Friday, June 8, 2012

HATHA YOGA - AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON!

Yoga has become an international phenomenon - overnight it seems. Whichever corner of the globe you may be residing at, you must have heard of yoga. Often time, the word Yoga is being used too loosely and at other times, some people don't even understand the deeper, true meaning of yoga. This article is written in "layman terms" with the intention of shedding some light to the lesser informed folks out there on the subject in the community.

So, what is yoga?

Yoga has many dimensions and basically, when many people are talking about it, they're referring to Hatha Yoga, which are the many, many body postures referred to as Asanas. Asanas in itself has been categorized into different groups with specific results for different peoples' needs.

Admittedly, yoga is not an easy subject to write on, with so much information already out there, but it needs to be written in simple language for all to grasp.

In an article posted on the website, www.abc-of-yoga.com, hatha yoga was by Yogi Swatmarama in ancient India.

(Will continue on this later)    

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