or understand that all this is possible, but this great yogi made everything possible.

I had the good fortune to be around him and see him levitating, not once but at least twenty times. Asana - Physical posture and one of the eight paths of yoga in Patanjali's Ashtanga yoga. Asana must be stable and comfortable. He would inhale deeply and hold the breath. The moment he did that, the body would lift from the ground like an inflated balloon! From the age of three to thirteen, I had the fortune to be at his feet, under his guidance and care. Every day from morning until noon for at least four to five hours a day, he would make me do all the traditional yogic techniques like various asanas* , neti* and dhauti* where I would have to swallow a long cloth to clean the intestines and the internal system! Just move the body with the intention and get the result! On some days, Raghupati Yogi would ask me to sit still and be very peaceful, to meditate on stillness, peace and tranquility.

Then after ten minutes, he would suddenly tell me to stand up and run around the entire temple as fast as I could! He would make me bend this way and that way. In the temple where he would teach me yoga, there were twenty to thirty pillars. He would make me climb every stone pillar and come down. And I had to use only one hand to climb the pillars and come down! For whatever purpose you move I would your body, that ask him why memory gets he was making completely me climb all recorded in your the pillars, body and mind. because I couldn't find any books or any sutras* saying climbing pillars was a part of yoga! He said a beautiful thing, For whatever purpose you bend your body or move your body, that memory and idea will become completely inserted or completely recorded in your body and mind.

It was a very shocking revelation! He said, with any intention that you move your body, bend your body, or make your body active, and that intention, that purpose, will be recorded into your body, that samskara will start expressing in your body. Today, especially in the West, there has been too much connection of disease and asanas* as in for this disease, you have to do that asana, for this problem you have to do that technique. Understand, doing asanas for solving a disease is not the purpose of yoga! When you think of a disease and do yoga with that thought in your mind, you are actually pushing the imprint of the thought of that disease into your system! Asana - Physical posture and one of the eight paths of yoga in Patanjali's Ashtanga yoga.

Asana must be stable and comfortable. Neti - Nasal cleansing technique of yoga. Dhauti - A yogic practice of cleansing intestines. Sutras - Spiritual techniques offered in epigram form. Your body itself is made out of your Raghupati memory. Yogi says, any asana practiced, or any physical movement practiced for some purpose or with some intention, will create that effect in your body. He says that this is possible even with ordinary sitting. If you strongly believe that by sitting you will have health and you just sit for health, you will see health simply happening in you. Understand, your body itself is made out of your memory. Your mind, what you think of as you, makes up the building blocks of your body. Every memory is recorded in your muscles.

So when you change the memories, you can simply change your system also. Your system can and will respond to the memory you create. This is how the transformation in the body-mind happens through Nithya yoga. The inner space is cleaned first so the mind falls in tune. Then the body follows as the physical movement is done with the intention. The intention gets inserted into the very muscle memory and cellular intelligence. Scientific evidence We are what our perceptions are. As are our perceptions, so become our actions. As are our actions, so becomes our destiny.This is not a quote from the Upanishad, but from The Biology of Belief, a recent book by Dr Bruce Lipton*, a cellular biologist who has presented a new theory on how cells behave.

We have all been taught that we behave the way our genes are designed. Dr Lipton*, after his research, says the opposite - our genes are designed the way we behave! There have been many recorded incidents of the ability of intention and visualization actually resulting in the intention becoming physical reality itself! For example, people have cured their own fatal diseases like cancer or overcome tremendous physical handicaps by pushing their limits and going beyond what they thought was their capacity. These things have happened through the power of intention which transforms basic cellular memory. This ancient truth is now being proven with the support of modern scientific findings. It has been found that whatever we think deeply and continuously has a profound effect on us physically, mentally and spiritually.

Purpose of Nithya yoga Nithya yoga is my offering to the world. It is the science, the formula, that will give others the same experience of enlightenment which happened in me. The purpose of Nithya yoga is simple to experience and express bliss. With Nithya yoga, the capacity to experience bliss will just explode in your inner space. The capacity to radiate bliss will start happening in your body. Dr. Bruce Lipton - Molecular cellular biologist and author of The Biology of Belief , renowned for his seminal work in relating genetics to conditioning. As of now, your system may not be prepared to stay in that enlightened space, to radiate that same experience continuously. Nithya yoga prepares your body to experience and stay in and radiate the inner bliss, the eternal bliss.

Through Nithya yoga, I am training seekers not only to experience the bliss, but also to stabilize the experience in them, and to radiate that experience continuously in their life. The purpose of Nithya yoga is to help people unclutch and experience eternal bliss. People may also find that physical healing results as a byproduct or side-effect. But, be clear that yoga is for much more than physical health, which is just one benefit of yoga. The emotional benefits are also tremendous but these are also more like byproducts! In the same way, meditation is not just for mental well being. Mental well-being is just one side-effect happening through Nithya yoga is not about adding more meditation. movements to your The goal of life. It is about Nithya yoga is adding more life to making your your movements.

whole life, every activity and every movement transformed into yoga, into bliss. Nithya yoga is conducted today worldwide. Every session of Nithya yoga deepens the uniting of the body-mind-spirit by bringing together all the eight limbs of Patanjali's Ashtanga yoga*, by including all the elements like asana, pranayama *, mudra* etc. Nithya yoga is not about adding more movements to your life. It is about adding more life to your movements. If you are present, if you are aware, and if you are totally in the moment while doing anything, it is yoga – Nithya yoga. Ashtanga yoga - Eight limbs or paths of Patanjali's yoga: yama (discipline), niyama (rules), asana (body postures), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (withdrawal of senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (bliss). Pranayama - Breath control, one of the eight limbs of the Ashtanga yoga of Patanjali.

Mudra - Signs formed with hands during yoga practices, especially meditation, to distribute and seal energy within the body. Eight Steps for a Blissful Life Everyday Living in bliss Blissful Laughter -The eight-fold path of blissful living or - Laughing meditation or Hasya Dhyana Ananda Ashtanga Ananda Ashtanga or Blissful Living is a Meditation simple eight-fold pathway to living enlightenment. These are simple techniques As soon as youthat take you into the experience directly wake up in the morning,without the need to understand and absorb. even before you get up from your bed, laugh for five minutes! Just laughThese are: at yourself. Laugh without a reason! . Blissful Laughter Laughter is a wonderful meditation. Blissful Affirmation technique. The . Blissful Cleansing technique of the ancient Zen tradition of Blissful yoga masters and disciples is to touch no-mind through laughter.

Laughter works whether we Blissful Meditation believe it or not. It has an immediate effect. 6. Blissful Tools With other techniques, we need to practice to see the result, but with laughter we don't need7. Blissful Energy to practice. It happens the first time and every 8. Blissful Chant time. It goes in deep and heals us physically and mentally. Laughter itself is born out of health and creates health. It is an overflowing energy. It releases emotional suppressions. Laughter is the greatest spiritual quality. In laughter we become Buddha, the enlightened one. Buddha is no-mind. When we laugh, we are in a no-mind state for those few moments. Either laughter or our mind can exist, never both at once. When we laugh, for that moment, our mind disappears and we become one with the energy of Existence.

We don't feel our identity. Can we experience ourselves as separate in the peak of our laughter? No! That ceasing to exist is the momentary no-mind and merging with Existence. That is why we need to laugh more. The moments of the self's disappearance can be extended so that we finally lose our identity and live as one with the energy. Laughter is known to heal a number of diseases, especially diseases related to the nervous system and throat. A hearty laugh is said to squeeze out harmful byproducts of cellular functioning. Blissful affirmation -A vow of bliss or Ananda Sankalpa Ananda means bliss. Sankalpa means vow. Ananda sankalpa is a vow of bliss. You can decide to be blissful. It is a choice you make.

In fact it is not even a choice that you make. If you allow yourself to flow in a Abdullah - Abdullah Ansari of Herat, a Sufi master. choiceless manner along with whatever Existence intends for you, you will be in bliss eternally. This attitude of being choiceless can be cultivated. Part of this meditation has its origin with the Sufi mystic Abdullah*. Sufis are the most ecstatic sect ever. Their prayer is gratitude, nothing else. Abdullah* was famous for his ever-smiling face. It is said that even on his deathbed, he was laughing. Finally some of his disciples couldn't help but ask Abdullah* how he was always blissful.